(IGP) IAS Pre: GS - Geography - World Geography General: Climatic Region of The World (Part -2)

• Warm dry, sunny ripening period.
• A frost free period of 90-100 days for spring wheat, 280 days for winter wheat.
• Annual rainfall of 25cm-90cm.
• Well-drained rich loam soils.
• Undulatinh level land for use of machinery.

• Prairies in North America,
• Steppes in Europe,
• Pampas in Argentina, South Africa and South east Australia.

Other regions like Mediterranean region, North China and even desert and semi desert regions.

• Growing season of four months with temperature between 200C — 250 C.
• Annual rainfall of least 125 cm in the growing season
• Rich alluvial soil with an impermeable sub soil to retain the water.
• Large labour force to raise and harvest the crop.

• Deltaic plains, coastal lowlands and river basin of Monsoon Asia in China, Japan,South East Asia, India and Bangladesh.
• Also growin in river plains outside Monsoon Asia.

• Average summer temperature of 250C or more.
• Average reainfall of 65cm-100 cm
• Frost free growing season, atleast 140 frost free
• Wide range of soil but best grows in rich soils of the sub-tropics with abundant nitrogen.
• Well-drained lowlands.

• Corn Belt, USA
• Argentina and Brazil in South America.
• China, Central America, South Africa.
• Region between the Caspian Sea and the
  Black Sea in CIS.

• Average temperate 15-250C.
• Rainfall of 100 cm evenly distributed throughout the year
• Well-drained acidic soils therefore, preferably grown on hill slopes.
• Morning mists and later sunny conditions encourage rapid growth of the young leaves.
• Labour to cultivate and harvest the crops.

• India, Sri Lanka (Black Tea.)
• China (Green Tea).
• Japan, Indonesia.
• Taiwan (Oolong Tea).
• Countries outside the Monsoon Asia-Kenya,
  Malawi, CIS and Turkey.
• Yarba Mate (a variety of tea) of Paraguay is
  also popular in the world.