Types of agriculture - class-X
Horticulture means:
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Growing of fruits and vegetables
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Primitive farming
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Growing of wheat
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None of the above
Horticulture is the science and art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants. It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, soil management, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance.
Leading producer of coffee is ______.
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Brazil
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India
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Russia
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America
Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer. In 2016, Brazil produced a staggering 2,595,000 metric tons of coffee beans. It is not a new development, as Brazil has been the highest global producer of coffee beans for over 150 years.
Golden fibre refers to ______.
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Tea
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Cotton
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Jute
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Hemp
Jute is considered as the golden fibre. It is so called because of its shiny brown colour. It is most affordable natural fibre and is 100% biodegradable. It is made of cellulose and lignin plant material. Fertile region necessary for jute production is shared by India and Bangladesh.
Which one of the following is a rabi crop?
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Rice
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Gram
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Millets
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Cotton
Gram is an example of the crop grown in Rabi season. It is also called as spring or winter crop. It is usually harvested in the month of October and harvested by the end of March or April.
Which one of the following describes a system of agriculture where a single crop is grown on a large area?
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Shifting Agriculture
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Plantation Agriculture
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Horticulture
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Intensive Agriculture
Plantation agriculture is a system of agriculture where a single crop is grown on a large area. This type of farming involves the growing and processing of a single cash crop. The plantation is organized on an efficient basis. The land is devoted to a single crop and the entire production is exported. The output of plantation crop is greatly influenced by monopolistic control.
Jhum or shifting cultivation is not practised in ____________.
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Assam
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Nagaland
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Orissa
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U.P.
Which of the following is not a farming practice in India?
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Sedentary peasant agriculture
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Shifting cultivation
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Primitive food gathering
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Capitalist farming
The characteristic of sedentary cultivation is
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The farmers settle down in one particular place
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Agricultural activity is carried on in one place
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Crops are raised only for their domestic animals
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Varieties of crops are grown.
Growing two or three different crops in one agricultural field at the same time is called
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Intensive farming
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Subsistence farming
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Land use
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Commercial farming
Farmers growing crops only to sustain themselves is called __________.
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Subsistence farming
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Intensive farming
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Sugarcane
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Commercial farming
A form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer’s family is known as Subsistence farming. It persists today on a relatively wide scale in various areas of the world. It includes large parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Subsistence farms usually consist of no more than a few acres. The farm technology tends to be primitive and of low yield.
Jhum cultivation is also called as
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Hybrid farming
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Slash and burn farming
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Both A and B
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None of these
Jhum cultivation, also known as the slash and burn agriculture, is the process of growing crops by first clearing the land of trees and vegetation and burning them thereafter.
Which of the following characteristics are true about plantation agriculture?
I. Generally plantation agriculture is considered as an example of subsistence farming.
II. Generally single crop is grown on a large area in plantation agriculture
III. It has an interface of agriculture and industry
IV. It uses capital intensive inputs
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I and IV
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III and IV
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I, II and III
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II, III and IV
Who is putting pressure on India to allow greater imports of crops produced in their countries?
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Developed countries
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Developing countries
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Underdeveloped countries
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Arab countries
Statement I: Shifting cultivation was widely prevalent in different parts of India in the 19th century.
Statement II: More and more people took to shifting cultivation when forests laws were enacted.
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Statement I is true, Statement II is false
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Statement II is true, Statement I is false
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Both Statements are true, Statement II provides explanation to Statement I
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Both Statements are true, Statement II does not provide explanation to Statement I
Statement is true and statement II is false.
The shifting cultivation in the north eastern region of India is called _____.
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Jhuming
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Bewar
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Taungya
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Ladang
Shifting cultivation is practiced in many parts of world with different local names. identify Incorrect pair among following:
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Lading - Southeast Asia
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Milpa - Australia
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Tavy - Africa
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Chena - Sri Lanka
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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Soyabeans add large amounts of carbon dioxide to the soil, which helps the corn crop.
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Both crops require the same fertilizing supplies, so farmers save by buying fertilizer in bulk
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Corn adds large amounts of phosphorus to the soil, which helps the soyabean crop
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The corn crop benefitsfrom reactive nitrogen added to the soil by the soyabean crop
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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Maize
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Rice
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Wheat
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Cotton
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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Intensive subsistence farming
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Commercial
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Primitive subsistence farming
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Plantation
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 ___________.
