13. WHEAT
1. Second most important cereal crop.
2. Main food crop.
3. Areas – Punjab, Haryana, U.P., Bihar, Rajasthan and parts of Madhya Pradesh
4. Rabi crop
5. Requires cool growing season and a bright sunshine at the time of ripening.
6. Annual Rainfall – 50-75cm
7. Two important wheat growing zones – the Ganga Satluj plains in north west and black soil
region in the Deccan