0 a crop that is planted before the monsoon (= the season of heavy rain during the summer) then cut and collected in autumn
The harvest of kharif crops of the current calendar year can be substantially different from that of the next calendar year.
After experiencing difficulties, the government decided not to extend the wholesale trade takeover to rice for the coming 1973/74 kharif season.
Those states which were willing to take over the wholesale trade in rice from the 1973/74 kharif season were allowed to do so.
Transplanted rice in the kharif is usually followed by wheat or sometimes chickpea, in the rabi.
Nevertheless, the 1973/74 kharif procurement still suffered a setback due to the psychology of shortages and the insecurity prevailing after the wheat trade takeover experiment.
A vigorous campaign using these methods resulted in the defeat of the locust threat to last year's kharif crop.
Of these two, kharif (rainy) is the most important rice season.
New grain market is spread across several acres and is planned to avoid jams specially during the kharif season.
