Main crop of Madhya Pradesh is
- (a)Rice
- (b)Wheat
- (c)Maize
- (d)Bajra
Correct — B, Wheat. Wheat is Madhya Pradesh's principal food-grain crop — the dominant rabi (winter) cereal grown across the fertile black-soil (regur) Malwa and Nimar plateaus, and MP is one of India's top two wheat producers (its 'Sharbati' wheat is prized). Among the four options it clearly leads in both sown area and output.
- (a)Rice — Rice is grown mainly in the higher-rainfall eastern districts (Balaghat, Mandla, Rewa) but ranks below wheat in MP's cropped area and production.
- (c)Maize — Maize matters in tracts like Chhindwara and the Jhabua–Alirajpur belt, yet it is a secondary cereal, not the state's main crop.
- (d)Bajra — Bajra (pearl millet) is a minor coarse cereal of the drier Gwalior–Morena tract, far behind wheat.
Madhya Pradesh's cropping is dominated by the rabi season, and wheat is its flagship rabi cereal, favoured by the black cotton soils and assured winter irrigation of the Malwa plateau. Among cereals, wheat leads the state in both area and production.
'Main crop' means the largest by area/output, not merely a well-known one. Rice, maize and bajra are all grown in MP, but none rivals wheat's spread — so eliminate on scale.
- Wheat is MP's leading cereal in both sown area and production.
- Grown on black (regur) soils of the Malwa–Nimar plateau in the rabi (winter) season.
- MP is among India's top two wheat producers; 'Sharbati' wheat (Sehore/Vidisha area) is famous.
- Rice is concentrated in eastern MP; maize in Chhindwara/Jhabua; bajra in the north-west.
- Picking rice because it is India's overall staple — but MP's main crop is wheat.
- Forgetting that soybean is MP's top crop overall (not offered here); among these options wheat wins.
MPPSC asks it as 'main/largest crop of MP' or 'rank of wheat among MP cereals'; UPSC frames leading-producer-state questions. Anchor: MP → wheat (cereal) and soybean (oilseed).
According to 2021–22, the area and production of wheat occupies which place among cereals in Madhya Pradesh?
- (a) Third
- (b) Fourth
- (c) Second
- (d) First
Answer(d) First
Directly confirms the same fact — wheat is MP's leading cereal in area and production, i.e. its main crop.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Wheat in Madhya Pradesh is grown mainly in which season?
- (a)Kharif (monsoon)
- (b)Rabi (winter)
- (c)Zaid (summer)
- (d)Perennial
Answer(b) Rabi (winter).
- practice — not a real PYQ
Madhya Pradesh is India's largest producer of which of these crops?
- (a)Soybean
- (b)Rice
- (c)Sugarcane
- (d)Cotton
Answer(a) Soybean — MP leads India in soybean output.