Two-thirds of India's population is engaged in agricultural activities. Agriculture is a primary activity, whic produces the most of the food raw material for various industries. In Agriculture Class 10 - Revision Notes, Important Terms with explanation you will study the various types of farming, cropping patterns and major crops grown in India. In the end, you will know how much agriculture contributes to the National Economy, Employment and Output.
Chapter At A Glance
- About 61% of people in India are engaged in Agriculture for livelihood.
- Primitive farming is known as shifting cultivation or Slash and Burn cultivation.
- There is enormous population pressure on land.
- In India tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, banana are important plantation crops.
- India has three cropping seasons of Rabi, Kharif and Zaid.
- Rice is the staple food of people of India.
- Jowar, bajra and ragi are the important millets grown in India.
- India is the largest producer as well as consumer of pulses in the world.
- India is the largest producer of oil seeds in the world.
- India is the leading producer as well as exporter of tea in the world.
Important Terms & Their Explanation
- Agriculture - Agriculture is the practice, art and science of cultivating the land.
- Subsistence Agriculture - In which the farmer grows crop for his consumption.
- Commercial Agriculture - In which the farmer grows crops for sale.
- Intensive farming - In which agriculture is grown on small forms using scientific methods for higher yields.
- Plantation of farming - Cultivation of a single crop on large farms for sale.
- Rabi Crops - Crops grown during winter season.
- Kharif Crops - Crops grown during summer season.
- Dry farming - Crops grown in areas of low rainfall.
- Green Revolution - Technique to use scientific methods to get high yields.
- Wet land farming - Crops grown in areas of high rainfall.
- Beverage Crops - Tea and Coffee used for drinking.
- Cereals - Crops used as food.
- Fallow Land - Not cultivating a tract of land to maintain soil fertility.
- Golden Fibre - Jute
- Millets - Jowar, Bajra and Ragi.