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Class-IX
1.‘Bigha’ and ‘Guintha’ are
(a) the type of village house (b) the type of hybrid seeds
(c) the measuring units of grain (d) the measuring units of land area in
village
14. High yielding variety seeds (HYV) were introduced to Indian farmers as a
result of
(a) White Revolution (b) Green Revolution (c) IT Revolution (d) None of
the above
15. Why do the farmers of Palampur follow multiple cropping? Choose the
correct answer.
(a) Because the water consumption is less in this method
(b) Because this method consumes less chemical fertilisers
(c) Because this method doesn’t require fertile soils
(d) Because this method is the most common way of increasing production
16. Which one of the following is not an effect of the modern farming?
(a) Soil degradation (b) Deforestation (c) Decrease in groundwater (d)
Water pollution
17. In the given questions, there are two statements marked as Assertion and Reason (R). Read
the statements and choose the correct code.
Assertion (A) A farm labourer does not get the wages set by the government.
Reason (R) A farm labourer is ready to work on low wages by seeing heavy competition
for work among the farm labourers.
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Assertion (A) Farmers of Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh were the first to
try out the modern farming methods in India.
Reason (R) The awareness about the modern farming methods was created in these
regions.
19.
Assertion (A) The small farmers, who constitute about 80 per cent of total farmers in
India, find it difficult to obtain capital.
Reason (R) The small sizes of their plots are not able to produce enough.
A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
B) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
C) A is true, but R is false
D) A is false, but R is true.