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Agricultural Practices in India

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Agricultural practices in India form a core segment of geography and economics syllabi. This hub covers crop distribution, farming techniques, and land measurement terms. These concepts regularly appear in SSC, state PSC, and civil services examinations.

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Agricultural Practices in India Questions

Multiple choice

Which of the following processes is called threshing?

  1. The separation of best quality grains from the crop

  2. The separation of grains from the crops which are cut

  3. The separation of grains on the basis of their size

  4. The separation of infected grains from the crops
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Threshing is the process of separating grain from the harvested and cut crop stalks. It loosens the grain from the chaff and stalks after harvesting. Other options describe different separation processes based on quality, size sorting, or removing infected grains.

Multiple choice

Air supplies _______ and ______to crops, living beings

  1. C and H

  2. C and O

  3. H and O

  4. C, H and O
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Air provides carbon (C) from carbon dioxide and oxygen (O) from atmospheric oxygen. Hydrogen (H) comes from water. Plants use all three elements (C, H, and O) to build carbohydrates through photosynthesis. The other combinations are incomplete.

Multiple choice

Which of the following options is a biotic factor affecting crop production?

  1. Drought

  2. Salinity

  3. Water–logging

  4. Diseases
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Abiotic factors (non-living) – temperature, wind, humidity, rainfall, drought, salinity, water-logging, light intensity, etc. Biotic factors (living) – pathogens, bacteria, virus, etc. Drought, salinity and water-logging are categorised under abiotic factors. On the other hand, diseases are caused by biotic factors such as living pathogens, bacteria, virus, fungi, etc. Therefore, diseases are biotic factors affecting crop production.

Multiple choice

Growing wheat and gram simultaneously on the same piece of land in no fixed pattern is known as

  1. mixed cropping

  2. intercropping

  3. single cropping

  4. crop rotation
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Mixed cropping simply means growing of two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land. For example, growing leguminous crop with non-leguminous crop. So, if non-leguminous crop cannot take nitrogen from the soil, the other leguminous crop consumes it as it can take nitrogen available in the soil. For example, wheat (non-leguminous crop) + gram (leguminous crop) or wheat (non-leguminous crop) + mustard (leguminous crop). Intercropping – Growing of two or more crops simultaneously in a fixed pattern is known as intercropping. A few rows of one crop and then a few rows of other crop are grown. Single cropping – It is a technique of growing a single crop over a wide area also known as monoculture. Crop rotation – A practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons for various benefits such as to avoid build-up of pathogens or pests that often occurs when one type of species is continuously cropped. Therefore, simultaneously growing of wheat (a cereal) + gram (leguminous crop) on the same piece of land in no fixed pattern is known as mixed cropping.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is/are correct for mixed farming?

  1. It is the practice of growing two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land.
  2. It is also the practice of grazing animals on public land.

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. Neither 1 nor 2
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Mixed farming is a system of farming which includes crop production, raising of livestock, etc. on a particular farm.

Statement (1) is wrong. The cultivation of two or more crops on the same piece of land is called mixed cropping. Statement (2) is also wrong. The practice of grazing animals on public land is called ranching.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

  1. Wheat is a Kharif crop.
  2. The common disease of wheat plant is 'Loose smut'.
  3. It was the fourth most produced crop of the world in 2012.

  1. Only (1)

  2. Only (2)

  3. Only (1) and (2)

  4. Only (2) and (3)
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B Correct answer
Explanation

(i) Statement (1) is wrong. Wheat is a Rabi crop. (ii) Statement (2) is correct. The most common disease of wheat plant is Loose smut of wheat. It is a fungal disease, which infects the flowering of plant and reduces the yield. (iii) Statement (3) is wrong. In 2012, wheat was the second most produced crop of the world, after maize.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

(1) In rotation of crops, leguminous crops are cultivated to fix sulphur in soil. (2) The common examples of leguminous crops are rice, wheat and maize.

  1. Only (1)

  2. Only (2)

  3. Both (1) and (2)

  4. None of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Statement 1 is wrong. The leguminous crops are cultivated to fix nitrogen in soil. Statement 2 is wrong. The common examples of leguminous crops are pulses, beans and peas.