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Types of agriculture - class-X

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Horticulture means:

  1. Growing of fruits and vegetables

  2. Primitive farming

  3. Growing of wheat

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

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 ______.

  1. Brazil

  2. India

  3. Russia

  4. America


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

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 ______.

  1. Tea

  2. Cotton

  3. Jute

  4. Hemp


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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?

  1. Rice

  2. Gram

  3. Millets

  4. Cotton


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

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?

  1. Shifting Agriculture

  2. Plantation Agriculture

  3. Horticulture

  4. Intensive Agriculture


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

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.

Which of the following is not a farming practice in India?

  1. Sedentary peasant agriculture

  2. Shifting cultivation

  3. Primitive food gathering

  4. Capitalist farming


Correct Option: C

The characteristic of sedentary cultivation is

  1. The farmers settle down in one particular place

  2. Agricultural activity is carried on in one place

  3. Crops are raised only for their domestic animals

  4. Varieties of crops are grown.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
A method of agriculture in which the same land is farmed every year is known as sedentary cultivation. Agricultural activity is carried on in one place. It is the most primitive form of cultivation. Due to sedentary cultivation, the soil becomes less nutrient-rich. Sedentary farming was developed independently in Eurasia and America.

Growing two or three different crops in one agricultural field at the same time is called 

  1. Intensive farming

  2. Subsistence farming

  3. Land use

  4. Commercial farming


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Intensive Subsistence Farming
This is yet another variation of subsistence farming. In this method, cultivation happens across larger areas of land and thus, it is labor intensive. Also, to get a high quantity of produce chemical fertilizers and different irrigation methods are used to yield more crops.

Crops grown: Intensive subsistence farming yields two types of crops- wet and dry. While the wet crops include paddy, the dry ones vary from wheat, pulses, maize, millets, to sorghum, soya-beans, tubers, and vegetables.

Farmers growing crops only to sustain themselves is called __________.

  1. Subsistence farming

  2. Intensive farming

  3. Sugarcane

  4. Commercial farming


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

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 

  1. Hybrid farming

  2. Slash and burn farming

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

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

  1. I and IV

  2. III and IV

  3. I, II and III

  4. II, III and IV


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
True,
Generally single crop is grown on a large area in plantation agriculture
 It has an interface of agriculture and industry
 It uses capital intensive inputs

Who is putting pressure on India to allow greater imports of crops produced in their countries?

  1. Developed countries

  2. Developing countries

  3. Underdeveloped countries

  4. Arab countries


Correct Option: A

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.

  1. Statement I is true, Statement II is false

  2. Statement II is true, Statement I is false

  3. Both Statements are true, Statement II provides explanation to Statement I

  4. Both Statements are true, Statement II does not provide explanation to Statement I


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Statement is true and statement II is false.

Statement I: Shifting cultivation was widely prevalent in different parts of india in the 19th century.It was the traditional cultivation method of forest habitant.It affected the development of indian forestry in 19th century.It increased the pressure on exploitation of natural resources.Excessive shifting cultivation destroys the forest and leads to ecological degradation.
Statement II: More and more people took to shifting cultivation when forests laws were enacted is not true.After the implementation of forest laws people adopted the alternative methods of cultivation or profession.
So option A is correct.

The shifting cultivation in the north eastern region of India is called _____.

  1. Jhuming

  2. Bewar

  3. Taungya

  4. Ladang


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
The shifting cultivation in the north eastern region of India is called Jhuming.

So far as the cropping patterns in jhuming are concerned, the Jhumias adopt mixed cropping. The mixture of crops varies from tribe to tribe within a region. The shifting cultivators grow food grains, vegetables and also cash crops. In fact, the grower aims at growing in his jhum land everything that he needs for his family consumption. In other words, the choice of crop is consumption oriented.


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

  1. Lading - Southeast Asia

  2. Milpa - Australia

  3. Tavy - Africa

  4. Chena - Sri Lanka


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?

  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


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 _____.

  1. Maize

  2. Rice

  3. Wheat

  4. Cotton


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.

  1. Intensive subsistence farming

  2. Commercial

  3. Primitive subsistence farming

  4. Plantation


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 ___________.

  1. strip cropping

  2. row cropping

  3. line cropping

  4. sequence cropping


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'?

  1. Maize

  2. Wheat

  3. Gram

  4. Mustard


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 ________.

