{"id":2879,"date":"2023-02-21T05:49:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T00:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:24:51","slug":"national-conference-on-agriculture-for-zaid-summer-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-conference-on-agriculture-for-zaid-summer-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"National Conference on Agriculture for Zaid (Summer) Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About National Conference on Agriculture for Zaid (Summer) Campaign:<\/h2>\n<p>The objective of the Zaid conference is to review and assess the crop performance during the preceding crop seasons and fix crop-wise targets for the summer season in consultation with State Governments.<\/p>\n<h3>What are Zaid crops?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Zaid or summer crops are grown in the short <strong>season between Kharif and Rabi crops<\/strong>, between March and July.<\/li>\n<li>These crops are <strong>mostly grown on irrigated lands<\/strong> and therefore, the farmers do not wait for the monsoon.<\/li>\n<li>Zaid crops require <strong>warm soil and high<\/strong> temperatures (cooling at night) to grow.<\/li>\n<li>They require warm, dry weather as a vital growth period and longer day length for flowering.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the vegetables and hybrid cereals are grown in the zaid season.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major crops:<\/strong> Paddy, corn; pumpkin, cucumber, tomato; almonds, peanuts, cashews; Gram, lentils, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cultivation areas in India:<\/strong> Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>Zaid crop is significant for farmers as it gives fast cash to the farmers and is also known as a gap-filler between two chief crops, Kharif and Rabi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Rabi crop?<\/h3>\n<p>Rabi crops or rabi harvest are rural crops that are planted in winter and harvested in the spring in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1900790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Union Agriculture Minister chairs the National Conference on Agriculture for Zaid Campaign-2023<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of Zaid conference is to review and assess crop performance during the preceding crop seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}