Agriculture is India's main occupation and includes various types of farming like subsistence, commercial, and plantation farming. The document discusses different cropping seasons in India and major food crops like rice, wheat, millets, maize, and pulses. It also outlines non-food crops such as cotton, jute, rubber, and horticultural crops including fruits and vegetables. Creative farming involves scarecrows and artistic designs in agricultural fields.

1. Agriculture
India’s main occupation
Presented By..
Maheshwari Das
Harshitha Sarji
Namitha B Holla
PES Public School , Shimoga
Class:10
24:04:2014

2. Acknowledgement
We would like to express our special thanks of
gratitude to our teacher Mr. Madhusoodhanan Sir
who gave us the golden opportunity to do this
wonderful presentation on the topic Agriculture.
Which also helped us in doing a lot of research and
we came to know about many new things.
We are really thankful to you sir.
Secondly we would also like to thank our parents
who helped us a lot in finishing this presentation
within the limited time.
We made this project not only for marks but to
also increase our knowledge .
THANKS AGAIN TO ALL WHO ENCOURAGED US.

3. Contents
• What is agriculture ?
• Types of farming
• Cropping seasons
• Different types of crops
• Creative farms

4. What is Agriculture ?
The science or practice of
farming, including cultivation
of the soil for the growing of
crops and the rearing of
animals to provide food,
wool, and other products.

5. Types 0f Farming
1. Primitive subsistence farming
2. Intensive subsistence farming
3. Commercial farming
4. Plantation farming

6. 1.Primitive subsistence farming
i. This is still practiced in India
ii. This is practiced in small plot of land with
primitive tools like hoe, Dao and digging sticks
iii. It depends upon monsoon and climatic
conditions
iv. It is Slash and Burn agriculture
v. Land productive is low because farmers don’t
use fertilizers and other modern inputs

7. Primitive
subsistence
farming
North
east
council

8. 2.Intensive subsistence farming
• Practiced in area of high population
• There is high pressure in land
• It is a labor intensive farming
• Bio-chemical imputed and
irrigation are used for obtaining
higher production

9. Cultivable land is intensively cultivated

10. 3.Commercial farming
I. Higher dose of modern inputs
II. The degree of
commercialization varies from
one region to another
III. Example – rice is commercial
crop in Punjab and Haryana
but subsistence crop in Orissa

11. Commercial farming

12. 4.Plantation farming
I. It is a type of a commercial farming
II. Single crop is grown in a large area
III. It has an interface of agriculture and
industry
IV. It is done on a large tract of land using
capital intensive inputs with the help
of migrant labors
V. Used as raw materials in industries

13. Coffee Apple
Important Plantation Crops

14. Orange Sugarcane
Important Plantation Crops

15. Cultivation name in different regions
Mexico
• Milpa
Brazil
• Roca
Africa
• Masole

16. Cropping season
1.Rabi
2.Kharif
3.Zaid

19. Rice
Wheat
Millets
Major crops Of India

20. Maize Pulses
Major crops of India

21. Food crops
Other than grains

22. Sugarcane
Oil seeds
Groundnut

23. Sugarcane Oil seeds Ground nut
It stands second
in the world for
its production
Cooking oil ,
vegetable oil &
lubricating oil
Kharif crop
It is a crop of
tropical wet
regions
Principal oil seeds-
Ground nut ,rape
seeds & mustard
seeds
Accounts about
half of the major
oil seeds produced
in the country
Deep fertile soil,
alluvial & black
soil are ideal
soil
Others are –
sesame, linseed
castor seed ,
sunflower seed ,
cooton seed & copra
It is an oil
seed

24. Beverage
Crops

25. Tea coffee

27. Horticulture
Crops

28. Major Fruits
produced
in India
are
1. Apple
2. Mango
3. Banana
4. Grapes
5. Orange
6. Lichi

29. India is the largest
producer of fruits and
vegetables in the world
India produces about
13% of the world’s
vegetables

30. India is
important
producer
of
1. Pea
2. Cauliflower
3. Onion
4. Tomato
5. Brinjal
6. Potato

31. Non-Food
crops

32. Rubber
Equatorial crop &
grown in tropical
and subtropical
regions
It requires moist
and humid climate
It is an important
industrial raw
material
It is mainly grown
in Kerala
Tamilnadu ,
Karnataka and
Andaman and
Nicobar islands

33. Cotton Jute
Fiber crops

34. Requires high
temperature light
rainfall and
bright sunshine
for its growth
Grown in
Maharashtra
Karnataka
Punjab Gujarat
Cotton Requires high
temperature ,
well-drained
fertile soil in the
flood plains
Grown in West
Bengal Bihar
Assam and
Meghalaya
Jute

35. Creative Planting
Go green

40. Agriculture
Fields

43. Scarecrow’s are
planted to avoid
plant eating
birds and
animals