  1. Mixed cultivation

  2. Shifting cultivation

  3. Terrace farming

  4. Intensive farming


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?

  1. Rajasthan

  2. Gujarat

  3. West Bengal

  4. Punjab


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 __________.

  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


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 _________.

  1. Subsistence agriculture

  2. Commercial agriculture

  3. Pastoral farming

  4. Truck farming


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.

Subsistence farming is practised to meet the needs of _____ family.

  1. Contractor's

  2. Jagirdar's

  3. Owner's

  4. Farmers


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

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)?

  1. Maharashtra

  2. Kerala

  3. Nagaland

  4. Punjab


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Nagaland.
Jhum or jhoom cultivation is also called as shifting cultivation or cultivation or slash and burn cultivation.This type of cultivation is mainly practised in much of the world's Humid Low-Latitude, or climate regions, which have relatively high temperatures and abundant rainfall.Shifting cultivation is practiced by nearly 250 million people, especially in the tropical rain forests of South America, Central and West Africa, and Southeast Asia. In India, it is practised by the hill tribes of Northeastern hill region like in the states of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland,Tripura, Arunachal pradesh and Mizoram and also in the states of Sikkim, Bihar, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra. In Andhrapradesh it is practiced in the districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, Khammam , East and West Godavari districts and sparsely in Adilabad disrtict. In all these regions , jhum cultivations is known by vernacular names.

Consider the following statements and select the correct answer using the code given below:
1. 'Enrichment plantation' was introduced by the British in India.
2. 'Enrichment Plantation' makes biodiversity sustainable.

  1. Only 1 is correct

  2. Only 2 is correct

  3. Both 1 and 2 are correct

  4. Neither 1 nor 2 is correct


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
The British Government appointed German expert Dietrich Brand as the first Inspector General of Forest. He recommended the formation of rules and regulations of Forest Management and helped formulate the Indian forest Act, 1865. Scientific forestry was introduced when the forests were cleared for plantation.

Which one of the following is not a plantation crop in India?

  1. Coconut

  2. Cotton

  3. Tea

  4. Rubber


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

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?

  1. Assam

  2. Haryana

  3. Nagaland

  4. TamilNadu


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Haryana.

Rice and other crops are grown on the terraces. Hilly areas use this method of cultivation. The states that practice this type of cultivation are Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, TamilNadu, and north-east states.

Plantation is also a type of ________.

  1. Big farming

  2. Household farming

  3. Group farming

  4. Commercial farming

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Commercial farming.

Commercial farming is a type of farming in which crops are grown for commercial use only. It is a modernized method of farming that is undertaken on a large scale. In this type of farming the large land, labour and machines are used. Aquaponics farming is the best way of commercial farming because in this farming we can grow plants and fish in a single farming system. So it can decrease our production cost and increase our profit of farming.

Which one ofthe following describes a system of agriculture where a single crop is grown on a large area?

  1. Shifting Agriculture

  2. Plantation Agriculture

  3. Horticulture

  4. Intensive Agriculture

  5. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Plantation Agriculture.
Plantation agriculture has its roots in the past. In the early 18th and 19th centuries, a number of plantations were set up by westerners and western companies. They employed either local and foreign workers who were willing to work for a small wage. For example, the rubber plantations set up by the British in Malaya employed many workers from India. Today, most plantatons are owned by the local governments or big compnies.

PURPOSE
-Plantation agriculture is a form of commercial farming where crops are grown for sale. Some crops are sold as raw materials to manufactoring industries.

INPUTS:
-Land: Plantations are huge and can extend from a few hectares to a few thousand hectares. For example, in Malaysia, an oil palm plantation is usually at leasy 40 hectares in size.

-Capital: A large amount of capital is put into building roads, buying machinery and building factories to process the crops harvested from the plantations. 
Plantation owners also invest large amounts of their capital on fertilisers and pesticides. Fertilisers are applied to plantation crops as frequently as these crops use up nutrients from the land quickly. Since plantations usually grow one type of crop, pest attacks can cause total destruction of the plantations. Pesticides are therefore used in huge quantities to prevent crops from being entirely destryed by pests.

--Labour: Due to the large size of a plantation, a lot of labour is needed to tend to the crops and work in the nearby processing factories. For example in Malaysia;s large rubber plantations, many workers are hired to tap latex from rubber trees.

