Chapter-4[Agriculture]
1. ------------ of India's population is engaged in agricultural activities.
a) One-half
b) One-thirds
c) two-thirds
d) two-fifth
Answer. c) two-thirds
2. ‘slash and burn’ agriculture comes under which type of farming?
a) Primitive Subsistence Farming
b) Intensive Subsistence Farming
c) Commercial Farming
d) Commercial dairy farming
Answer. a) Primitive Subsistence Farming
3. Pamlou farming is famous in which state?
a) Nagaland
b) Manipur
c) Arunachal Pradesh
d) Mizoram
Answer. b) Manipur; Pamlou is the local name-shifting cultivation.
4. What is the local name of ‘slash and burn agriculture in the Bastar district of Chhattishgarh?
a) Jhumming
b) Dipa
c) ‘Podu’ or ‘Penda’
d) ‘Bewar’ or ‘Dahiya
Answer. b) Dipa
5. What is the local name of ‘slash and burn agriculture in Madhya Pradesh?
a) Jhumming
b) ‘Pama Dabi’ or ‘Koman’ or Bringa
c) ‘Podu’ or ‘Penda’
d) ‘Bewar’ or ‘Dahiya
Answer. d) ‘Bewar’ or ‘Dahiya
5. What is the local name of ‘slash and burn agriculture in Odisha?
a) Jhumming
b) ‘Pama Dabi’ or ‘Koman’ or Bringa
c) ‘Podu’ or ‘Penda’
d) Kumari
Answer. b) ‘Pama Dabi’ or ‘Koman’ or Bringa
6. What is the local name of ‘slash and burn agriculture in Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland?
a) Jhumming
b) ‘Pama Dabi’ or ‘Koman’ or Bringa
c) ‘Podu’ or ‘Penda’
d) Kumari
Answer. a) Jhumming
7. What is the local name of ‘slash and burn agriculture in Andhra Pradesh?
a) Khil
b) ‘Valre’ or ‘Waltre’
c) ‘Podu’ or ‘Penda’
d) Kumari
Answer. c) ‘Podu’ or ‘Penda’
8. What is the local name of ‘slash and burn agriculture in South-eastern Rajasthan?
a) Khil
b) Valre or Waltre
c) Kuruwa
d) Kumari
Answer. b) ‘Valre’ or ‘Waltre’
9. What is the local name of ‘slash and burn agriculture in Jharkhand?
a) Khil
b) Valre or Waltre
c) Kuruwa
d) Kumari
Answer. c) Kuruwa
10. What is the local name of ‘slash and burn agriculture in the Himalayan Belt?
a) Khil
b) Valre or Waltre
c) Kuruwa
d) Kumari
Answer. a) Khil
11. What is the local name of ‘slash and burn agriculture in the Western Ghats?
a) Khil
b) Valre or Waltre
c) Kuruwa
d) Kumari
Answer. d) Kumari
12. Which of the following is not matched?
The local name of Slash and burn agriculture: Country
a) Milpa: Mexico and Central America
b) Conoco: Venezuela
c) Roca: Indonesia
d) Masole: Central Africa
Answer. c) Roca: Brazil
13. What is the local name of Slash and burn agriculture in Indonesia?
a) Ray
b) Ladang
c) Roca
d) Milpa
Answer. b) Ladang
14. Which type of farming practice is done in the areas of high population pressure on land?
a) Primitive farming
b) Intensive Subsistence Farming
c) Commercial farming
d) Plantation farming
Answer. b) Intensive Subsistence Farming
15. In which farming practice, does the use of higher doses of modern inputs such as high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, chemical fertilisers, insecticides, and pesticides in order to obtain higher productivity?
