Question

Name the major food crops cultivated in India and specify the geographical conditions required for their growth.

Answer 1

Instructions

• List out the major food crops in India
• List out the geographical conditions required for each crop

Solution
The crops that serve as food are called food crops.

• Rice
• Wheat
• Maize
• Millet

​Rice:

• Rice requires high temperature above 25-degree Celsius, high humidity and rainfall above 100cm. And in the areas of less rain, it grows well with the help of irrigation.
• It grows well in alluvial clayey soil.

Wheat:

• Wheat requires a cool temperature during the growing season and bright sunshine at the time of ripening.
• It requires 50 to 75 cm of annual rainfall evenly distributed over the growing season.
• It thrives best in well-drained loam.

Maize:

• Maize requires a temperature between 21 to 27 degrees Celsius.
• Old alluvial soil is the best for its cultivation.

Millet:

• Millet is a hardy crop and rain-fed crop mostly grown in moist areas which hardly need irrigation. And requires high to moderate temperatures to grow.
• It grows well in loamy and sandy soil.