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Agriculture of India
Agriculture of India for UPSC Prelims and Mains, taught in 4 parts. Each part has tables, exam traps, a recap and practice questions, and every paragraph is explained in Tamil.
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Parts of this chapter
Land use, types of farming, cropping seasons and agro-climatic zones
What decides what is grown where; the nine-fold land-use classification; net sown area and cropping intensity; shifting, subsistence, commercial, plantation, mixed, dryland and wetland farming; the kharif, rabi and zaid seasons and regional rice seasons; cropping patterns; the size of farm holdings; and the agro-climatic and agro-ecological zones used in planning.Food crops: rice, wheat, millets, pulses and oilseeds
The growing conditions, seasons and main states of rice, wheat, maize, the millets, pulses and oilseeds; rice in the north-west and the groundwater problem; terminal heat in wheat; nutri-cereals and the International Year of Millets 2023; nitrogen fixation by pulses; edible-oil imports and the oilseed missions; and the long-run trend in foodgrain production.Commercial and plantation crops, horticulture and livestock
Sugarcane and its two belts; cotton, Bt cotton and jute; tea, coffee and rubber as plantation crops; spices and horticulture; livestock, Operation Flood and the White Revolution; inland and marine fisheries and the Blue Revolution.Irrigation, the Green Revolution and new directions
Canals, wells and tube wells, and tanks, and where each dominates; groundwater stress and the CGWB categories; drip, sprinklers and PMKSY; the Green Revolution, its package, its gains and its costs; dryland farming and watershed development; organic and natural farming.Study this in the Upscore app to keep notes, save it for revision, track your practice scores and follow a plan to the exam date. It's free.
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