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Which of these is a rabi crop?
Answer: B
Correct answer: Wheat
Wheat is the principal rabi crop of India. Rabi crops are sown in October and November as the monsoon withdraws and harvested in March and April, growing through the cool dry season on residual soil moisture, winter rain from western disturbances, and irrigation. The other rabi crops are barley, gram, peas, mustard, linseed and lentils. Rice, jute and cotton are all kharif crops, sown with the arrival of the monsoon in June and harvested in September and October. Maize, jowar, bajra, ragi, groundnut, soyabean and sugarcane belong with them. Wheat needs cool weather at sowing and warm dry weather at ripening, which confines it largely to the northern plains - Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh. Punjab and Haryana have the highest yields, helped by assured irrigation and the high-yielding varieties introduced during the Green Revolution. India is the world’s second largest producer of wheat after China.
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