a) Primitive farming
b) Intensive Subsistence Farming
c) Commercial farming
d) Plantation farming
Answer. c) Commercial farming
16. Which of the following are not plantation crops?
a) tea and coffee
b) rubber and sugarcane
c) banana and bamboo
d) Paddy
Answer. d) Paddy
17. In which state three crops of paddy are not grown in a year?
a) Punjab
b) Assam
b) West Bengal
c) Odisha
Answer. a) Punjab
18. Aus, Aman, and Boro are varieties of which crop?
a) Paddy
b) Wheat
c) Cotton
d) Silk
Answer. a) Paddy
19. Which of the following crops requires high temperature, (above 25°C) and high humidity with annual rainfall above 100 cm?
a) Paddy
b) Wheat
c) Barley
d) Cotton
Answer. a) Paddy
20. Which of the following crop is a rabi crop and requires a cool growing season and bright sunshine at the time of ripening. It requires 50 to 75 cm of annual rainfall evenly distributed over the growing season?
a) Paddy
b) Wheat
c) Barley
d) Cotton
Answer. b) Wheat
21. Which of the following is a Millets crop?
a) Jowar
b) Bajra
c) Ragi
d) All of the above
Answer. d) All of the above
22. -------- is the third most important food crop with respect to the area and production.
a) Paddy
b) Wheat
c) Jowar
d) Maize
Answer. c) Jowar; Jowar crops are grown in rainfed areas.
23. Which of the following is not a major Jowar producing state?
a) Maharashtra
b) Karnataka
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Tamil Nadu
Answer. d) Tamil Nadu; it is Madhya Pradesh.
24. In which state, Maize is grown in rabi season?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Bihar
d) West Bengal
Answer. c) Bihar
25. Which of the following is not a major maize-producing state?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Karnataka
d) West Bengal
Answer. d) West Bengal; Major maize-producing states are Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, UP, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.
26. India is the second-largest producer of sugarcane only after ----------.
a) Australia
b) China
c) the USA
d) Brazil
Answer. d) Brazil
27. India was the second-largest producer of groundnut in the world after ------.
a) Australia
b) China
c) the USA
d) Brazil
Answer. b) China
28. ------------ was the largest producer of groundnut followed by Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.
a) Gujarat
b) Maharashtra
c) Rajasthan
d) Andhra Pradesh
Answer. a) Gujarat
29. The ------- plant grows well in tropical and sub-tropical climates endowed with deep and fertile well-drained soil, rich in humus and organic matter.
a) Coffee
b) Tea
c) Cotton
d) Sugarcane
Answer. b) Tea; Tea bushes require a warm and moist frost-free climate.
30. India was the second-largest producer of tea after -----.
a) Indonesia
b) China
c) the USA
d) Brazil
Answer. b) China
31. Arabica is a variety of?
a) Tea
b) Cotton
c) Coffee
d) Silk
Answer. c) Coffee
32. ‘Land reform’ was the main focus of our ---------- Five Year Plan.
a) First
b) Second
c) Third
d) Fourth
Answer. a) First
33. According to the census of India in 2011 about ----------- percent of the total workforce was engaged in agriculture and allied sector activities.
a) 45.9
b) 53.45
c) 54.60
d) 75.54
Answer. c) 54.60
34. the Champaran movement which started in ------------- in Bihar.
a) 1915
b) 1916
c) 1917
d) 1919
Answer. c) 1917
35. Jatropha and Jojoba plants are examples of?
a) Medicinal plants
b) bio-diesel plants
c) Herbs
d) grasses
Answer. b) bio-diesel plants
36. Which one of the following describes a system of agriculture where a single crop is grown on a large area?
a) Shifting Agriculture
b) Plantation Agriculture
c) Horticulture
d) Intensive Agriculture
Answer. b) Plantation Agriculture
37. Which one of the following is a rabi crop?
a) Rice
b) Gram
c) Millets
d) Cotton
Answer. b) Gram
38. Which one of the following is a leguminous crop?
a) Pulses
b) Jawar
c) Millets
d) Sesamum
Answer. a) Pulses
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