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Which crop is grown in the kharif season in India?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Rice
Rice is the principal kharif crop. Kharif crops are sown with the onset of the southwest monsoon in June and harvested in September and October, and they depend on the monsoon rain. The other kharif crops are maize, jowar, bajra, ragi, cotton, groundnut, soyabean, sugarcane and jute. Wheat, mustard and gram are all rabi crops, sown in October and November as the monsoon withdraws and harvested in March and April. They grow through the cool dry season on residual soil moisture, winter rain from western disturbances, and irrigation. Barley and peas belong to the same group. A third short season, zaid, runs between the two in the summer months and produces watermelon, cucumber and fodder entirely under irrigation. The names come from Arabic: kharif means autumn and rabi spring, each referring to the season of harvest rather than of sowing.
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