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Rabi crops or rabi harvest, also known as winter crops, are crops that are sown in winter and harvested in the spring in India, Pakistan , and Bangladesh. Complementary to the rabi crop is the Kharif crop, which is grown after the rabi and zaid (zaa-id) crops are harvested one after another respectively.
Etymology
The words kharif and rabi have their origins in Arabic. These came to be used in India with the ascent of the Mughal empire in the Indian subcontinent and have been widely used ever since. The term is derived from the Arabic word for "spring", which is used in the Indian subcontinent, where it is the spring harvest (also known as the "winter crop").
Rabi season in India
The rabi crops are sown around mid-November, preferably after the monsoon rains are over, and harvesting begins in April / May. The crops are grown either with rainwater that has percolated into the ground or using irrigation. Good rain in winter spoils the rabi crops but is suitable for Kharif crops.
The major rabi crop in India is wheat, followed by barley, mustard, sesame , and peas. Peas are harvested early, as they are ready before Indian markets are flooded with green peas from January to March, peaking in February.
Many crops are cultivated in both the kharif and rabi seasons. The crops produced in India are seasonal and highly dependent on these two monsoons. The table below contains a list of differences between the three cropping seasons in India.
The Indian government also offers a Minimum Support Price for these crops, so the farmers can benefit from the harvest.
Common rabi crops
Cereals
- Linseed
- soybean
- soybean
Fruits
The list is as follows. These are rabi harvests rather than crops as that term is usually applied to annuals and not perennials:
Legumes / lentils (dal)
Seed plants
- alfalfa (also known as lucerne, Medicago sativa)
- coriander (Coriandrum sativum, L)
- cumin (Cuminum cyminum, L)
- fenugreek (Trigonella foenumgraecum, L)
- linseed
- mustard (Brassica juncea L.)
- isabgol (Plantago ovata)
- sunflower
- Bengal gram
- red gram
- black pepper
Vegetables
- bean
- beetroot (chukunder)
- brinjal (baingan)
- broccoli (hari gobhi)
- cabbage (patta gobhi)
- capsicum
- carrot (gajar)
- cauliflowers (gobhi)
- chickpea (also known as gram, Cicer arientinum) (channa)
- fenugreek (methi)
- garlic (lehsun)
- lady finger (bhendi)
- lettuce (salad gobhi)
- pea (mattar)
- onion (Allium cepa, L.) (pyaj)
- potato (Solanum tuberosum) (urulai kizhangu) (aloo)
- radish (mooli)
- spinach (palak)
- sweet potato (shakarkand)
- tomato (Solanum lycopersiucum, L) (tamatar) (thakkali)
- turnip (shalgum)
- Balfor, Edward (1885). The Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (3 ed.). London: Bernard Quaritch. p. 331. Archived from the original on 2014-04-15.
- Sowing time of Rabi & Kharif crop | agropedia Archived 2013-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Revised MSP notification, Released by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics under the Ministry of Agriculture
- Rabi products list, released by Agrinfobank, Pakistan
- ^ Rabi crop planting rises 10% in a week, 2016.
- Rabi crops in Haryana, Haryana Seeds Development Corporation.