UPSC · Prelims and Mains
Indian and World Geography
← India: resources, agriculture, industry and transportFarming systems, irrigation regions and agricultural change
- Applying farming-system classifications to Indian regions
- Dryland farming (below 75 cm rain: millets, pulses) and wetland farming (rice, jute, sugarcane)
- Regional pattern of irrigated and rainfed land
- Green Revolution: HYV seeds, irrigation and fertiliser in Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh; later spread
- Agro-climatic zones and agricultural regionalisation
- Problems: monsoon dependence, low productivity, small holdings, land degradation, indebtedness
