Season

Time of seed sowing

Time of transplanting

Time of harvesting

Maharashtra and some parts of Gujarat

1. Early Kharif

2. Kharif

3. Late Kharif

4. Rabi

Feb.-Mar.

May-June

Aug.-Sept.

Oct.-Nov.

April-May

July-Aug.

Oct.-Nov.

Dec.-Jan

Aug.-Sept.

Oct.-Dec.

Jan.-Mar.

Apr.-May

Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

1. Early Kharif

2. Kharif

3. Rabi

Feb.-April

May-June

Sept.-Oct.

April-June

July-Aug

Nov.-Dec.

July-Sept.

Oct.-Nov.

Mar.-Apr.

Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, UP and Bihar

1. Kharif

2. Rabi

June-July

Oct.-Nov.

July-Aug.

Dec.-Jan.

Oct.-Nov.

May-June

West Bengal and Orissa

1. Kharif

2. Late Kharif

3. Rabi

June-July

Aug.-Sept.

Sept.-Oct.

Aug.-Sept.

Oct.-Nov.

Nov.-Dec.

Nov.-Dec.

Feb.-Mar.

Mar.-Apr.

Hilly areas

1. Rabi

2. Summer (Long day type)

Sept.-Oct.

Nov.-Dec.

Oct.-Nov.

Feb.-Mar.

June-July

Aug.-Oct.