Indian Agriculture: Tea, Coffee, Fruits, and Vegetables PDF
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This document provides an overview of Indian agriculture, detailing the cultivation of tea, coffee, and various fruits and vegetables. It highlights India's position as a major producer of these crops, based on 2020 statistics. Key topics include tea, coffee, and fruit cultivation in India.
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climate all through the year. Frequent showers evenly distributed over the year ensure continuous growth of tender leaves. Tea is a labour-intensive industry. It requires abundant, cheap and skilled labour. Tea is processed within the tea garden to restore Fig. 4.10: Tea Cul...
climate all through the year. Frequent showers evenly distributed over the year ensure continuous growth of tender leaves. Tea is a labour-intensive industry. It requires abundant, cheap and skilled labour. Tea is processed within the tea garden to restore Fig. 4.10: Tea Cultivation Fig. 4.11: Tea-leaves Harvesting its freshness. Major tea- producing states are Assam, hills of Darjeeling Horticulture Crops: In 2018, India was the and Jalpaiguri districts, West Bengal, Tamil second largest producer of fruits and Nadu and Kerala. Apart from these, Himachal vegetables in the world after China. India is a Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Andhra producer of tropical as well as temperate fruits. Pradesh and Tripura are also tea-producing Mangoes of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, states in the country. In 2018 India was the Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, second largest producer of tea after China. oranges of Nagpur and Cherrapunjee Coffee: Indian coffee is known in the world for (Meghalaya), bananas of Kerala, Mizoram, its good quality. The Arabica variety initially Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, lichi and guava brought from Yemen is produced in the of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, pineapples of country. This variety is in great demand all over Meghalaya, grapes of Andhra Pradesh, the world. Initially its cultivation was Telangana and Maharashtra, apples, pears, introduced on the Baba Budan Hills and even apricots and walnuts of Jammu and Kashmir today its cultivation is confined to the Nilgiri in and Himachal Pradesh are in great demand Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. the world over. Fig. 4.12: Apricots, apple and pomegranate Fig. 4.13: Cultivation of vegetables – peas, cauliflower, tomato and brinjal Source: Pocket book of agricultural statistics, 2020, Govt. of India. Directorate of Economics and Statistics. A GRICULTURE 37 Reprint 2024-25
