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Food Crops other than Grains - Coggle Diagram
Food Crops other than Grains
Sugarcane
It is a tropical as well as a
subtropical crop
It grows well in hot and
humid climate with a temperature of 21°C to 27°C and an annual rainfall between 75cm
and 100cm
Irrigation is required in the regions
of low rainfall.
Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra,Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh,
Telangana, Bihar, Punjab and Haryana.
. It can be grown on a variety of soils and needs manual labour from sowing to
harvesting.
. India is the second largest producer
of sugarcane only after Brazil.
Oil Seeds
In 2008 India was the second
largest producer of groundnut in the world after china.
In rape seed production India was
third largest producer in the world after Canada and China in 2008.
Main oil-seeds produced in India are groundnut,
mustard, coconut, sesamum (til), soyabean, castor seeds, cotton seeds, linseed and
sunflower
Groundnut is a kharif crop and accounts
for about half of the major oilseeds produced in the country.
Gujarat was the largest producer
of groundnut followed by Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in 2011-12.
Linseed and mustard
are rabi crops.
Tea
The tea plant grows well
in tropical and sub-tropical climates endowed with deep and fertile well-drained soil, rich in
humus and organic matter
require warm and moist frost-free climate all
through the year
Assam, hills of Darjeeling
and Jalpaiguri districts,
West Bengal, Tamil Nadu
and Kerala
In 2008 India was the third largest
producer of tea after China and Turkey.
Coffee
In 2008 India produced 3.2 per cent
of the world coffee production
Arabica variety initially brought from Yemen is
produced in the country
Introduced on the Baba Budan Hills and
even today its cultivation is confined to the Nilgiri in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.