Answer:
(1)
Rabi season:
(i) Crops sown in winters and harvested in summers.
(ii) Some of the important rabi crops are wheat, barley,
peas, gram and mustard.
(iii)
States growing rabi crops are: Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir,
Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
(2)
Kharif season:
(i) Crops grown with the onset of monsoons and harvested in
September or October.
(ii)
Important Kharif growing states are: Assam, West Bengal, coastal regions of
Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Maharashtra.
(iii)
Crops grown during this season are: rice, maize, jowar, bajra, tur, moong,
urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean.
(3) Zaid
season:
(i) It falls in between the rabi and kharif seasons.
(ii) It's a short season during the summer months.
(iii) Major crops grown are: watermelon, muskmelon,
cucumbers, vegetables and fodder crops.
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