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Cotton is a _____________.

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  1. Food crop

  2. Cash crop

  3. Plantation crop

  4. Dry crop

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Cash crop
In modern agriculture, particularly when you cultivate large plots of land, it concentrates on growing crops for money. 
A cash crop is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. The term is used to differentiate marketed crops from subsistence crops, which are those fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for the producer's family. In earlier times cash crops were usually only a small part of a farm's total yield, while today, especially in developed countries, almost all crops are mainly grown for revenue.

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For growing cotton ________ soil is ideal.

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  1. Black

  2. Red

  3. Laterite

  4. Sandy

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The soils are generally rich in montmorillonitic and beidellitic group of clay minerals. Black soils are most suitable for the cotton crop hence it is also known as black cotton soil. Besides cotton, the soil is suitable for the cultivation of crops like wheat, groundnut, chillies, tobacco and jowar.

Cotton provides raw material for _____.

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  1. Paper industry

  2. Cotton textile industry

  3. Chemical industry

  4. Paint industry

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • India is one of the important cotton-manufacturing countries of the world.
  •  Both short-staple and long-staple cotton is grown in the country.
  • The cotton textile industry requires raw cotton as principal raw material and chemicals like caustic soda, dyes, arrowroot or starch, etc. for its production. 
  • The cotton growing regions are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, etc.

_______ Soil is suitable for the cultivation of cotton.

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  1. Alluvial

  2. Laterite

  3. Terai

  4. Regur

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Regur is a type of Black soil.
The soils are generally rich in montmorillonitic and beidellitic group of clay minerals. Black soils are most suitable for the cotton crop hence it is also known as black cotton soil. Besides cotton, the soil is suitable for the cultivation of crops like wheat, groundnut, chillies, tobacco and jowar

The "Golden fibre crop" is ___________.

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  1. Tea

  2. Coffee

  3. Tobacco

  4. Jute

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Jute is extracted from the bark of the white jute plant (Corchorus capsularis) and to a lesser extent from tossa jute (C. olitorius). It is a natural fibre with golden and silky shine and hence called theGolden Fibre. Jute is an annualcrop taking about 120 days (April/May-July/August) to grow.

Locate the following cotton textile centres in the outline map of India provided to you.

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  1. Mumbai

  2. Delhi

  3. Kolkata and

  4. Chennai

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Correct Option: A

How many varieties of cotton are grown in India?

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  1. 2

  2. 3

  3. 4

  4. 7

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 There are four commercially grown species of cotton, all domesticated in antiquity: Gossypium hirsutum – upland cotton, native to Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean and southern Florida (90% of world production)

Jute requires _____________.

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  1. Moist climate

  2. Much rain

  3. Hot climate

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A

The concentration of jute industry is in _________.

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  1. Tamil Nadu

  2. Jammu & Kashmir

  3. West Bengal

  4. Odisha

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Correct Option: B

Which one of the following is known as the golden fibre?

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  1. Cotton

  2. Jute

  3. Hemp

  4. Silk

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Jute
Jute is extracted from the bark of the white jute plant (Corchorus capsularis) and to a lesser extent from tossa jute (C. olitorius). It is a natural fibre with golden and silky shine and hence called the Golden Fibre. Jute is an annual crop taking about 120 days (April/May-July/August) to grow. Also, since jute is a cash crop, its cultivation can bring in lot of money.