Choosing the Crops based on Water Needs

In our Agriculture for Everybody blog series, we are going to see how to select the Crops based on Water Needs.


The Data provided below will help the farmers choose the crops based on the water availability.

High Water Requiring	Medium Water Requiring	Low Water Requiring
1.Arecanut	1.Acidlime	1.Agave
2.Banana	2.Allspice	2.Amla
3.Betelvine	3.Amaranth	3.Annona
4.Cocoa	4.Annual Moringa	4.Apricot
5.Coconut	5.Apple	5.Bengalgram
6.Grapes	6.Ash Gourd	6.Ber
7.Jute	7.Asparagus	7.Bilimbi
8.Oilpalm	8.Aster	8.Blackgram
9.Papaya	9.Avocado	9.Carambola
10.Rice	10.Babycorn	10.Cashewnut
11.Sugarbeet	11.Basella	11.Castor
12.Sugarcane	12.Beetroot	12.Cowpea
13.Sweet Sorghum	13.Bellary Onion	13.Cumbu Napier
	14.Bhendi	14.Cumbu
	15.Bitter Gourd	15.Fodder Cholam
	16.Bottle Gourd	16.Fodder Cowpea
	17.Bread Fruit	17.Fodder Cumbu
	18.Bread Fruit	18.Fodder Maize
	19.Brinjal	19.Garden lablab
	20.Broadbeans	20.Gingelly
	21.Brussels Sprout	21.Greengram
	22.Butter Bean	22.Groundnut
	23.Cabbage	23.Guinea Grass
	24.Cardamom	24.Horsegram
	25.Carnation	25.Karonda
	26.Carrot	26.Kolukattai Pullu
	27.Cauliflower	27.Kudirai Masal
	28.Celery	28.Lemon
	29.Ceylon Spinach	29.Loquat
	30.Chakravathi Keerai	30.Mulberry
	31.Chekurmanis	31.Muyal Masal
	32.Chillies	32.Panivaragu
	33.Chinese Cabbage	33.Phalsa
	34.Chow chow	34.Pineapple
	35.Cinnamon	35.Pomegranate
	36.Clove	36.Ragi
	37.Cluster Beans	37.Rambutan
	38.Coccinia	38.Redgram
	39.Coffee	39.Samai
	40.Coleus	40.Sorghum
	41.Colocasia	41.Soundal
	42.Commercial Chrysanthemum	42.Soybean
	43.Commercial Rose	43.Tenai
	44.Coriander	44.Varagu
	45.Cotton	45.West
	46.Crossandra
	47.Cucumber
	48.Curry Leaf
	49.Cut Chrysanthemum
	50.Cut Rose
	51.Digitalis
	52.Dioscorea
	53.Durian
	54.Egg Fruit
	55.Elephant Foot Yam
	56.Fennel
	57.Fenugreek
	58.Fig
	59.French Bean
	60.Garlic
	61.Gerbera
	62.Gherkin
	63.Ginger
	64.Gladiolus
	65.Golden Rod
	66.Guava
	67.Jack
	68.Jathimalli (Pitchi)
	69.Kiwi
	70.Knol-khol
	71.Lablab
	72.Lettuce
	73.Litchi
	74.Maize
	75.Malligai
	76.Mandarin Orange
	77.Mango
	78.Mangosteen
	79.Marigold
	80.Marikolundu (Dhavanam)
	81.Maruvu
	82.Medicinal plants
	83.Mint
	84.Mullai
	85.Mustard
	86.Nerium
	87.Nutmeg
	88.Palak
	89.Paprika
	90.Passion Fruit
	91.Peach
	92.Pear
	93.Peas
	94.Pepper
	95.Periwinkle
	96.Persimmon
	97.Plum
	98.Potato
	99.Pumpkin
	100.Pyrethrum
	101.Radish
	102.Rhubarb
	103.Ribbed Gourd
	104.Rubber
	105.Sapota
	106.Senna
	107.Small Onion
	108.Snake Gourd
	109.Spices
	110.Strawberry
	111.Sunflower
	112.Sweet Orange
	113.Sweet Potato
	114.Tamarind
	115.Tapioca
	116.Tea
	117.Tinda
	118.Tomato
	119.Tuberose
	120.Turmeric
	121.Turnip
	122.Vegetable Cowpea
	123.Watermelon
	124.Wheat
	125.Winged Bean

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