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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.

Plantation and food cropsCrop cultivation regionsLand measurement unitsAgricultural storage techniquesIntercropping systemsWater resource management

Agricultural Practices in India Questions

Multiple choice economics how does production take place? natural resources- air, water and land land land,labour, capital and entrepreneur production mechanism

Which of these is an example of Land as a Factor of Production?

  1. Agricultural Lands

  2. Forests

  3. Diamond Mines

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In economics, land includes all natural resources provided by nature, including agricultural soil, forests, and mineral deposits found in mines.

Multiple choice history what is history? historiography in the west historiography: development in the west historiography: indian tradition

The Indigo farmers (ryots) were facing oppressive conditions for a long time. Howere, they decided to rebel against a loan.

  1. ryots had to sign an agreement for planting indigo against a loan.

  2. planters forced the ryots to plant indigo on the best soil meant for cultivating rice.

  3. the price that the ryots got for the indigo, was very low and the cycle of loans never ended.

  4. ryots had the support of local zamindars, village headmen as well as of the British Government.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The local zamindar and village headmen mobilized the indigo peasants and fought pitched battles with the lathiyas.

Multiple choice zoology microbes in human welfare biofertilizers microbes as biocontrol agents and biofertilizers manuring

Azolla pinnate is allowed to grow in rice fields because.

  1. It does not disturb photosynthesis of Rice plants

  2. It provides food to fish

  3. It provides aeration to standing water

  4. It contains Anabaena
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Azolla free-floating freshwater fern that harbors nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena azollae by symbiosis relationship in its dorsal leaves. It is capable of fixing atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen and is known as a potent nitrogen fixer.

This nitrogen-fixing capacity helps the plant benefit in a positive manner with the increase in yield and size and it served as the nitrogen requirement for rice.

Multiple choice history cultural heritage of india: sculpture and architecture ancient civilizations in river valleys historic period sculpture and architecture

What were the crops raised by the Harappans?
I. Cotton
II. Wheat
III. Barley
IV. Peas
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

  1. I, II, III and IV

  2. I, II and III

  3. II, III and IV

  4. II and III
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Archaeological evidence from Harappan sites confirms the cultivation of a wide variety of crops, including wheat, barley, peas, and cotton.

Multiple choice botany biotechnology and its applications biotechnology in agriculture gm crops transgenic organisms

Golden rice is _____________________.

  1. A variety of rice grown along the yellow river in China

  2. Long stored rice having yellow cocur tint
  3. A transgenic rice having gene for $\beta$-carotene

  4. Wild variety of rice with yellow colored grains
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Golden rice is a transgenic variety of rice (Oryza Sativa) which contains good quantities of $\beta$-carotene ( provitamin A- inactive state of vitamin A). $\beta$-carotene is a principle source of vitamin A. Since the grains (seeds) of the rice are yellow in colour due to $\beta$-carotene, the rice is commonly called golden rice. 

Multiple choice botany biotechnology and its applications biotechnology in agriculture gm crops transgenic organisms

Give example of a GM crop that can tolerate abiotic stress. 

  1. Transgenic tomato

  2. Bt-Brinjal

  3. Golden rice

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

Transgenic tomato has been genetically engineered to have resistance to abiotic stress.

By Brinjal has pest resistance.
Golden rice is genetically engineered to have higher nutritional value.
Pomato is grafted from shoot of tomato plants and root of potato plant to obtain two products from the same plant.
So the correct answer is ' Transgenic tomato'.

Multiple choice botany biotechnology and its applications biotechnology in agriculture gm crops transgenic organisms

The genetically modified crops introduced in India are

  1. Cotton

  2. Mustard

  3. Wild plants

  4. Both A and B
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Genetically modified crops (GMCs, GM crops, or biotech crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering techniques. In most cases, the aim is to introduce a new trait to the plant which does not occur naturally in the species. For example, in food crops include resistance to certain pests, diseases or environmental conditions, reduction of spoilage, resistance to chemical treatments (e.g., resistance to a herbicide) or improving the nutrient profile of the crop. GM mustard is being developed to increase the productivity of mustard to meet the ever-growing demand for edible oil in the country. Bt cotton is a genetically modified variety of cotton producing an insecticide. It is produced by Monsanto. It is supplied in India's Maharashtra state.

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice botany biotechnology and its applications biotechnology in agriculture gm crops transgenic organisms

A transgenic food crop which may help solving the problem as night blindness in developing countries

  1. Flavr Savr tomatoes

  2. Starlink maize

  3. Bt soybean

  4. Golden rice
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Night blindness is the inability to see normally in subdued light. It is usually a result of vitamin A deficiency. Golden rice is such a biofortified crop. Golden rice grains are easily recognisable by their yellow to orange colour. The stronger the colour the more carotene. Rice produces provitamin A (carotene) in the leaves but not in the grain, where the biosynthetic pathway is turned off during plant development. In golden rice, two genes have been inserted into the rice genome by genetic engineering, to restart the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway leading to the production and accumulation of carotene in the grains. Both genes are naturally involved in carotene biosynthesis. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.