Although sesamum can be grown in several soil types as long as they drain properly, sandy loam with sufficient soil moisture is ideal for its growth. It cannot be grown in extremely sandy, acidic, or alkaline soils.
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Sunflower is a short-duration, photo-insensitive, wide adaptable, and drought-tolerant oilseed crop.
It can be grown at any time of the year and can serve as an ideal catch crop during the periods when land is otherwise left fallow.
Green Gram crop is grown mostly under rainfed conditions (Kharif season) but during summer it can be grown only when the assured irrigation facilities are available. During the summer, the crop is grown for its grain or green manuring, which adds 40–50 kg of residual fertility per hectare after the mature pods are picked off.
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Kodo millet is quite distinct from other millets due to purple pigmentation in leaves. The crop has a characteristic violet look Kodo millet is a highly drought-resistant crop. It is the coarsest of all food grains. The grain is covered with a horny seed coat, which should be removed before cooking. Immature and moulded grains are supposed to be poisonous.
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The outer covering of the arhar crop seed and part of the kernel provides valuable feed for milch cattle. The husk of pods and leaves obtained during threshing constitutes a valuable cattle feed. Woody parts of the plant are used for fuel. It is a legume crop and, consequently, possesses valuable properties as a restorer of nitrogen to the soil
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Cultivation of Maize; Zea Zays Cultivation of Maize; Zea Mays Maize is an important staple food crop of India that
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