Rabi season: . Crops sown in winters and harvested in summers. . Some of the important rabi crops are wheat, barley, peas, gram and mustard. . States growing rabi crops are: Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Kharif season: . Crops grown with the onset of monsoons and harvested in September or October. . Important Kharif growing states are: Assam, West Bengal, coastal regions of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Maharashtra. . Crops grown during this season are: rice, maize, jowar, bajra, tur, moong, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean. Zaid season: . It falls in between the rabi and kharif seasons. . It’s a short season during the summer months. . Major crops grown are: watermelon, muskmelon, cucumbers, vegetables and fodder crops.