Kharif (monsoon crops)

Rabi (post-monsoon crops)

Rice based

Non-Rice-Based

Wheat and Gram Based

Rabi-Jowar

Based

Relay Cropping - seed of succeeding crops like lentil, gram, pea, lathyrus, berseem, linseed etc. is sown through broadcasting in maturing rice crop. It is done in both upland and lowland rice culture*.

Mixed varietal cropping of rice - Mixing the seeds of early rice (ahu) with late maturing deep water rice (bao).

It is mainly practiced in West

Bengal.

Maize-based Bajra-based Cotton-based

These two crops are grown under identical climate and can often be substituted for each other.

Along with Jowar, bajra, pulses, oilseeds and tobacco are grown as alternative crops.