INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Wheat. Wheat is not a cash crop in India. Plants that people grow to sell and not to eat or use themselves is called cash crop.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some of the cash crops are jute, sugarcane, coffee, tea, rubber, oil seeds, gram, and groundnut. Other cash crops are sesame, mustard, horticulture crops, Jatropha curcas, fruits, spices, coconut, and cotton.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cereal and pulses come under the category of food crops (subsistence crops) not cash crops. A food plant, which is grown by farmers for use by themselves and their families, not for profit or trade is known as a subsistence crop. The cereals comprise rice, wheat, bajra, rice, maize, and jowar.

Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of typical food and non-food cash crops are cereals, oilseeds, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, vegetables and fruits (e.g. avocado and oranges), peanuts, cotton and tobacco.