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• The Planning Commission of India, during the period of 1985-1990, divided the country into 15 distinct agro-climatic zones. This division was based on factors like:
-Climate: Rainfall patterns, temperature variations, humidity, etc.
-Soil Type: Texture, fertility, and other soil characteristics.
-Water Resources: Availability of surface and groundwater.
-Cropping Patterns: Predominant crops grown in the region.
-Topography: Physical features like mountains, plains, and plateaus.

🔑Key Points:
Agro-Climatic Zones in India
-In 1988 the Planning Commission came up with a growth strategy based on a holistic approach of area planning for long-term resource efficiency and sustainability. 
-During the late nineteen eighties, a consensus seemed to have been achieved on the primacy of topography for a regional division of India.
-Based on this notion the Planning Commission proposed 15 agro-climatic zones, these have still existed wide variation in a geographical area, population density, soil types, and crops are grown.
-To increase the degree of homogeneity in agro-climatic factors, these 15 zones were further sub-divided into 73 subzones based on more specific soil types, topography, climate, and cropping pattern characteristics.
-A planning team was set up for each zone and each zone was sub-regionalized on the basis of factors intrinsically related to the character of the agricultural economy.