Fact Sheet: GI Protected Rice Varieties of India

The major GI Protected varieties of India are as follows: Navara Rice (Kerala) This rice variety is grown in Kerala and its cultivation. Palakkad in Kerala is the main land of Navara rice. This rice variety has not only nutritional ..

Various Rice Cropping Patterns in India

With regard to the cropping patterns, India has varied climatic regions and rice is grown in different patterns as discussed below: Rice-Rice-Rice Pattern Under this pattern, three rice crops are grown in same field in one year. This is also ..

India’s Major Crops: Rice

Rice (Oryza sativa), a member of grass family (Poaceae) is a tropical plant associated with the wet and humid climate.  It is an important staple food crop for more than 60 per cent of the world people. Important Facts about ..

Trends in Foodgrain Production in India

Food Grains include rice, wheat, maize, coarse cereals and pulses. As per 3rd Advance Estimates, the estimated production of major food crops during 2016-17 is follows: Total Food grains  –  273.38 million tonnes (record) of which: Rice – 109.15  million tonnes (record) Wheat ..

Factors Affecting Cropping Patterns

The cropping patterns may be affected by several factors and interplay of these factors. Some of these include physical and technical factors, economic factors, government agrarian policy, improvements in technology, availability of agricultural inputs and facilities etc. Physical Factors Affecting ..

Various Types Crops and Farming Systems in India

Farming system represents the crops, cropping systems as well as other agriculture related enterprises such as animal husbandry, fisheries etc. for optimally utilization of the available resources and maximising the remuneration. It also takes into consideration the crop residues recycling in the ..

Rice-Wheat Cropping System: Features and Issues

The Rice-wheat cropping system is India’s most widely adopted cropping system practiced on an estimated area of around 11 million hectares. This system is prevalent in Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP) and is predominant in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Bihar, West Bengal, ..

Various Types of Cropping Systems in India

India is a land of multiplicity of cropping patterns and systems. In the previous section, we have already discussed about different types of cropping patterns. The cropping pattern becomes a cropping system when we consider different factors of farm production, ..

Types of Cropping Patterns

Cropping pattern refers to proportion of area under different crops at different points of time. It also indicates the time and spatial arrangement or sequence of crops and / or fallow in a particular land area. This implies that any ..

Difference between Niti Ayog and Planning Commission

Planning Commission was an advisory body, and so is Niti Ayog. But the key difference between them is that while the former had powers to allocate funds to ministries and states; this function will be now of finance ministry. Niti ..