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Agriculture

Question
CBSEENSS10015952

Write the geographical conditions required for the cultivation of wheat. With the help of outline map of India, indicate the wheat growing areas/states.

Solution

Wheat: This rabi crop requires a cool growing season and a bright sunshine at the time of ripening. It requires 50 to 75 cm of annual rainfall evenlydistributed over the growing season.


There are two important wheat-growing zones in the country – the Ganga-Satluj plains in the northwest and black soil region of the Deccan. The major wheat-producing states are Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and parts of Madhya Pradesh.