CROP SEASON S
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I. The cold weather season (Winter) II. The hot weather season (Summer) III. Advancing monsoon (Rainy season) IV. Retreating monsoon
CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL WINTER
The Cold Weather Season
The cold weather season begins from mid – November in northern India and stays till February. December and January are the coldest months in the northern part of India. This season is important for Rabi crops. The weather is normally marked by clear skies, low temperatures and low humidity and feeble variable winds.
CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL RABI CROPS The winter Crops
Rabi Crops :- o Rabi crops or Rabi harvest are agricultural crop sown in winter and harvested in the spring . o Rabi crops are sown in around mid-November, after the monsoon rains are over, and harvesting begins inApril/May. o A good rain in winter spoils the rabi crops but is goodfor kharif crops. o The major rabi crop in India is wheat.
CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL RABI CROPS
CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL SUMMER The Hot Weather Season
Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons.
Summer generally starts from the month of March and continues up to May.
The date of the beginning of summer varies according toclimate, tradition and culture.
When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa.
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Kharif Crops :- These crops are grown with the onset of monsoon and harvested in September-October. Important crops grown during this season are rice (paddy), maize, jowar, bajra, tur (arhar), moong, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean. Some of the most important kharif regions are Assam, West Bengal, coastal regions of Orissa, the Konkan coast, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL KHARIF CROPS
RICE MILLETS
MAIZE CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL ZAID CROPS
Zaid Crops :- In between the rabi and the kharif seasons, there is a short season during the summer months known as the Zaid season. Zaid crops are grown mainly from March to June
Some of the crops produced during ‘zaid’ are watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber, vegetables and fodder crops and Sugarcane.
CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL ZAID CROPS
BITTER GOURD
WATERMELON CUCUMBER
CE8603 – IRRIGATIONMUSK ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVILMELON MAPS OF ZAID AND KHARIF CROPS
CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL Mango Showers
Mango showers, or 'mango rains', is a colloquial term to describe the occurrence of pre-monsoon rainfall. Sometimes these rains are referred to generically as 'April rains' or 'Summer showers'. They are notable across much of South and Southeast Asia, including India, and Cambodia.
CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL LOO
The Loo is a strong, hot and dry summer wind from the west which blows over the western Indo- Gangetic Plain region of North India and Pakistan. It is especially strong in the months of May and June. Due to its very high temperatures (45 °C–50 °C or 115°F–120°F), exposure to it often leads to fatal. Since it causes extremely low humidity and high temperatures, the Loo also has a severe drying effect on vegetation leading to widespread browning in the areas affected by it during the months of May and June.
CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL PROTECTION FROM LOO
CE8603 – IRRIGATION ENGINEERING/V.PRIYA/AP/CIVIL PATH OF LOO
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