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Jute
Jute is a fibre crop. It is one of the most
important cash crops of Eastern India and
is popularly known as the “golden fibre”
because of its colour. Jute grows well in a
hot and wet climate. West Bengal, Bihar
and Odisha are major producers of jute. Irriga on
Ropes, bags, and carpets are made from Today, farmers are encouraged to use
jute. different methods of irrigation and not
Plantation Crops depend only on the monsoon. Methods
Rubber and spices are plantation crops. include using wells and tube wells. In
They are grown in special farms. South India, rainwater is collected in
tanks and used for irrigation. Canal
Rubber
irrigation is also common in India.
Rubber is a plantation crop. It is produced
from latex (sap) extracted from the trunks Green Revolution
of the trees. Rubber is grown in the states It is a rightly said slogan, “Jai Jawan Jai
of Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Kisan”. The Government of India
Rubber is used to make tyres, mattresses, provided good seeds, modern farming
and footwear. machines, and fertilisers to farmers
during the launch of the Green
Revolution in the 1960. Farmers were
able to grow better and more crops. There
was a huge increase in wheat production
in India in the 1970s due to the Green
Revolution.
Cattle Rearing
Rubber planta on in Kerala
Cattle or livestock are an important part
Spices of a farm. India has 1/6th of the world’s
Ginger, cinnamon, chillies, cloves and cattle population. Oxen and bullocks help
cardamom are grown in the states of farmers plough the land and operate the
Kerala and Karnataka. water wheel. Goats and sheep provide
meat. Animal skin is used to make leather.
Irrigation
We get wool from sheep. Cattle waste is
Irrigation is the artificial use of water to
used as manure and to produce biogas.
grow crops. Agriculture in India depends
Uttar Pradesh is a leader in cattle rearing.
on seasonal rains such as the monsoon.
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