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D. The Wet Belt


The wet belt sprawls over West Bengal,Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Tripura. It receives 100 to 200 cm average annual rainfall. The main crops are rice, jute, tea, oilseeds, wheat, rubber, spices, and oilseeds. It consists of 4 meso and 21 micro-level agricultural regions. Rice, jute, oil seeds, maize, coconut, sugarcane are the dominant crops in this region.