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strip cropping
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row cropping
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line cropping
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sequence cropping
- 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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Maize
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Wheat
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Gram
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Mustard
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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Mixed cultivation
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Shifting cultivation
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Terrace farming
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Intensive farming
In which of the following states of India is intensive subsistence farming largely practiced?
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Rajasthan
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Gujarat
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West Bengal
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Punjab
- 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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Growing rabi crops and cash crops
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Growing food and non-food crops
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Growing more than one crop in the same field
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Growing kharifand cash crops
When a farmer produces just enough to sustain his family, it is called _________.
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Subsistence agriculture
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Commercial agriculture
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Pastoral farming
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Truck farming
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.
Subsistence farming is practised to meet the needs of _____ family.
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Contractor's
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Jagirdar's
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Owner's
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Farmers
Majority of farmers in India practice subsistence farming. It is characterised by small and scattered landholdings and use of primitive tools, like 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.
Which one of the following has the highest area under jhuming (shifting cultivation)?
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Maharashtra
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Kerala
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Nagaland
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Punjab
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Only 1 is correct
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Only 2 is correct
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Both 1 and 2 are correct
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Neither 1 nor 2 is correct
Which one of the following is not a plantation crop in India?
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Coconut
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Cotton
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Tea
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Rubber
Plantation crops constitute a large group of crops. The major plantation crops include coconut, arecanut, oil palm, cashew, tea, coffee and rubber; the minor plantation crops include cocoa.
In which of the following states is terraced cultivation not practiced?
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Assam
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Haryana
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Nagaland
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TamilNadu
Haryana.
Plantation is also a type of ________.
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Big farming
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Household farming
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Group farming
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Commercial farming
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None of these
Commercial farming.
Which one ofthe following describes a system of agriculture where a single crop is grown on a large area?
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Shifting Agriculture
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Plantation Agriculture
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Horticulture
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Intensive Agriculture
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None of these
The method of farming where cultivation of crops and rearing of animals occur in the same area of land is called?
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Plantation fanning
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Intensive subsistence farming
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Mixed farming
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Extensive commercial farming
Mixed farming is an agricultural system in which a farmer conducts different agricultural practice together, such as cash crops and livestock. The aim is to increase income through different sources and to complement land and labour demands across the year.
High doses of fertilizers and pesticides are used in _____ type of agriculture.
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Primitive subsistence
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Commercial
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Intensive subsistence
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All of these
High yielding variety of seeds and use of chemical fertilisers are widely found in ________.
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Commercial farming
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Sedentary intensive farming
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Shifting cultivation
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Mixed farming
This system of agriculture involves cultivation of crops for sale in the market. These crops are called cash crops. They include sugarcane, tobacco, oilseeds. This type of agriculture involves the use of High Yielding Variety (HYV) seeds, chemical fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides to obtain higher productivity.
Name the King (Sultan) who built Qutub Minar in Delhi.
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Muhammad Ghori
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Sultan Iltutmish
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Sultan Qutub-ud-din Aibak
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None of these
It was started by Qutub-ud-DinAibak and was dedicated to the Sufi saint, Qutub-ud-din Bakhtiyar Kaki, who was greatly venerated by the people of Delhi.
Slash and burn agriculture is also known as _____________.
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Extensive cultivation
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Dry cultivation
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Jhum cultivation
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Fast cultivation
Jhum cultivation, also known as the slash and burn agriculture, is the process of growing crops by first clearing the land of trees and vegetation and burning them thereafter. The burnt soil contains potash which increases the nutrient content of the soil.
In South-East Asia, shifting agriculture is known as ____.
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Chitemene
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Tavy
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Lading
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Milpa
Shifting cultivation is a traditional practice of agriculture prevalent in various parts of Asia, Africa and South-America. It is known as lading in south-east Asia, milpa in Central America, Chitemene or tavy in Africa and Chena in Sri Lanka. In India it has different local names like dhya, penda, bewar, nevad, Jhum, podu.
What were the minimum wages set by the government for a farm labourer?
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$Rs 75$
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$Rs 60$
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$Rs 50$
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$Rs 40$
Which of the following is not associated with Swidden agriculture?
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Karacha
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Jhum
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Bewar
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Panda
One of the major impacts of European colonialism was on the practice of shifting cultivation or swidden agriculture. This is a traditional agricultural practice in many parts of Asia, Africa, and South America. In India, dhya, penda, bewar, nevad, jhum, podu, khandad and kumri are some of the local terms for swidden agriculture. In shifting cultivation, parts of the forest are cut and burnt in rotation. Karacha was a tribal community of Madras Presidency.
