Question 1.
Which type of farming is known as Slash and Burn to farm?
(A) Primitive subsistence
(B) Intensive subsistence
(C) Plantation
(D) Commerical

Answer

Answer: (A) Primitive subsistence

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Question 2.
India is the second-largest producer of which crop in the world?
(A) Tea
(B) Coffee
(C) Rice
(D) Cotton

Answer

Answer: (C) Rice

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Question 3.
Which state is the largest producer of Jowar in India?
(A) Punjab
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Karnataka
(D) Rajasthan

Answer

Answer: (B) Maharashtra

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Question 4.
India is the leading producer of which crop in the world?
(A) Jute
(B) Rice
(C) Tea
(D) Coffee

Answer

Answer: (C) Tea

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Question 5.
Which crop was introduced in Baba Budan Hills?
(A) Tea
(B) Coffee
(C) Rice
(D) Cotton

Answer

Answer: (B) Coffee

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Question 6.
Which is known as golden fiber?
(A) Cotton
(B) Silk
(C) Jute
(D) Wool

Answer

Answer: (C) Jute

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Question 7.
Which one of the following is a rabi crop?
(A) Rice
(B) Millets
(C) Gram
(D) Cotton

Answer

Answer: (C) Gram

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Question 8.
Which one of the following is a leguminous crop?
(A) Pulses
(B) Millets
(C) Jowar
(D) Sesamum

Answer

Answer: (A) Pulses

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Question 9.
Which one of the following price is announced by the government in support of a crop?
(A) Maximum support price
(B) Minimum support price
(C) Moderate support price
(D) Influential support price

Answer

Answer: (B) Minimum support price

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Question 10.
Cotton needs a frost-free period of
(A) 100 days
(B) 150 days
(C) 210 days
(D) 250 days

Answer

Answer: (C) 210 days

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Question 11.
What is the total production of food grains in India?
(A) 70 million tonnes
(B) 100 million tonnes
(C) 150 million tonnes
(D) 250 million tonnes

Answer

Answer: (D) 250 million tonnes

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Question 12.
Which state is the largest wheat producing state?
(A) Punjab
(B) Haryana
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Rajasthan

Answer

Answer: (C) Uttar Pradesh

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Question 13.
In which season Kharif crops are grown?
(A) Winter
(B) Summer
(C) Spring
(D) Autumn

Answer

Answer: (B) Summer

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Question 14.
The net area sown in India is
(A) 77%
(B) 67%
(C) 45%
(D) 43%

Answer

Answer: (D) 43%

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Question 15.
In India, cereals occupy how much-cropped area?
(A) 34%
(B) 44%
(C) 54%
(D) 64%

Answer

Answer: (C) 54%

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Question 16.
Which one of the following is NOT a land-use category?
(A) Fallow land
(B) Marginal land
(C) Net Area Sown
(D) Culturable Wasteland

Answer

Answer: (B) Marginal land

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Question 17.
Which one of the following is the main reason due to which share of the forest has shown an increase in the last forty years?
(A) Extensive and efficient efforts of afforestation
(B) Increase in community forest land
(C) Increase in the notified area allocated for forest growth
(D) Better peoples participation in managing forest area

Answer

Answer: (C) Increase in the notified area allocated for forest growth

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Question 18.
Which one of the following is the main form of degradation in irrigated areas?
(A) Gully erosion
(B) Wind erosion
(C) Salinisation of soils
(D) Siltation of land

Answer

Answer: (C) Salinisation of soils

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Question 19.
Which one of the following crops is not cultivated under dryland farming?
(A) Ragi
(B) Jowar
(C) Groundnut
(D) Sugarcane

Answer

Answer: (D) Sugarcane

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Question 20.
In which of the following group of countries of the world, HYVs of wheat and rice were developed?
(A) Japan and Australia
(B) The U.S.A. and Japan
(C) Mexico and the Philippines
(D) Mexico and Singapore

Answer

Answer: (C) Mexico and the Philippines

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