Crop calendar for rice and other crops
- Besides rice, maize, green gram, blackgram, redgram, groundnut,chillies sweet potato are grown in substantial area under rainfed condition during wet season. Rice-maize, rice-greengram, rice-balckgram, rice-chickpea, rice- field pea, rice- horsegram, rice-groundnut, rice-sesamum, rice-mustard, rice-potato and rice-onionare major cropping systems followed in the agro-climatic zone.
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selection of crop, sowing time, cropping pattern of agroclimatic zone mostly
influenced 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. Bramhani and Baitarani
irrigation project facilitated multiple cropping in the command area. Drought, acidity
and heat stress 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 calendar for different cropping systems of
the agro- climatic zone are presented in sub category of rainfed and irrigated.