Which one of the following is not a plantation crop?
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Rubber
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Sugarcane
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Tea
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Coffee
Plantation crops constitute a large group of crops. The major plantation crops include coconut, oil palm, cashew, tea, coffee and rubber; the minor plantation crops include cocoa.
Jhum Cultivation is a method of cultivation which used to be practiced in ________.
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Central Highland
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Kerala
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Himachal Pradesh
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Coastal Tamil Nadu
Rotation of crop means _______.
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Some crops are grown again and again
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Two or more crops are grown simultaneously to increase productivity
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Growing of different crops in succession to maintain soil fertility
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None of the above
Monoculture is a typical characteristic of ________.
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Shifting cultivation
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Commercial grain farming
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Subsistence farming
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Specialized horticulture
Groundnut, sunflower, gingelly, etc., are ________.
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Commercial crops
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Food crops
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Oil seeds
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Plantation crops
What is subsistence intensive farming?
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Farming for local/self consumption
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Farming for commercial purposes
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Farming for community
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Farming for charity
Farming that is carried on small land holdings that produce food crops for local consumption and not for external trade is known as subsistence intensive farming. Most farmers in Tamil Nadu practice subsistence intensive farming.
Paddy and sugarcane are the main crops grown under _______.
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Irrigation farming
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Subsistence farming
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Plantation farming
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None of the above
The cultivation of crops on a small scale to meet the consumption needs of the family is called _________.
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Commercial farming
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Subsistence farming
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Irrigation farming
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Plantation farming
Subsistence farming
Which one of the following farming practices is banned at present?
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Intensive farming
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Shifting cultivation
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Mixed farming
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Subsistence farming
An agricultural system in which a person uses a piece of land only to abandon or alter the initial use a short time later is known as shifting cultivation. This system often involves clearing of a piece of land followed by several years of wood harvesting or farming until the soil loses fertility. Once the land becomes inadequate for crop production, it is left to be reclaimed by natural vegetation, or sometimes converted to a different long term cyclical farming practice. Ecological consequences from shifting cultivation are often deleterious. Shifting cultivation results in infertility of land. That’s why it is banned at present.
If the crops are grown for own use without commercial objective, then such type of farming is called _______.
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Primitive farming
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Subsistence farming
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Commercial farming
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Primitive commercial farming
The farming in which crops are raised and rearing of livestock is carried out in the same field is __________.
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Primitive farming
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Commercial farming
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Mixed farming
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Plantation farming
A type of farming in which production of crops is done with rearing of livestock on one farm is known as mixed farming. It is a system of farming in which a farmer conducts different types of agricultural practices together. Mixed farming is done with the view of increasing his income through different sources. Mixed farming is the combining of two independent agricultural enterprises on the same farm.
______% of the pulses grown in Madhya Prades.
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45
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55
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40
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23
______% of the total cultivable land in India is irrigated.
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55
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60
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35
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75
The agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot is called _______.
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Shifting Cultivation
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Plantation farming
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Hybrid farming
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Crop rotation
Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot.
In Karnataka, shifting cultivation is called ________.
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Ponama
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Podu
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Kumari
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Jhuming
Shifting farming, an ancient type of farming is practiced by some tribal people from the outskirts of cities and villages in India. It is a form of agriculture in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored. Major crops like rice, corn, jowar, bajra, ragi, chillies, oil-seeds, etc are grown under shifting cultivation. It is known by various names in various regions like Kumari in Karnataka and Ponam in Kerala.
In areas where the rainfall is low and irrigation facilities are inadequate,the land farming carried out there is known as ________.
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Shifting agriculture
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Wet -farming
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Dry farming
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Biological farming
A type of farming practiced in arid areas without irrigation by planting drought-resistant crops or by employing moisture-enhancing techniques is called dry farming. Crops adapted to dry farming are usually smaller and quicker to mature than those grown under more humid conditions and are usually allotted more space. Dry farmed crops may include grapes, tomatoes, pumpkins, beans, etc.
The farming which is characterized by small and scattered land holding and with the use of primitive tools is called ____________.
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dry and wet farming
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subsistence farming
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shifting agriculture
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intensive farming
Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to feed themselves and their families. In subsistence agriculture, farm output is targeted to survival and is mostly for local requirements with little or no surplus trade.
What is the other name of slash and burn agriculture?
