Kharif crops – The crops sown in June-July in the Indian subcontinent are called Kharif crops. These crops are harvested in October and November. These require high temperature and humidity at the time of sowing and dry environment at the time of ripening.

Main Kharif crops – Cotton, groundnut, paddy, millet, maize, sweet potato, urad, moong, moth cowpea (Chanwala), jowar, arhar, dhaincha, sugarcane, soybean, okra, sesame, guar, jute, flax etc.

1. In which year did Albert Einstein predict a new state of matter, Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in 1924, based on the quantum formulation given by Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose?

2. Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter in which a group of boson particles are in the same quantum state.