Question

Wheat is a staple food in North India. Explain this.

Answer 1

Wheat:

1. India is the second-largest producer and consumer of wheat.
2. Wheat is a rabi crop that is sown at the beginning of autumn and harvested in spring.
3. During the sowing period, it requires cooler temperatures, 50 to 75cm of rainfall in the flowering season until the process of tilling and warmer temperatures during harvest.
4. Since it is grown all over North India, wheat is a staple food for them.