INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURE AND ITS TYPES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Name the crop that grows well in both tropical and sub-tropical climate.
A
wheat
B
pulses
C
sugarcane
D
maize
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct option is D Sugarcane. Explanation: Sugarcane is a tropical as well as a subtropical crop. It grows well in hot and humid climates with a temperature of 21°C to 27°C and annual rainfall between 75cm and 100cm.

Detailed explanation-2: -avocado, banana, citrus, coffee, granadilla (passion fruit), guava, litchi, macadamia, mango, papaya, pecan and pineapple; ginger, medicinal plants, herbs and essential oil crops; indigenous fruit crops, e.g. Sclerocarya birrea (marula), several Dovyalis spp.

Detailed explanation-3: -It grows well in hot and humid climate with a temperature of 21°C to 27°C and an annual rainfall between 75cm.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tropics: maize, cassava; also yams, bananas, pineapple, sugarcane and rice.

Detailed explanation-5: -Other suitable crops are grown in equatorial hot, wet climate areas are are coconuts, sugar, coffee, tea, tobacco, spices, cinchona, banana, pineapple, and sago. Hevea brasiliensis is the most outstanding rubber grown in a plantation on the equatorial zone.

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