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Important Points
• Important points and sentences are bolded and must remember important points and sentences are
bolded and coloured.
Basics
• This section will be a cake walk if you have understood Climatology, Climatic Regions and Indian
Climatology well.
• For understanding the concepts related to Agro-based industries, it is important to have a good
understanding of the cropping patterns of the major crops.
Data
• Statistics of variouscrops for the financial year 2018-19 are not released by the government (I couldn’t find
them in any reports). So, I have used the data from Agricultural Statistics at a Glance 2018.
• There is a lot of congruence between the Agricultural Statistics at a Glance 2018 and the data included by
various newspaper reports for FY 2018-19.
Changes
• Same: The core concepts remain the same from the old notes.
• Updated: All the crop related data is updated (Agricultural Statistics at a Glance 2018)
• New: Horticulture >Vegetables.
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Orange ............................................................................................................................................ 63
Grape .............................................................................................................................................. 63
Cashew........................................................................................................................................... 63
Peach.............................................................................................................................................. 64
Pear ................................................................................................................................................ 64
Apricot ............................................................................................................................................ 64
Strawberry...................................................................................................................................... 64
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1.2 Cropping Pattern
• When plants of the same kind are cultivated at one place on a large scale, it is called a crop.
• Croppingpatternrefers tothe spatial(location, area) andtemporal (time) arrangement of crops.
• A change in cropping pattern would indicate a spatial or temporal variation of crops.
• Spatial variation of cropping pattern includes the change in the spatial distribution or cropping area of
crops
