Describe any three features of Kharif season of Indian agriculture.

(i) Kharif crops are grown with the onset of monsoon in different parts of the country.

(ii) These are harvested in September-October.

(iii) Important crops grown during this season are paddy, maize, jowar, bajra, tur (arhar), moong. urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean.

(iv) Some of the most important rice-growing regions are Assam, West Bengal, coastal regions of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Maharashtra, particularly the (Konkan coast) along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.