Which is the second most important cereal crop in India?

Concept:
Crop:
When plants of the same kind are cultivated in one place on a large scale, it is called a crop.
 Major crops grown in India are rice, wheat, millet, pulses, tea, coffee, sugarcane, oil seeds, cotton and jute, etc.
✅Explanation:
Wheat:
Wheat is the second most important cereal crop.
It is the main food crop, in the north and north-western parts of the country.
This rabi crop requires a cool growing season and bright sunshine at the time of ripening.
It requires 50 to 75 cm of annual rainfall evenly distributed over the growing season.
There are two important wheat-growing zones in the country the Ganga-Satluj plains in the northwest and the black soil region of the Deccan.
Thus, Wheat is the second most important cereal crop in India.
🛑Additional InformationRice:
It is the staple food crop of a majority of the people in India.
Our country is the second largest producer of rice in the world after China.
It is a Kharif crop which requires high temperature, (above 25°C) and high humidity with annual rainfall above 100 cm.
In areas with less rainfall, it grows with the help of irrigation.
Rice is grown in the plains of north and north-eastern India, coastal areas and the deltaic regions.
Barley:
States like UP, Rajasthan, MP, Bihar, Punjab, Haryana, HP, and J&K are where it is most frequently farmed.
As a rainfed crop, barley does well in arid, saline, or alkaline soils as well as in areas with limited water resources.
Pulses:
India is the largest producer as well as the consumer of pulses in the world.
These are the major source of protein in a vegetarian diet.
Major pulse-producing states in India are Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka.