AGRICULTURE IN INDIA - COMPLETE NOTES FOR ALL EXAMS (MUST WATCH)

Types of agriculture in India

• Subsistence Farming
• Mixed Farming
• Shifting Cultivation/Jhoom
• Plantation agriculture

Soil type which influence agriculture in India are

•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.

Different cropping seasons

•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