PRODUCE:
-the total output of a plantation is usually high. However, as a plantation covers a wide area of land, its output per unit are is usully low.

-Usually, only one type p crop is grown in a plantation. Common examples include rubber, coffee, tea, bananas, sugar cane, oil palm, cocoa and tobacco

The method of farming where cultivation of crops and rearing of animals occur in the same area of land is called?

  1. Plantation fanning

  2. Intensive subsistence farming

  3. Mixed farming

  4. Extensive commercial farming


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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. 

  1. Primitive subsistence

  2. Commercial

  3. Intensive subsistence

  4. All of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Commercial farming is an agricultural type that aims to maximize production through various means, such as the heavy use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

High yielding variety of seeds and use of chemical fertilisers are widely found in ________.

  1. Commercial farming

  2. Sedentary intensive farming

  3. Shifting cultivation

  4. Mixed farming


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

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.

  1. Muhammad Ghori

  2. Sultan Iltutmish 

  3. Sultan Qutub-ud-din Aibak

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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 _____________.

  1. Extensive cultivation

  2. Dry cultivation

  3. Jhum cultivation

  4. Fast cultivation


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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.

Tribal groups in the northeastern Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland and the Bangladeshi districts of Rangamati, Khagrachari, Bandarban and Sylhet refer to slash-and-burn agriculture as jhum or jhoom cultivation

In South-East Asia, shifting agriculture is known as ____.

  1. Chitemene

  2. Tavy

  3. Lading

  4. Milpa


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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?

  1. $Rs 75$

  2. $Rs 60$

  3. $Rs 50$

  4. $Rs 40$


Correct Option: B

Which of the following is not associated with Swidden agriculture?

  1. Karacha

  2. Jhum

  3. Bewar

  4. Panda


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

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?

  1. Rubber

  2. Sugarcane

  3. Tea

  4. Coffee


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

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 ________.

  1. Central Highland

  2. Kerala

  3. Himachal Pradesh

  4. Coastal Tamil Nadu


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Central Highland.
Jhum or jhoom cultivation is also called as shifting cultivation or cultivation or slash and burn cultivation.This type of cultivation is mainly practised in much of the world's Humid Low-Latitude, or climate regions, which have relatively high temperatures and abundant rainfall.Shifting cultivation is practiced by nearly 250 million people, especially in the tropical rain forests of South America, Central and West Africa, and Southeast Asia. In India, it is practised by the hill tribes of Northeastern hill region like in the states of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland,Tripura, Arunachal pradesh and Mizoram and also in the states of Sikkim, Bihar, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra. In Andhrapradesh it is practiced in the districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, Khammam , East and West Godavari districts and sparsely in Adilabad disrtict. In all these regions , jhum cultivations is known by vernacular names.

Rotation of crop means _______.

  1. Some crops are grown again and again

  2. Two or more crops are grown simultaneously to increase productivity

  3. Growing of different crops in succession to maintain soil fertility

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Crop Rotation
Between harvesting one crop and planting the next crop, the fields lie bare; there is a time period when the farmland does not have any crops. During this period, the farmer either grows grass or grows other crops to prevent soil from erosion. This helps the soil to regain the lost minerals.

Monoculture is a typical characteristic of ________.

  1. Shifting cultivation

  2. Commercial grain farming

  3. Subsistence farming

  4. Specialized horticulture


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Monoculture is a typical characteristics of Commercial grain farming.

Monoculture is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop, plant, or livestock species, variety, or breed in a field or farming system at a time focussing commercial gains.

Monoculture is widely used in both industrial farming and organic farming and has allowed increased efficiency in planting and harvest.

Polyculture, where more than one crop is grown in the same space at the same time, is the alternative to monoculture.

Groundnut, sunflower, gingelly, etc., are ________.

  1. Commercial crops

  2. Food crops

  3. Oil seeds

  4. Plantation crops


Correct Option: C

What is subsistence intensive farming?

  1. Farming for local/self consumption

  2. Farming for commercial purposes

  3. Farming for community

  4. Farming for charity


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

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 _______.

  1. Irrigation farming

  2. Subsistence farming

  3. Plantation farming

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Irrigation farming
Irrigation essentially means the watering of land to make it ready for agricultural purposes. An irrigation system is the supplying of water via artificial canals and channels to growing plants and crops in a field.

