Question

Name the states in India which produce rice in surplus amounts.

Answer 1

Hint:Rice is the most important staple food crop of India, which feeds more than half of our population. It accounts for one-third production of foodgrains in the country. India is the second largest producer of rice in the world after China.

Complete answer:
Rice is a kharif crop in north India. In the south, it can be grown throughout the year if irrigation is available.
West Bengal, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are the leading producers of rice in the country. The other rice producing States are Haryana, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Assam, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala and Gujarat, Besides these States, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh. Goa and Mizoram also produce rice.Rice is cultivated in the irrigated area.Punjab introduced the Green Revolution therefore due to higher input of High Yielding Variety seeds, fertilisers, mechanisation and finance per hectare yield is the highest.Tamil Nadu is an important producer of rice. Here about 75 per cent of the produce is contributed by Thanjavur, South Arcot, Chingleput, North Arcot .Uttar Pradesh has the largest area
under rice cultivation. Rice is an important crop in the eastern region of the State . Basti, Gorakhpur Deoria, Siddharth Nagar, Maharajganj, Gonda and Azamgarh come under the leading rice producing districts in the country.

Note: Rice, an indigenous crop, is grown all over the country with highest concentration in northeastern and southern parts of the country. It occupies above forty three million hectares of land. It is mainly a tropical crop.