Tag: geography

Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon in the Siberian region of Russia are famously known as the 'Cold Pole' of the Northern Hemisphere due to their extremely low temperatures.

The Giant Panda, is a native to South Central China. It is easily recognized by the large, distinctive black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. It is widely used within China in international contexts, for example as in the Beijing Olympic .

Dakshin Gangotri was the first Indian scientific research base station established in Antarctica as part of the Indian Antarctic Programme.

Antarctica is the southernmost continent of the earth. It is the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world. It was in 1820 when the human first set foot in this place.

It is the continent that has lowest human population. The population is around 4000 in summer and 1000 in winter. This population is constituted by research teams of various countries.

Antarctica is the southernmost continent of the earth. It is the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world. It was in 1820 when the human first set foot in this place.

Among the given options it is the only continent without desert.

Monoculture is the agricultural practice of producing or growing single crop year after year and all around the year in a field at a time.

A.  Tea and Rubber

The tea bush grows best in areas of abundant rainfall, gravelly soils well-drained hill-slopes (usually between 910-1,218 meters of altitude) in a warm climate. The leaves are handpicked involving a good deal of painstaking and methodical effort. The availability of an abundant supply of labour is essential for harvesting.

In Vietnam the French set up estates (planta­tions) in the Central Annamese Mountains under environmental conditions some­what similar to those prevailing in Indonesia. Rubber (natural) is the major planta­tion crop of Southeast Asia.

Dry farming is done in the region of scanty rainfall where rain is less than 50 cm. Under this method the land is terraced and divided into compartments and rainwater is allowed to move under a controlled condition. The land is deeply ploughed and repeated harrowings before sowing in order to conserve soil moisture are undertaken. This dry farming method is too expensive. 

India has three cropping season - Kharif, Rabi, and Zayad.

Ratooning is associated with Sugarcane crops.  This is the best method of growing sugarcane. In this method, after harvesting , the lower part of the plant and the roots are left as they were in the field. This give a new crop for the next year without fresh planting. This way the cane can be produced  for three successive years .