Sugarcane and paddy are water-intensive crops, and hence they need irrigation if adequate rainfall is not available.

The cultivation of crops on a small scale to meet the consumption needs of the family is called _________.

  1. Commercial farming

  2. Subsistence farming

  3. Irrigation farming

  4. Plantation farming


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Subsistence 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. The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to feed and clothe themselves during the year. Planting decisions are made principally with an eye toward what the family will need during the coming year, and secondarily toward market prices. Tony Waters[1] writes: "Subsistence peasants are people who grow what they eat, build their own houses, and live without regularly making purchases in the marketplace."

Which one of the following farming practices is banned at present?

  1. Intensive farming

  2. Shifting cultivation

  3. Mixed farming

  4. Subsistence farming


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

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 _______.

  1. Primitive farming

  2. Subsistence farming

  3. Commercial farming

  4. Primitive commercial farming


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Subsistence 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. The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to feed and clothe themselves during the year. Planting decisions are made principally with an eye toward what the family will need during the coming year, and secondarily toward market prices. Tony Waters  writes: "Subsistence peasants are people who grow what they eat, build their own houses, and live without regularly making purchases in the marketplace."

The farming in which crops are raised and rearing of livestock is carried out in the same field is __________.

  1. Primitive farming

  2. Commercial farming

  3. Mixed farming

  4. Plantation farming


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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.

  1. 45

  2. 55

  3. 40

  4. 23


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Madhya Pradesh is India's largest pulse producing state, which accounts for 23% of total pulse production in the country. Madhya Pradesh is followed by Uttar Pradesh (18%), Maharashtra (14%), Rajasthan (11%) and Andhra Pradesh (9%).

______% of the total cultivable land in India is irrigated.

  1. 55

  2. 60

  3. 35

  4. 75


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
35%
The total arable land in India is 160 million hectares (395 million acres). According to the World Bank, only about 35% of total agricultural land in India was reliably irrigated in 2010.

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 _______.

  1. Shifting Cultivation

  2. Plantation farming

  3. Hybrid farming

  4. Crop rotation


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

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 ________.

  1. Ponama

  2. Podu

  3. Kumari

  4. Jhuming


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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 ________.

  1. Shifting agriculture

  2. Wet -farming

  3. Dry farming

  4. Biological farming


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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 ____________.

  1. dry and wet farming

  2. subsistence farming

  3. shifting agriculture

  4. intensive farming


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

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?

  1. Mixed agriculture

  2. Plantation agriculture

  3. Shifting Agriculture

  4. Subsistence agriculture


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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?

  1. Shifting farming

  2. Plantation farming

  3. Dry and wet farming

  4. Intensive subsistence agriculture


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Farmers in India are mostly engaged in Intensive subsistence agriculture.
The term, ‘intensive subsistence agriculture’ is used to describe a type of agriculture characterised by high output per unit of land and relatively low output per worker. Although the nature of this agriculture has changed and in many areas now it is no more subsistence.

But despite changes, the term ‘intensive subsistence’ is still used today to describe those agricultural systems which are clearly more sophisticated than the primitive agriculture. Sometimes it is also known as ‘monsoon type of agriculture’.

Organic farming is a system which avoids or largely excludes the use of __________.

  1. Synthetic fertilizers

  2. Pesticides

  3. Hormones

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

Which of the following agricultural products, farmers can not export directly?

  1. Food grains

  2. Vegetables

  3. Flowers

  4. Fruits


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Food grains.

For exporting any commodity out of India, you need to go through many procedures that an ordinary farmer cannot handle by himself or herself.

First, being scattered individuals, farmers in general cannot produce a product at a scale needed for export, and cannot cope up with the elaborate and complex export procedures.

Second, most Indian farmers are smallholders with an average farm size of 1–2 hectares per family. In such cases, they have to produce crops every season to meet their own needs and to sell the small surplus in local markets immediately after harvest. They don’t have large surpluses needed for export.

Third, most foods are perishable in the short (vegetables, fruits) or medium term (grains) and as such they have to be sold to consumers before they rot. There are not adequate storage (cold storage) and refrigerated transport facilities to handle perishable goods in long transit.

