Agricultural crop production is the mainstay of the Indian economy, which supports about 115.5 million farm families. A variety of crops is grown under diverse climatic situations to different cropping systems. Rice-wheat is the main cropping system of Indo-Gangetic Plains in North-West and North-East India. Rice is the prevalent crop in the coastal belt of the eastern and southern states. A cotton-based cropping system is predominant in the rain-fed conditions ...
