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The most important crop grown during the rabi season_______
 A.Paddy
 B.Wheat
 C.Jowar
 D.Pulses

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Hint:The word rabi is an Arabic word which means spring as it is cleared that these agricultural crops have been harvested in spring March and sown in winters as in months of oct-nov. Rabi crops are barley, Wheat, Millet, Pulses.

Complete answer:
Agricultural crops Rabi crops are the crops which are grown-up in the winter season and harvested in the month of March-April. Heavy rain in winters is harmful to rabi crops. The opposite crops of rabi crops are kharif crops they are sown in summers and heavy rainfall is beneficial for Kharif Agricultural crops. From the above option Wheat is an important rabi crop as the people of India like chapati more than rice. So the amount of Wheat production is more than any crop in India. Punjab is a state where the best quality of wheat is produced. The sharbat variant of MP is also very popular and considered as A1 quality of India is the second-largest producer of Wheat.3 species of wheat namely T.durum, T.diacoccum and T.aestivum (bread wheat) are cultivated in a country. The different types and quality of wheat are required for different types of eatable products like chapatis, bread, and biscuits. Maida, suji is also made up of wheat which is mostly used in sweet dishes and snacks in every Indian house.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note:1 bushel of wheat contains about one million individual kernels and its weight approximately 60 pounds.According to the National Association of Wheat Growers Wheat introduced by the English colonists and fastly became the main cash crop of farmers who sold it to the urban populations and exporters. Wheat is also grown in 42 states of the United States.