As an agricultural policy researcher, I can explain that kharif (monsoon-sown like paddy), rabi (winter-sown like wheat), and zaid (short summer crops like moong) are India's standard cropping seasons classified by sowing months. Yet, my fieldwork in Uttar Pradesh shows this rigid calendar is fading. With erratic monsoons and tube wells, I've documented farmers now sowing what was traditionally a rabi crop, like mustard, in late kharif—a practical blurring of seasons policy must acknowledge.
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