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Agricultural Practices and Land Use

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Access a comprehensive collection of questions on agricultural practices and land use planning. The topics span organic farming, sustainable agriculture, soil conservation, and crop rotation. These concepts are essential for general awareness preparation across banking, railway, and civil services examinations.

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Agricultural Practices and Land Use Questions

Multiple choice economics the story of village palampur farming and non-farming activities in village non - economic activities economy of a village

The per hectare production of agricultural crops is less in India. Which of the following is not a reason for that?

  1. Literate farmers

  2. Social causes, small farms, less agricultural land.

  3. Inadequate irrigation facility.

  4. Lack of scientific approach.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
The reasons for less  per hectare production of agricultural crops is less in India are:
1. Population pressure
2. Small farms - This creates difficulties in the application of modern inputs, adoption of scientific land improvement, water conservation, and plant protection measures.
3. Inadequate Irrigation Facilities
4. Illiteracy of farmers - They are not aware of modern technologies, their rights, etc which leads to their exploitation and eventually affects production.
Multiple choice gujarat: agriculture, industry and transportation transport, communication and trade geography

What is the main reason for the development of agriculture in Gujarat?

  1. Increase in rainfall

  2. Increase in irrigation facilities

  3. Increase in use of organic fertilizers

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

In Gujarat, the main reason for the development of agriculture is the increase in irrigation facilities. Generally, irrigation means supplying water to the fields through the manmade sources like wells, under-ground water, small and big dams etc. This process is called irrigation. There are other projects for irrigation like the Narmada project where water is conserved in dams. Water is supplied to farms through canals.

Multiple choice botany economically useful plants and entrepreneurial botany horticulture organic farming horticulture and organic farming

Organic farming includes :

  1. Use of fertilisers and pesticides of biological origin

  2. IPM (Integrated Pest Management)

  3. Locally developed pest resistant varieties

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
 Organic farming includes the use of fertilizers and pesticides of biological origin, PM (Integrated Pest Management), locally developed pest-resistant varieties.
So, the correct option is 'All of these'
Multiple choice botany economically useful plants and entrepreneurial botany horticulture organic farming horticulture and organic farming

.......... is a farming system with minimal or no use of chemicals such as fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides.

  1. Subsistence farming

  2. Ley farming

  3. Organic farming

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

Organic farming is a form of agricultural practices in which all the natural technique and products are used  such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control instead of chemically synthesized fertilizers or pest control. Thus, the organic farming is a farming system with minimal or no use of chemicals such as fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides.

Multiple choice botany economically useful plants and entrepreneurial botany horticulture organic farming horticulture and organic farming

Organic farming is a farming system with minimal or no use of chemicals such as

  1. Fertilizers

  2. Herbicides

  3. Pesticides

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
Organic farming is a form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost, and biological pest control. Organic farming is a farming system with minimal or no use of chemicals such as fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides.
Thus, the correct answer is option D.
Multiple choice organisation of commerce and management micro, medium and small enterprises (msmes) nabard and kvic funding and assistance to small businesses privileges and other promotional measures for msmes world bank

Biofertilisers and biopesticides production Units can benefit from the _______ scheme. 

  1. Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Scheme

  2. Agricultural and Marketing Infrastructure, Grading and Standardization

  3. Capital Investment Subsidy Scheme for Commercial Production Units for organic/ biological Inputs

  4. Agriclinic and Agribusiness Centres Scheme
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
CAPITAL INVESTMENT SUBSIDY SCHEME FOR COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION UNITS FOR ORGANIC/ BIOLOGICAL INPUTS
The increasing and indiscriminate use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and deteriorating soil health and productivity is concerning people all over the world. Growing awareness for safe and healthy food has underlined the importance of organic farming, which is a holistic system based on the basic principle of minimizing the use of external inputs and avoiding the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. 
Multiple choice economics plant breeding green revolution in india crop revolutions green revolution

Which is the technology included in Green revolution?

  1. Synthetic fertilizer

  2. Pesticides

  3. Irrigation

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

The Green Revolution involved a package of agricultural technologies to boost yields. This included the use of synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides, and improved irrigation systems alongside high-yielding variety seeds.

Multiple choice economics agriculture sector profile of indian agriculture and agricultural marketing role of agriculture sector foreign trade in india

Since when has Indian agriculture become modern?

  1. There has been an increase in the use of high yielding varieties of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides etc.

  2. There has been noticeable positive change in the attitude of farmers towards new techniques of production.

  3. Farmers are increasingly resorting to intensive cultivation, multiple cropping and scientific water management.

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

Modernization of agriculture involves a combination of technological inputs (seeds, fertilizers), improved farming practices, and a shift in the mindset of farmers toward scientific management.

Multiple choice geography agriculture in india - ii : food crops pulses cultivation in india production of agricultural crops food crops in india

What is the main advantage of transplantation method in rice cultivation?

  1. This method ensures maximum utilization of land

  2. It is helpful in achieving an economical use of water and a highest yield

  3. It helps in early harvesting

  4. The draining of water from the field before harvesting is made easy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
Advantages of transplanting:

Plant population becomes more assured.
Since nurseries occupy only 1/10 of area of the main crop, the irrigation, control of insects and diseases and other management become easier to reduce the cost of raising seedlings as compared to a broadcast wet crop of the same age. Nurseries raised in advance, enable the crop to be planted in the field at the right time.
The seedlings are grown up at the time of transplanting and they are able to compete with young weeds that spring up. Weed control and other inter-cultural operation are much easier, particularly in row planting.
Multiple choice evs improvement in food resources crop yield improvement food supply crop improvement methods and organisations

A system of rotating crops with legume or grass pasture to improve soil structure and fertility is called

  1. Shifting agriculture

  2. Ley farming

  3. Contour farming

  4. Strip farming
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The process of growing of grass or legumes in rotation with grain or tilled crops as a soil conservation method is called Ley farming

So, the correct answer is 'Ley farming' 

Multiple choice evs improvement in food resources crop yield improvement food supply crop improvement methods and organisations

Which of the following methods of cultivation makes soil fertile?

  1. Excessive use of chemical fertilizers

  2. Extensive cultivation

  3. Crop rotation

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

Crop rotation is the practice of growing of different types of crops in alternate season. The cash crops grown in one season is replaced by leguminous plants in the other season. The nutrients which are used up by the previous crops are regained by the second crops. So, crop rotation maintains soil fertility and prevents soil erosion.

So, the correct answer is option C.