(in South Asia) the grain crop sown in September and reaped in the spring.
早春作物（指印度次大陆九月播种、春天收获的作物）
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This has helped in solving the problem of drinking water, bringing some lands under rabi crops and generating employment opportunities.
With a good monsoon, the kharif crop was buoyant and rabi is also expected to do well, going by the meteorological department's forecast of a prolonged winter.
They gave wheat, barley and mustard at the time of the rabi and at the time of kharif, rice, pulses, beans, salt and chillies were collected.
Farmers who had already lost their last rabi crops due to the scanty rainfall are now losing their kharif crops, which have been badly damaged due to non arrival of rains.
But if you're a small farmer with one acre at one spot, you have no rabi crop at all every second year.
There are two cultivation seasons: kharif, running from April to October; and rabi, running from November to March.