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Shifting cultivation is practiced in many parts of world with different local names. identify Incorrect pair among following: 

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  1. Lading - Southeast Asia

  2. Milpa - Australia

  3. Tavy - Africa

  4. Chena - Sri Lanka

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Shifting Cultivation is practiced in different regions of world with local names. 
Lading - Southeast Asia ; Milpa - Central USA(Not in Australia) ; Tavy - Africa ; Chena - Sri Lanka. 

Some farmers rotate their crops from year to year, switching from soyabeans to corn on the same fields. What is one of the advantages of doing this?

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  1. Soyabeans add large amounts of carbon dioxide to the soil, which helps the corn crop.

  2. Both crops require the same fertilizing supplies, so farmers save by buying fertilizer in bulk

  3. Corn adds large amounts of phosphorus to the soil, which helps the soyabean crop

  4. The corn crop benefitsfrom reactive nitrogen added to the soil by the soyabean crop

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

In addition to increasing corn yields and cutting nitrogen expense, keeping soyabeans in the rotation lowers next years corn rootworm management costs.

The crop grown in shifting cultivation is _____.

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  1. Maize

  2. Rice

  3. Wheat

  4. Cotton

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A plot of land is cleared by felling the trees and burning them. The ashes are then mixed with the soil and crops like maize, yam, potatoes and cassava are grown. After the soil loses its fertility, the land is abandoned and the cultivator moves to a new plot. Shifting cultivation is also known as ‘slash and burn’ agriculture. 

A single crop grown on a large area and using intensive capital inputs are some of the major features of __________ type of agriculture.

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  1. Intensive subsistence farming

  2. Commercial

  3. Primitive subsistence farming

  4. Plantation

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The plantation has an interface of agriculture and industry. Plantations cover large tracts of land, using capital intensive inputs, with the help of migrant labourers. All the produce is used as raw material in respective industries. In India, tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, banana, etc.. are important plantation crops. 

The growing of grasses in between rows of crops is known as ___________.

geography human environment interactions: the tropical and the subtropical region plantation of crops agricultural nature of indian economy the nature of the indian economy part 1

  1. strip cropping

  2. row cropping

  3. line cropping

  4. sequence cropping

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
  • Crops are grown in alternate strips of land to check the impact of the winds.
  • It is used when a slope is too steep or when there is no alternative method of preventing soil erosion.
  • Strip cropping helps to stop soil erosion by creating natural dams for water, helping to preserve the strength of the soil.

Which one out of the following is a 'Kharif crop'?

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  1. Maize

  2. Wheat

  3. Gram

  4. Mustard

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Kharif crops are grown with the onset of monsoon in different parts of the country and these are harvested in September-October. Important crops grown during this season are paddy, maize, jowar, bajra, tur (arhar), moong, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut and soyabean. 

The north-eastern and central India have been deforested due to ________.

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  1. Mixed cultivation

  2. Shifting cultivation

  3. Terrace farming

  4. Intensive farming

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Shifting cultivation
Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which areas of land are cultivated for a short time. Then they are left to grow back their natural vegetation, while the farmer moves to another area. Shiting cultivation is particularly practiced on a large scale in north-eastern and central India.
However, the greatest damage inflicted on Indian forests was during the colonial period due to the expansion of the railways, agriculture, commercial and scientific forestry, and mining activities. Even after Independence, agricultural expansion continues to be one of the major causes of the depletion of forest resources. 

In which of the following states of India is intensive subsistence farming largely practiced?

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  1. Rajasthan

  2. Gujarat

  3. West Bengal

  4. Punjab

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:
  • This type of farming is practiced in areas of high population pressure on land. It is labour intensive farming, where high doses of biochemical inputs and irrigation are used for obtaining higher production. 
  • In India, the farmers of West Bengal, Kerala, the coastal Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu provide a good example of intensive subsistence wet paddy agriculture .

'Mixed farming' refers to __________.

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  1. Growing rabi crops and cash crops

  2. Growing food and non-food crops

  3. Growing more than one crop in the same field

  4. Growing kharifand cash crops

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:
In mixed farming the land is used for growing food and fodder crops and rearing livestock. Two or more crops are grown together. 

When a farmer produces just enough to sustain his family, it is called _________.

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  1. Subsistence agriculture

  2. Commercial agriculture

  3. Pastoral farming

  4. Truck farming

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Subsistence farming is characterised by small and scattered land holdings and the use of primitive tools, like a hoe and digging sticks by family members. As the farmers are poor, they do not use fertilisers or (HYV) seeds in their fields. Most of the food production is consumed by the farmers and their families.