Fourth, farmers are not organized into effective producer groups with a professional guidance and required infrastructure for export of commodities they produce. Only well-organized producer groups can bulk the products, process them well, add value wherever possible, organize all the permits and papers needed for export, and manage the prices for their raw and or processed products.

Which of the following is the aim of organic farming?

  1. To produce crop with high nutritional value

  2. To maintain and improve long term fertility and sustainability of farmland

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

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?

  1. intensive farming

  2. extensive farming

  3. commercial cultivation

  4. plantation agriculture


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Extensive Farming

Extensive farming= large area For farming but less people to do work. Surplus production because of less population. Extensive farming done with machinery.

Intensive farming= less area for agriculture with no of people engages more. Less production. Intensive farming done with mannualy.

India farming is Intensive farming because 54.4% of indian population work in agriculture farming.

Which of the following is a new bio-fertilizers?

  1. Green Blue Algae

  2. Nitrates

  3. Compost

  4. Farmyard manure


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Blue Green Algae
Rhizobium, Azotobacter, Azospirillum and blue green algae(BGA) have been traditionally used as Biofertilizers. Rhizobiuminoculant is used for leguminous crops such as pulses. Azotobacter can be used with crops like wheat, maize, mustard, cotton, potato and other vegetable crops.

The largest area under plantation in India is in _______.

  1. Kerala

  2. Karnataka

  3. Tamil Nadu

  4. Assam


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

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?

  1. Coconut

  2. Potato

  3. Oil Palm

  4. Cashew

  5. Rubber


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Potato.

Plantation crops are known as cash crops. These crops are mostly grown at tropical and subtropical areas. These crops are grown for sale but not for local consumption. such crops include rubber, coffee, tea, various oil seeds, sugar cane,etc.

About area is rain fed in India.

  1. One third

  2. One half

  3. Sixty per cent

  4. Three fourth


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In India, about 60% of total net sown area comes under rainfed lands.

To produce best results from HYV seeds we need _______.

  1. Manure fertilizer

  2. Cow dung

  3. Good sunlight

  4. Plenty of water


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

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?

  1. Milpa

  2. Chitemene

  3. Chena

  4. Podu


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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?

  1. Conflict between large and small farmers

  2. Conflict between industrial workers and farm workers

  3. Conflict between owners and tenant farmers

  4. Conflict between employers and employees on agricultural farms


Correct Option: B

The Green Revolution is a term used for ____________________.

  1. Increasing the area under forests

  2. Growing more trees

  3. Use of new technology for expansion in area under crops and increase of production and productivity in agriculture

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

The _____ revolution helped farmers to produce higher level of foodgrains and non-foodgrains on the same plot of land.

  1. Blue

  2. White

  3. Green

  4. Red


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

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.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

True.

The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) founded by Mahendra Lal Sircar in Calcutta in 1876 was the first large-scale indigenous enterprise in colonial India for the propagation of modern science. The efforts towards the formation of the IACS were marked by a range of ideas and positions which reflected mainstream elite Indian attitudes to western science as also the many paradoxes that the colonial situation imposed on the whole enterprise. The first exposures of the Indian elite to western education had evoked an admiration for modern science, its values, and its “infinite” possibilities. But the admiration so generated could not run on a momentum of its own because of the limitations of the colonial education system itself. The appreciation of modern science also brought about a soul-searching as to why a civilization with a hoary tradition of science had stagnated. This, in turn, led to vigorous socio-cultural self-criticism aimed at ending what was perceived to be long slumber and degeneration. Science itself was seen as a force for such liberation and the alien colonial government as its chief facilitator. The latter was not too eager to promote science at large. Hence the need for an indigenous initiative. However, the plain existential realities of colonialism dictated that little could be achieved without the support of the government. With all its paradoxes and ironies, the IACS project was yet a grand endeavour, forming a lasting part of the Indian scientific landscape. In fact, given its peculiar circumstances, it would have been very unreal without its paradoxes.

HYV seeds stand for __________.

  1. Heavy yielding variety seeds

  2. High yielding variety seeds

  3. Half yielding variety seeds

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

HYV stands for High yield variety ..seeds.

It is a kind of seeds which helps a lot in agriculture. Firstly , it used in Punjab , haryana and western U.P during green revolution .But In that time, they overuse the chemical fertilisers like HYV seeds etc.Due to impletation of HYV seeds there were faced a lot problem...It is used for surplus production in Haryana and Punjab.

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