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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

The crop most susceptible to frost is

  1. wheat

  2. red gram

  3. cotton

  4. black gram
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Wheat is highly sensitive to frost, especially during the flowering and grain-filling stages, which can cause significant damage to the crop.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is a perennial crop?

  1. Sugarcane

  2. Wheat

  3. Rice

  4. Maize
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A Correct answer
Explanation

A perennial crop is a plant that lives for more than two years. Sugarcane is a perennial grass, whereas wheat, rice, and maize are annual crops that complete their life cycle in a single season.

Multiple choice

The crop cultivated in farm lands bought abroad (neighbouring countries) by Central government and India Inc would then be shipped to India. The current (2008) focus of cultivation is on which of the following?

  1. Pulses and oilseeds

  2. Pulses and rice

  3. Rice and oilseeds

  4. Rice and wheat
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The 2008 initiative by the Indian government to acquire land abroad was primarily focused on securing supplies of pulses and oilseeds to manage domestic shortages.

Multiple choice

The process followed to separate grains form the stalks is called

  1. Winnowing

  2. Threshing

  3. Sieving

  4. Hand picking
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Explanation: Threshing is the process of loosening the edible part of cereal grain (or other crop) from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it. It is the step in grain preparation after harvesting and before winnowing, which separates the loosened chaff from the grain

Multiple choice

Farmers take the help of __________ while threshing.

  1. spade

  2. plough

  3. bullock

  4. sieve
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Threshing is a process in which grains are beaten to separate them from stalks. To separate large quantities, farmers generally use bullocks to beat the grains.