Tag: agriculture in india - iii : cash crops

1. A total rainfall between 110 and 150 cm is adequately provided the distribution is right, abundant in the months of vegetative growth followed by a dry period for ripening.
2. During the active growth period, rainfall encourages rapid cane growth, cane elongation, and internode formation.
3. But during the ripening period, high rainfall is not desirable because it leads to poor juice quality, encourages vegetative growth, the formation of water shoots and increase in the tissue moisture. It also hampers harvesting and transport operations. 
4. This seems to be the case in regions of South America, South East Asia and some parts of Southern India.

The country has the largest area under sugar cane cultivation in the monsoon reason is India.

Sugarcane grows well in tropical regions with 100-150 cm of rainfall well-distributed throughout the year. However, irrigation is necessary in areas of lower rainfall or even in areas of higher rainfall during the long dry spells.

The major sugarcane-producing states are Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab and Haryana. 

Cuba is known as the ‘sugar bowl of the world’, as it used to have largest sugar industry which is now in decay and its position is now taken up by Brazil followed by India. It is an island of Caribbean region.