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Rabi crops or the rabi harvest, also known as winter crops, are crop that are sown in winter and harvested in the spring in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Complementary to the rabi crop is the kharif crop, which is grown after the rabi and are harvested one after another respectively.
The word rabi was borrowed from .
The major rabi crop in India is wheat, followed by barley, mustard seed, sesame and peas. Peas are harvested early, as they are ready early: Indian markets are flooded with green peas from January to March, peaking in February.
Many crops are cultivated in both kharif and rabi seasons. The crops produced in India are seasonal and highly dependent on these two monsoons. Sowing time of Rabi & Kharif crop | agropedia The table below contains a list of differences between the three cropping seasons in India.
The Indian government also offers Minimum Support Price for these crops, so that the farmers can benefit from the harvest. Revised MSP notification, Released by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics under the Ministry of Agriculture
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