कृषि जलवायु क्षेत्र

Zone	Area	Total Area (million ha)	District Covered	Average Rainfall (mm)	Temp OC		Major Crops		Soils	Agriculture Research Station	Adaptive Trial Centres
					Max.	Min.	Kharif	Rabi
IA	Arid western plain	4.74	Barmer & part of Jodhpur	200-370	40.0	8.0	Pearlmillet Mothbean Sesame	Wheat, Mustard, Cumin	Desert soils and sand dunes aeolian soil, coarse sand in texture some places calcareous	Mandore, Jodhpur	Rampura
IB	Irrigated north western plain	2.10	Sriganganagar, Hanumangarh	100-350	42.0	4.7	Cotton, Clusterbean	Wheat, Mustard, Gram	Alluvial deposites calcareous, high soluble salts & exchangeable sodium	Ganganagar	Shri Karanpur, Ganganagar & Hanumangarh
IC	Hyper arid partial irrigated zone	7.70	Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Churu	100-350	48.0	3.0	Pearlmillet Mothbean Clusterbean	Wheat, Mustard, Gram	Desert soils and sand dunes aeolian soil, loamycoarse in texture & calcareous	Beechwal Bikaner	Loonkaran Bikaner
IIA	Internal drainage dry zone	3.69	Nagaur, Sikar, Jhunjhunu, Part of Churu	300-500	39.7	5.3	Pearlmillet Clusterbean Pulses	Mustard, Gram	Sandy loam, sallow depth red soils in depressions	Fatehpur, Sikar
IIB	Transitional plain of Luni basin	3.00	Jalore, Pali, Part of Sirohi, Jodhpur	300-500	38.0	4.9	Pearlmillet Clusterbean sesame	Wheat, Mustard	Red desert soils in Jodhopur, Jalore & Pali sierzems in Pali & Sirohi	Keshwana, Jalore	Sumerpur, Pali
IIIA	Semi arid eastern plains	2.96	Jaipur, Ajmer, Dausa, Tonk	500-700	40.6	8.3	Pearlmillet Clusterbean Sorghum	Wheat, Mustard, Gram	Sierozens, eastern part alluvial, west north west lithosols, foot hills, brown soils	Durgapura, Jaipur	Tabiji, Ajmer
IIIB	Flood prone eastern plain	2.77	Alwar, Dholpur, Bharatpur, Karoli, S.Madhopur	500-700	40.0	8.2	Pearlmillet Clusterbean Groundnut	Wheat, Barley, Mustard, Gram	Alluvial prone to water logging, nature of recently alluvial calcareous has been observed	Navgaun, Alwar	Malikpur, Bharatpur
IVA	Sub-humid southern plains	3.36	Bhilwara, Sirohi, Udaipur, Chittorgarh	500-900	38.6	8.1	Maize, Pulses, Sorghum	Wheat, Gram	Soil are lithosolsat foot hills & alluvials in plains	Udaipur	Chittorgarh
IVB	Humid sothern plains	1.72	Dungarpur, Udaipur, Banswara, Chittorgarh	500-1100	39.0	7.2	Maize, Paddy Sorghum Blackgram	Wheat, Gram	Predominantly reddish medium texture, well drained calcareous, shallow on hills, deep soils in valleys
V	Humid south eastern plain	2.70	Kota, Jhalawar, Bundi, Baran	650-1000	42.6	10.6	Sorghum Soyabean	Wheat, Mustard	Black of alluvial origin, clay loam, groundwater salinity	Ummedganj, Kota	Chattarpura, Bundi