The document discusses the different seasons in India: winter, summer, rainy season, and retreating monsoon. Winter is the cold weather season from November to February when rabi crops like wheat and mustard are grown. Summer is the hot weather season from March to May. The rainy season or kharif season allows crops like rice, maize, and millet to be grown from onset of monsoon until September-October. A short zaid season in between allows crops like melons and vegetables to be grown from March to June. The hot, dry Loo winds blow during May and June, causing high temperatures over North India.

1. SEASON
S

2. TYPES OF SEASONS
I. The cold weather season (Winter)
II. The hot weather season (Summer)
III. Advancing monsoon (Rainy season)
IV. Retreating monsoon

3. WINTER
 The cold weather season begins from mid – November in
northern India and stays till February. December and
January are the coldest months in the northern part of India.
 This season is important for Rabi crops.
 The weather is normally marked by clear skies, low
temperatures and low humidity and feeble variable winds.
The Cold Weather Season

4. RABI CROPS
The winter Crops
Rabi Crops :- Rabi crops are sown in winter from October
to December.
 Harvested in In summer from April to June
 Important Rabi crops – wheat, barley, peas, gram, and
mustard.
 Grown in – States from North and North western parts such
as Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and
Kashmir, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh
 Availability of precipitation during winter months due to
western temperate cyclones helps in the success of these
crops.

5. SUMMER
 Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons.
 Summer generally starts from the month of March and continues
up to May.
 The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate,
tradition and culture.
 When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter in the
Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa.
The Hot Weather Season

6. KHARIF CROPS
Kharif Crops :-
 These crops are grown with the onset of monsoon
and harvested in September-October.
 Important crops grown during this season are rice
(paddy), maize, jowar, bajra, tur (arhar), moong, urad,
cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean.
 Some of the most important kharif regions are
Assam, West Bengal, coastal regions of Orissa, the
Konkan coast, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

7. KHARIF CROPS
MAIZE
RICE MILLETS

8. ZAID CROPS
Zaid Crops :-
 In between the rabi and the kharif seasons, there is a
short season during the summer months known as the
Zaid season.
 Zaid crops are grown mainly from March to June
 Some of the crops produced during ‘zaid’ are
watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber, vegetables and
fodder crops and Sugarcane.

9. ZAID CROPS
WATERMELON CUCUMBER
BITTER GOURD
MUSK MELON

10. LOO
 The Loo is a strong, hot and dry summer wind from the
west which blows over the western Indo-Gangetic
Plain region of North India and Pakistan.
 It is especially strong in the months of May and June.
 Due to its very high temperatures (45 °C–50 °C or 115°F–
120°F), exposure to it often leads to fatal.
 Since it causes extremely low humidity and high
temperatures, the Loo also has a severe drying effect on
vegetation leading to widespread browning in the areas
affected by it during the months of May and June.

11. PATH OF LOO

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