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Describe the geographical conditions required for the growth of rice.
Answer:
Some of the geographical conditions required for the growth of rice are:
Climate:
- Rice is a kharif crop which requires hot and humid climate for cultivation.
- Temperature (above 25°C) and high humidity with annual rainfall above 100 cm are favourable for the growth of rice.
Soil :
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- Rice grows best in areas of fertile, deep clayey or loamy soil .
- Such soil can be easily converted into mud in which rice seedlings can be transplanted easily.
- Rice also thrives in alluvial soil or deltaic soil that are renewed every year by river floods.
Land :
- Rice requires abundant water supply or irrigation facilities and flooded fields during the earlier part of its growing season.
- Rice fields should be level and should have low mud walls for retaining water.
- Rice can be grown in well-watered lowland plains or in hilly dryland areas, where slopes are cut into terraces for cultivation.
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