Agriculture (c) Cotton and Jute(d) Tea and Coffee

1. Which of the following is the principal crop grown in areas ► (d) Tea and Coffee
of Intensive Subsistence Farming? 14. Of which one of the following beverage crops, India is the
(a) Yams and Sweet Potato(b) Wheat leading producer as well as exporter in the world?
(c) Rice(d) Cotton (a) Coffee(b) Pulses(c) Tea(d) Curd
► (a) Yams and Sweet Potato ► (c) Tea
2. Which of the following types of economic activity is 15. Which of the following crops is not a millet?
agriculture? (a) Jowar(b) Maize(c) Ragi(d) Bajra
(a) Primary activity(b) Secondary activity ► (b) Maize
(c) Tertiary activity(d) All the above 16. In which of the following states of India rice is considered a
► (a) Primary activity commercial crop?
3. Rice is a subsistence crop in Orissa. In which of the following (a) West Bengal(b) Orissa(c) Bihar(d) Punjab
states, is rice a commercial crop? ► (d) Punjab
(a) West Bengal and Bihar(b) Jammu and Kashmir 17. Which of the following crops grows well in the Black soil ?
(c) Punjab and Haryana(d) Tamil Nadu and Kerala (a) Jute
► (c) Punjab and Haryana (b) Rice
4. What is Primitive Subsistence Farming known as in north- (c) Cotton
eastern states like Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland? (d) Wheat
(a) Horticulture(b) Penda(c) Jhumming(d) Milpa ► (c) Cotton
► (c) Jhumming 18. Arabica variety of coffee was initially brought to India
5. Which of the following crops is produced during zaid from which of the following countries?
cropping season? (a) Yemen
(a) Sugarcane(b) Muskmelon(c) Groundnut(d) Moong (b) Vietnam
► (b) Muskmelon (c) Japan
6. Which of the following crops is used both as a food and as a (d) Korea
fodder? ► (a) Yemen
(a) Jowar(b) Wheat(c) Maize(d) Tea 19. What is the rearing of silkworms for the production of silk
► (c) Maize called?
7. How many crops of paddy are grown in a year in the states (a) Horticulture
like Assam, West Bengal and Orissa and they are termed as (b) Pisciculture
which of the following? (c) Sericulture
(a) Once-Arabica (d) Agriculture
(b) Two-Rabi and Zaid ► (c) Sericulture
(c) Three-Aus, Aman, Boro 20. Which one of the following is the example of plantation
(d) Three-Kumar, Valre, Waltre agriculture?
► (c) Three-Aus, Aman, Boro (a) Jute
8. Which of the following crops is used both as a food and as a (b) Wheat
fodder? (c) Tea
(a) Jowar (d) Oilseeds
(b) Wheat ► (c) Tea
(c) Maize 21. Which of the following is the example of kharif crops?
(d) Tea (a) Rice
► (c) Maize (b) Wheat
9. Which of the following is a kharif crop and accounts for (c) Gram
about half of the major oilseeds (d) Peas
produced in the country? ► (a) Rice
(a) Mustard 22. ‘Slash and burn agriculture’ is a
(b) Coconut (a) shifting agriculture
(c) Groundnut (b) intensive agriculture
(d) Soyabean (c) commercial agriculture
► (c) Groundnut (d) none of these
10. Which of the following crops is the main source of jaggary, ► (a) shifting agriculture
khandsari and molasses? 23. Cultivation of fruits and vegetables is called:
(a) Arhar (a) Floriculture
(b) Coconut (b) Sericulture
(c) Linseed (c) Horticulture
(d) Sugarcane (d) Agriculture
► (d) Sugarcane ► (c) Horticulture
11. White Revolution involves improvement in the production 24. Which one of the following crops is known as ‘Golden
of which of the following products? Fibre?
(a) Cotton(b) Wheat (a) Wheat
(c) Maize or corn(d) Milk (b) Rice
► (d) Milk (c) Groundnut
12. Tea cultivation is an example of which of the following (d) Jute
types of agriculture? ► (d) Jute
(a) Horticulture(b) Plantation
(c) Beverage cultivation(d) Intensive agriculture
► (b) Plantation
13. Which of the following group of crops are known as
beverage crops?
(a) Castor seed and Sunflower(b) Peas and Gram