AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE AND ITS TYPES
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Wheat
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Jute
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Millet
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Rice
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some examples of cash crops are coffee, tea, sugarcane, spices, cotton, and jute.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Jute, being one of the major cash crops grown in West Bengal, covers about 5.15 lakh hectare land and shares about three-fourth of the total production of the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -In regions with a tropical climate, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, bananas, oranges, cotton and jute are common cash crops.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jute is a bast fibre crop and can be harvested at any stage after a certain period of vegetative growth, usually between 100 to 150 days.
Detailed explanation-5: -Raw jute being bio-degradable and annually renewable source, it is considered as an environment-friendly crop and it helps in the maintenance of the environment and ecological balance. Further attraction of Jute lies in its easy availability, inexhaustible quantity at a comparatively cheaper rate.