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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

What crops were grown in the Indus Valley Civilization?

  1. Tea, lemons, and beans

  2. Corn, plantain, and hemp

  3. Lettuce, cocoa and avocado

  4. Barley, wheat, and cotton.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Archaeological evidence indicates that the Indus Valley people cultivated crops such as wheat and barley, and they were among the first to grow cotton for textiles.

Multiple choice chemistry production of metals refining of metals basics of metallurgy basic metallurgical processes

Which of the following represents incorrect statement(s)?

  1. The process that is used to separate grain from stalks is winnowing.

  2. In this process, the grain seeds are beaten to free the stalks.

  3. Threshing is not done with the help of bullocks. Machines are used to thresh even small quantities of grains.

  4. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

All of the given options represents incorrect statements.
The process that is used to separate grain from stalks is threshing. In this process, the stalks are beaten to free the grain seeds.
Threshing is done with the help of bullocks. Machines are also used to thresh large quantities of grains.

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Which one of the following is millet?

  1. <p>Triticum</p>

  2. Sorghum

  3. <p>Oryza</p>

  4. None of the above
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Millets are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as grains for human food and fodder. Sorghum is a millet, commonly known as jowar is the genus of flowering plants belonging to grass family Poaceae. Most of the Sorghum species are native to Australia. It is an important crop worldwide and is used as a food, animal fodder, production of biofuels and alcoholic beverages.

So, the correct answer is 'Sorghum'.

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Multiple Choice Questions
Shifting cultivation is

  1. Agroforestry

  2. Social forestry

  3. Conservation forestry

  4. Industrial forestry.
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Agroforestry is the land use pattern or pathway that allows the combination of agriculture and forestry. It is a land management system. Shifting cultivation includes the use of land for agricultural purpose followed by clearing off of the cultivation and leaving the pasture undisturbed to restore its fertility. Shifting cultivation is associated with agroforestry.

So, the correct answer is 'Agroforestry'.

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Crop rotation implies _____________________.

  1. The growing of crops one after the other successively to maintain soil fertility

  2. Shifting cultivation

  3. Growing commercial and food crops by rotation

  4. Growing more than one crop at a time
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons. It is done so that the soil of farms is not used for only one set of nutrients. It helps in reducing soil erosion and increases soil fertility and crop yield

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Under 'One Village one product' scheme launched in North East states, plantation of which of the following is being promoted as an inaugural product of the scheme?

  1. Lemon

  2. Banana

  3. Apple

  4. Orange
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The 'One Village One Product' scheme in North East India has promoted various local products, and lemon (specifically Assam Lemon) has been a key product promoted under such initiatives.

Multiple choice geography punjab along the plains northern plains northern plains of india

Punjab and Haryana plain is the leading producer of ______.

  1. Bajara

  2. Wheat

  3. Oil-seeds

  4. Sugarcane
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The Punjab and Haryana plains are known as the granary of India due to their massive production of wheat. This region benefits from fertile soil and extensive irrigation networks.

Multiple choice evs - i rules are for everyone soil and its conservations soil pollution-control protecting our environment sustainability of natural resources adaptations - mangrove swamps, fast flowing rivers and treetops halophiles

In hilly areas, erosion is minimized by

  1. Terracing

  2. Manuring

  3. Ploughing

  4. Mixed cropping
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Soil erosion is removal of top soil by agency of water (water erosion) and wind (wind erosion). One of the methods for soil conservation against soil erosion is terracing. In terracing, slope is divided into a number of flat fields for slowing down the flow of water. Terracing is very effective in hilly areas for control of soil erosion.

Multiple choice commercial studies striving for a better environment soil and its conservations soil pollution-control protecting our environment

In hilly areas, erosion is minimised by

  1. Terracing

  2. Manuring

  3. Ploughing

  4. Mixed cropping
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Terracing is a process of making sloped plane into series of succesively receding flat surfaces or platforms resembling stairs, this is how erosion is minimised.

So, the correct answer is 'Terracing'

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The shifting cultivation method, called as jhum, belongs to the category of

  1. Industrial forestry

  2. Agro-forestry

  3. Commercial forestry

  4. Social forestry

  5. Conservation forestry
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Agroforestry or agro-sylviculture is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland.

Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation, while the cultivator moves on to another plot. The period of cultivation is usually terminated, when the soil shows signs of exhaustion or, more commonly, when the field is overrun by weeds. 
Shifting cultivation is a form of agriculture or a cultivation system, in which, at any particular point in time, a minority of 'fields' are in cultivation and a majority are in various stages of natural re-growth. Over time, fields are cultivated for a relatively short time, and allowed to recover, or are fallowed, for a relatively long time. Eventually a previously cultivated field will be cleared of the natural vegetation and planted in crops again. This type of farming is called as jhumming in India.

Multiple choice social science agriculture sector rural credit role of agriculture sector green revolution

___________ were the major source of agricultural credit which accounted for about 70% of agricultural credit in 1950-51.

  1. Moneylenders

  2. Zamindars

  3. Banks

  4. Commission Agents
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A Correct answer
Explanation

In 1950-51, the formal banking sector was underdeveloped in rural areas, leaving farmers heavily dependent on informal sources like moneylenders for credit.

Multiple choice social science agriculture sector rural credit role of agriculture sector green revolution

The major beneficiaries of agricultural credit have been ___________.

  1. large & medium farmers

  2. small & medium farmers

  3. only large farmers

  4. only small farmers
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Studies on agricultural credit in India have shown that large and medium farmers have historically been the primary beneficiaries due to better collateral and access to formal banking.

Multiple choice civics agriculture sector rural credit role of agriculture sector green revolution animal husbandry and fishery cattle farming

Which of the following grains were produced the most during the Indian Green Revolution?

  1. Wheat and Potato

  2. Jowar and Oil Seeds

  3. Wheat and Rice

  4. Tea and Coffee
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Indian green revolution gave major focus on increasing the production of wheat rice, maize, jowar. In the first phase major increase the productivity of wheat were sown and during the second phase rice saw an increase. 

Multiple choice civics agriculture sector rural credit role of agriculture sector green revolution animal husbandry and fishery cattle farming

'Green Revolution' has not been that "Green" as it had been made out to be because of which of the following?

  1. It is confined mainly to wheat

  2. It is confined to selected regions

  3. It and reforms remain unimplemented

  4. Consumption of fertilisers has not picked up
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A Correct answer
Explanation

When it started the focus of the Green Revolution was to be kept on crops like Wheat, Rice, Maize, Jowar. But during the actual implementation and result the main growth has been in the crop of Wheat.