Question

In which season cotton is harvested?

Answer 1

Hint:
1. Cotton does not grow in frost climates, but requires a lot of heat in the form of sunshine that is a warm and humid climate thus the season with above-mentioned characteristics is most efficient for growing cotton.
2. Maharashtra followed by Gujarat, Telangana, Haryana and Rajasthan is India’s leading producer of cotton.

Complete answer:
Cotton

Cotton is a crop from Kharif that takes 6 to 8 months to mature.
Depending on the weather conditions, the time of sowing and harvesting varies in different parts of the world.
It is sown in April-May in Punjab and Haryana and is harvested in December-January, which is before the crop can be affected by winter frost.
It is sown until October in the peninsular portion of India and harvested between January and May because there is no chance of winter frost in these regions.
Before weather can harm or totally ruin its quality and reduce yield, the crop must be harvested.

Almost 65 per cent of the cotton field is rain-fed during the cropping season with irregular and poorly distributed rains. It is exposed to extreme pest and disease attacks.
there are three different agro-ecological zones in India which are

a) the northern (Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan),
b) central (Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh)
c) southern zones (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka).

Note:
1.The only country to grow cotton in the form of hybrids in India.
2.Back in 1970, India was the first to produce hybrid cotton.
3.India has the world's largest cotton cultivation area, although it is the third-largest cotton producer in the world after China and the USA.