{"id":356120,"date":"2026-02-16T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=356120"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:08:51","slug":"wheat-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wheat-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheat Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>News:<\/strong> The Centre has allowed the export of 25 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of wheat and 5 LMT of wheat products, easing the export ban that was imposed in May 2022.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">About Wheat Cultivation<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sarthaks.com\/?qa=blob&amp;qa_blobid=7960203939430939478\" alt=\"Wheat \" width=\"209\" height=\"264\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NCERT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wheat is the <strong>second most important cereal crop<\/strong> of India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the<strong> main food crop, in north and north-western part<\/strong> of the country.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Crop type:<\/strong> Rabi crop<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climatic conditions required<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sunlight: <\/strong>It requires <strong>a cool growing season<\/strong> and a<strong> bright sunshine<\/strong> at the time of ripening.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Temperature:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>10\u201315 \u00b0C at sowing<\/strong> and <strong>21\u201326 \u00b0C at ripening<\/strong> are ideal<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rainfall:<\/strong> It requires<strong> 50 to 75 cm of annual rainfall<\/strong> evenly distributed over the growing season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are<strong> two important wheat-growing zones in the country<\/strong> \u2013 the Ganga-Satluj plains in the north-west and black soil region of the Deccan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Status of India<\/strong>: The world\u2019s second-largest producer of wheat (around 14% of global output) and the country with the largest area under wheat cultivation.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Largest producing state: <strong>Uttar Pradesh, followed by Madhya Pradesh\u00a0and\u00a0Punjab.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Centre has allowed the export of 25 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of wheat and 5 LMT of wheat products, easing the export ban that was imposed in May 2022. About Wheat Cultivation Wheat is the second most important cereal crop of India. It is the main food crop, in north and north-western part&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wheat-cultivation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wheat Cultivation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,11209,12039],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-356120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}