Crop calendar for rice and other crops
- Besides rice, ragi, maize, small millets are grown in substantial area under rainfed condition during wet season. Irrigated ragi in rabi season is another popular food crop of the agro-climatic zone. Rice-maize, rice-greengram, rice-blackgram, rice-mustard, rice-groundnut, rice-horse gram are major cropping systems seen in the agro-climatic zone. With the availability of photo insensitive short duration varieties helped in growing of summer rice in assured irrigated areas. Drought, cyclone, floods are major abiotic stresses influences the crop production in the region. Among these frequent occurrence of drought of various intensities effects crop production in all the 4 districts of the region during wet season.
- Proper selection of crop and ideal sowing time are key factor for better utilization of precise natural resources for enhancing crop production without degrading the ecology. Availability of water resources, onset of south west monsoon influences the sowing window of a particular crop which ultimately decides the cropping pattern. Based on ecology, length of growing period, types of rabi crop suitable for the area the crop calendars of the agro-climatic zone presented in sub category of rainfed and irrigated.