AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION

AGRICULTURAL SEASONS.

As has been stated earlier the agricultural seasons in the district as in other areas of the State, are susceptible to any change due either to heavy rainfall or to low rainfall. They are two, kharif and rabi. The pattern of crops that are grown in these seasons is generally the same at any time. However, it mainly depends upon the type of land, the crops that are cultivated in earlier years and above all the availability of monsoon rains and such other factors which the cultivators take note of for producing certain crops in these two seasons. The district is predominantly a kharif crop growing area. Kharif jowar, groundnut, cotton and tur are the important crops of the kharif season, while the main crops of rabi season are wheat and gram.

The sowing period of almost all the important kharif crops viz., jowar, groundnut, cotton, and tur starts after one or two monsoon showers and practically ends in the middle of July. The harvesting of kharif jowar is generally done between the third week of December and the first week of January and that of groundnut from the last week of September to the middle of October. The cotton crop is harvested from October to December and tur between January and middle of February. The rabi crops, viz., wheat and gram are usually sown between the middle of October and the first week of November, and between the third week of September and the first week of October, respectively. Wheat is harvested in March and gram between last week of February and the middle of March.

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