Crop calendar for rice and other crops
- Besides rice, ragi, maize, small millets, blackgram, redgram and niser are grown in substantial area under rainfed condition during wet season. Rice-maize, rice-greengram, rice-chickpea, rice- field pea, rice-cowpea, rice- horsegram, rice-groundnut, rice-sesamum and rice-mustard are major cropping systems followed in the agro-climatic zone. Beside rice-based cropping systems, turmeric, ginger, sweet potato and cassava are major root and tuber crops are favorable crops of the region.
- The selection of crop, sowing time, cropping pattern of agroclimatic
zone mostly influenced by by local soil type, topography, climatic condition
and The rainfall pattern, soil type, topography, prevailing climate,
availability of work forces, water resources determines the choice of crop,
crop establishment methods, cropping pattern of the agro-climatic zone. Uper Kolab,
Indravati and Nagabali irrigation project facilitated multiple cropping in the
command area. Drought, floods, acidity in wet season and cold stress in rabi
season influences the crop production in the region. Based on ecology, safe
crop growing period and local demands the crop and crop calender for different
cropping systems of the agro- climatic zone are presented in sub category of
rainfed and irrigated.