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Mixed agriculture
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Plantation agriculture
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Shifting Agriculture
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Subsistence agriculture
Shifting agriculture is a type agricultural practice where a plot of land is clean and cultivation is done for a couple of years. After a few years when the fertility level of the soil decreases they leave that plot and shift to some other land. This type of cultivation is named differently in different places. Shifting cultivation is also known as slash and burn agriculture.
Farmers in India mostly engaged in which type of farming?
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Shifting farming
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Plantation farming
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Dry and wet farming
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Intensive subsistence agriculture
Organic farming is a system which avoids or largely excludes the use of __________.
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Synthetic fertilizers
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Pesticides
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Hormones
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All of the above
Which of the following agricultural products, farmers can not export directly?
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Food grains
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Vegetables
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Flowers
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Fruits
Food grains.
Which of the following is the aim of organic farming?
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To produce crop with high nutritional value
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To maintain and improve long term fertility and sustainability of farmland
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Both A and B
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None of these
The aim of organic farming is to establish and maintain soil-plant, plant- animal and animal soil interdependence and to create a sustainable agro- ecological system based on local resources, approaching in this way the concept of functional integrity of systems. Organic farming uses environmentally friendly methods of crop and livestock production, without use of synthetic fertilizers, growth hormones, growth enhancing antibiotics, synthetic pesticides or gene manipulation. Nevertheless, organic livestock farming is not a production method which solves all problems in livestock production sustainability. As of today, it is largely seen primarily as a production method for a specific premium market requiring special management qualifications. Its high capability for meeting increased consumer demand for environmentally friendly products is associated with better quality of products alongside animal welfare.
In which farming method the yield is low?
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intensive farming
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extensive farming
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commercial cultivation
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plantation agriculture
Extensive Farming
Which of the following is a new bio-fertilizers?
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Green Blue Algae
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Nitrates
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Compost
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Farmyard manure
The largest area under plantation in India is in _______.
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Kerala
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Karnataka
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Tamil Nadu
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Assam
The largest area under plantation in India is in Assam. Assam produces the largest volume of tea from India. It's renowned for its strong, malty black teas.
Which of the following is NOT a plantation crop?
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Coconut
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Potato
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Oil Palm
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Cashew
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Rubber
Potato.
About area is rain fed in India.
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One third
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One half
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Sixty per cent
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Three fourth
In India, about 60% of total net sown area comes under rainfed lands.
To produce best results from HYV seeds we need _______.
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Manure fertilizer
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Cow dung
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Good sunlight
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Plenty of water
HYV seeds stand for HEIGH YIELDING VARIETY. These are the good quality of seeds and produce a higher yield on a small piece of land but need plenty of water to produce the best results and they also increase the income of the farmers.
Which of the following is the local name of shifting cultivation in Sri Lanka?
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Milpa
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Chitemene
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Chena
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Podu
Shifting cultivation is a traditional practice of agriculture prevalent in various parts of Asia, Africa and South-America. It is known as lading in south-east Asia, milpa in Central America, Chitemene or tavy in Africa and Chena in Sri Lanka. In India it has different local names like dhya, penda, bewar, nevad, Jhum, podu.
Which of the following is not a problem created by the Green Revolution?
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Conflict between large and small farmers
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Conflict between industrial workers and farm workers
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Conflict between owners and tenant farmers
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Conflict between employers and employees on agricultural farms
The Green Revolution is a term used for ____________________.
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Increasing the area under forests
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Growing more trees
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Use of new technology for expansion in area under crops and increase of production and productivity in agriculture
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None of these
The Bhakra-Nangal dam is in the state of _____.
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Punjab, Himachal Pradesh
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Odisha
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Andhra Pradesh
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Madhya Pradesh
The _____ revolution helped farmers to produce higher level of foodgrains and non-foodgrains on the same plot of land.
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Blue
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White
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Green
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Red
Green revolution was introduced as a package programme with seed-water-fertilizer-pesticide-technology components. It was launched in Kharif of 1966-67. Its main objective was to attain self-sufficiency in food by 1970-71. This programme was mainly launched to increase the productivity of food grains by adopting latest varieties of inputs of crops. The green revolution helped farmers to produce higher level of food grains and non-food grains on the same plot of land.
The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences was founded by Mahendralal Sircar.
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True
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False
True.
HYV seeds stand for __________.
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Heavy yielding variety seeds
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High yielding variety seeds
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Half yielding variety seeds
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None of these
HYV stands for High yield variety ..seeds.