FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rainfed agriculture is a type of farming that relies on rainfall for water. It provides much of the food consumed by poor communities in developing countries.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rainfed agriculture includes both permanent crops (such as rubber, tea, and coffee) as well as annual crops (such as wheat, maize, and rice). For example, tubers, a staple crop for sub-Saharan Africa, have been all but uninfluenced by the technological developments of the green revolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rainfed agriculture is practiced under a wide variety of soil type, agro-climatic and rainfall conditions ranging from 400 mm to 1600 mm per annum.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rainfed Farming System Rainfed agriculture occupies about 51 percent of country’s net sown area and accounts for nearly 40 percent of the total food production. Rainfed agriculture is complex, highly diverse and risk prone.

Detailed explanation-5: -Rainfed fanning is classified on the basis of adequacy of soil moisture into two. (i) dryland farming and. (ii) wetland farming: • (i) It is confined to the regions having annual rainfall less than 75 cm. (ii) Various measures of soil moisture conservation and rain water harvesting are being practised. • More items •02-Aug-2020