Crop calendar for rice and other crops
- Besides rice, ragi, maize, small millets, black gram, sesame and cotton are grown in substantial area under rainfed condition during wet season and wheat in dry season. Rice-rice, Rice-maize, rice-greengram, rice-blackgram, rice-chickpea, rice- field pea, rice-lentil, rice- horsegram, rice-groundnut, rice-sesame, rice-sunflower, rice-mustard and rice-onion are major cropping systems followed in the agro-climatic zone.
- The climatic
condition, rainfall pattern, irrigation sources, soil type, topography and
demand decides the selection of crop, sowing time, cropping pattern of
agro-climatic zone. Availability of work forces, energy sources and socio
economic condition of the farmers influences the sowing window and methods of
crop establishment of a particular region. Hirakuda irrigation projects
facilitated multiple cropping in the command area. Drought, flood and 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 calendar for different cropping systems of the agro-
climatic zone are presented in sub category of rainfed and irrigated.