Kharif crops 

Kharif crops are sown in Kharif season. This season starts before the rainy season and ends before the Winter season. In the meantime crops are sown in Kharif crops, it is said to have a variety of Crops. For the Kharif crops, hot and sour weather during the sowing season and relatively low temperatures and dry weather are necessary during the harvesting season.

Kharif is the word of the Arabic language, we know it by the name of autumn. the word Kharif is coming from the Mughal empire and all Indians like to speak it in the name of purchase.

Sowing Time of Kharif Crops

Kharif crops are sown in North India in the month of September. Crops are grown in India but also Pakistan, Bangladesh. it is sown in the summer season, it is sown in the last of June and it is harvested before October. In India’s South East and Bangladesh, the monsoon is the first rain in June, which is there is sowing of Kharif crops in June, along with this rain in India’s Best Cost, Maharashtra, and Pakistan, in the month of June, So sowing of Crops is sown in the month of May, June, and July.

the temperature for the sowing of Kharif crops

The minimum temperature for the sowing of Kharif crops should be 15° C to 19° C and the favorable temperature would be 32° C to 36° C and the maximum temperature should be 37° C to 45° C.

Selection of sowing Kharif crops

Different types of crops are sown in the Kharif season. Selection of crops is selected as per the fertility of the elderly and the Monsoon Rainfall of the area. In areas where the rainfall is high, the crops wanting more water are sown on it. Rainfall is up to 150cm where less water-seeking crops are sown where the average rainfall occurs, both types of crops can be sown.

List Of Kharif Crops

Various crops are sown in Kharif season, which is classified below.

1 Cereal Crops

Paddy or Rice

Maize or Indian Corn

2 Millet Crops

Sorghum

3 Oilseed Crops

Groundnut

Castor

Til or Sesame

4 Pulse Crops

Redgram or Pigeon Pea

Mothbean or Dewbean

Soybean

Cowpea

5 Fiber Crops

Cotton

Jute

Mesta

6 Green Manure Crops

Sunnhemp

Dhaincha

7 Fodder Crops

Sorghum

Bajra

Maize

Elephant Grass or Napier Grass

Sudan Grass

Guar or Cluster Bean

8 Cash Crops

Sugarcane

Tobacco

Minimum Support Price (MSP) Price of Kharif Crops

 

Commodity	Variety	MSP for 2017-18    (Rs per quintal)	MSP for 2018-19    (Rs per quintal)	The increase over the previous year (Rs per quintal)
KHARIF CROPS
Paddy	Common	1550	1750	200
	Grade ‘A’	1590	1770	180
Jowar	Hybrid	1700	2430	730
	Maldandi	1725	2450	725
Bajra		1425	1950	525
Maize		1425	1700	275
Ragi		1900	2897	997
Arhar (Tur)		5450 (includes Rs.200- Bonus)	5675	225
Moong		5575 (includes Rs.200/- Bonus)	6975	1400
Urad		5400 (includes Rs.200- Bonus)	5600	200
Cotton	Medium Staple *	4020	5150	1130
	Long Staple **	4320	5450	1130
Groundnut in shell		4450 (includes Rs.200/- Bonus)	4890	440
Sunflower seed		4100 (includes Rs.100/- Bonus)	5388	1288
Soyabeen	Yellow and Black	3050 (includes Rs.200/- Bonus)	3399	349
					Sesamum	–	5300 (includes Rs.100/- Bonus)	6249	949
Nigerseed	–	4050 (includes Rs.100/- Bonus)	5877	1827
RABI CROPS (2018-19 season to be marketed in 2019-20)
Wheat		1735	1840	105
Barley		1410	1440	30
Gram		4400 (includes bonus of Rs. 150 per quintal)	4620	220
Masur (Lentil)		4250 (includes the bonus of Rs.100 per quintal)	4475	225
Rapeseed & Mustard		4000 (includes the bonus of Rs.100 per quintal)	4200	300
Safflower		4100 (includes bonus of Rs.100 per quintal)	4945	845
Toria		3560	3900	340
OTHER CROPS
Copra (2018 crop season)	Milling		7511	–
	Ball		7750	–
De-husked coconut			2030	–
Raw Jute (for the 2018-19 season)			3700	–
Sugarcane $			275	–

Kharif crops major production for 2018-19

01st June to 12th September 2018 has been 8% lower than Long Period Average (LPA).Total Kharif rice production of is estimated at 99.24 million tonnes. The total production of Nutri / coarse cereals in the country has decreased to 33.13 million tonnes as compared to 33.89 million tonnes during the 2017-18. Production of Maize is expected to be 21.47 million tonnes which are higher by 1.23 million tonnes than that of last year’s production of 20.24million tonnes. Further, this is more than 4.40 million tonnes than the average production of maize during the last five years.

The total production of Kharif pulses is estimated at 9.22 million tonnes which is lower by 0.12
million tonnes than the last year’s production of 9.34 million tonnes. However, kharif pulses
estimated production is 2.67 million tonnes more than the last five years average production.