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UPSC Prelims 1986 · Agriculture · Crops and Where They Grow
Which of the following crops is a tropical monsoon crop?
- (a) Rice
- (b) Wheat
- (c) Ragi
- (d) Jowar
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Answer: (a) Rice
Rice is the typical tropical monsoon crop — it needs heat and heavy rain.
Why the others are wrong
(b) Wheat is a winter crop.
(c) Ragi is a hardy millet.
(d) Jowar is a dryland millet.
The trap
Ragi and jowar are also kharif, but they are dryland crops.
🔒 Rice: 100–200 cm rain, 25 °C+, standing water.
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