Types of agriculture in India
- Subsistence Farming
- Mixed Farming
- Shifting Cultivation/Jhoom
- Plantation agriculture

•Alluvial
soil
•Regur
or Black soil
•Red
soil
•Laterite
soil
•Desert
Soil
•Mountain
soil
The
major crops in India can be divided into 4 categories
•Food
grains - Wheat, Maize,
•Cash
Crops – Jute, Tobacco
•Plantation
Crops – Tea, Coffee
•Horticulture
crops - Fruits
and Vegetables.
•Kharif
•Rabi
•Zaid
Important revolutions
associated with agriculture
•Green
revolution - Food grains
•Operation
flood - Milk
•Blue
revolution - Fish
•Black
revolution - crude oil
•Grey
revolution - Fertilizer
•Golden
revolution - Fruits
•Silver
revolution - Egg/chicken
Largest producer
FOOD GRAINS
•Rice
– West Bengal / China
•Wheat
– Uttar Pradesh / China
•Maize
– Andhra Pradesh / USA
•Jowar –
Maharashtra
•Bajra -
Rajasthan
CASH
CROPS
•Cotton
– Gujarat / China
•Jute
– West Bengal / India
•Tea
– Assam / China
•Rubber
– Kerala / Thailand
•Sugercane - UP/ Brazil
HORTICULTURE
Apple
– Jammu & kashmir
Mango
- Maharashtra