Crops grown in India and China

Facts about crops in India  Fruit farming in India began sometime between 6000 and 3000 B.C. Figs were one of the first cultivated fruit crops.  Bananas are the number one fruit crop in the world. India grows more bananas than any other country. The Philippines, China, and Ecuador are the next three top producers of bananas.

Facts about crops in China  Rice was the first grain that people farmed in China.  Another food people associate with China is tea. Tea grows wild in China. By about 3000 BC (or it could be much earlier), people in China had begun to drink tea. Soon everybody drank tea.

Habitat based on agriculture  Agriculture is a major land use. Around 50% of the world's habitable land has already been converted to farming land. Overall, farmland covers 38% of the world's land area. This area is still expanding. It is predicted that in developing countries, a further 120 million hectares of natural habitats will be converted to farmland to meet demand for food by This will include land with high biodiversity value.

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Similarities in cropping patterns of India and China  Indian agriculture is labour intensive, mostly subsistence farming, nearly 60% of its population is dependent on farming and most farm For a number of obvious reasons the pace and pattern of recent economic development in China and India invite a systematic comparison. It is always interesting to measure and compare the progress of these two great neighbours, comprising a large fraction of the world's poorest people, both having recently launched massive programmes of expansion and development after centuries of foreign domination, chaos and stagnation are rain fed.

Differences in crops grown in India and china INDIA  Major crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize (corn), wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton.  Based on the growing season, the crops grown in India can be classified as Kharif crops and Rabi crops. CHINA  Agriculture is a vital industry in China, employing over 300 million farmers.[1] China ranks first in worldwide farm output, primarily producing rice, wheat, potatoes, tomato, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed, pork, and fish.  Although accounting for only 10 percent of arable land worldwide, it produces food for 20 percent of the world's population

Why and how??? Have you ever wondered why crops are there and how they are there ????  Plants are the backbone of all life on Earth and an essential resource for human well-being. Just think about how your everyday life depends on plants.  Food: Everything we eat comes directly or indirectly from plants. Throughout human history, approximately 7,000 different plant species have been used as food by people.

Pictures of some famous crops grown In India and china

Common threats to agriculture faced by farmers of India and China  We have been drawing down our water supplies at an unsustainable rate. We have aggravated the water availability problem by ignoring soil health using industrialized systems. There are four main areas on the planet which are growing grain using rain fed agriculture. They are the central U.S., Brazil, Argentina, and edges of China.

Thank you for giving your precious time to see my PPT about the cropping pattern in India and china Made by Suhani kuchankar class 4-D From-lexicon international school Pune,India.