Q: Neha uses only organic manure and pesticides in her farm. Which farming is she following ?
a) Commercial farming
b) Organic farming
c) Mixed farming
Q: Which of these is NOT a tertiary activity ?
a) banking
b) transport
c) bread baking
Q: _____ of India’s population is still dependent on agriculture.
a) two-third
b) one-third
c) half
Q: Which of these operations are involved in farming ?
a) weeding, sowing, harvesting
b) ploughing, sowing, selling
c) irrigation, selling, harvesting
Q: Major plantations are found in the _____ regions of the world.
a) tropical
b) temperate
c) polar
Q: _____ is the major food crop of the world.
a) wheat
b) maize
c) rice
Q: This food crop requires moderate temperature, rainfall and lots of sunshine. It needs well-drained fertile soil. Which food crop is it ?
a) rice
b) millets
c) maize
Q: Cotton requires _____ frost-free days.
a) 210
b) 110
c) 200
Q: _____ is the leading producer of coffee.
a) columbia
b) brazil
c) India
Q: Developing countries with large populations usually practise _____ agriculture.
a) commercial
b) intensive
c) mixed
Q: Which of these are the characteristics of a farm situated in developed countries ?
i. Testing soil samples time to time
ii. Use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides
iii. use of automated grain storage facilities
a) only i and ii
b) only ii and iii
c) i,ii and iii
Q: Nomadic herding is practiced in which state of India ?
a) Maharashtra
b) Kerala
c) Rajasthan
Q: The other name of shifting cultivation is _____.
a) commercial agriculture
b) nomadic herding
c) slash and burn agriculture
Q: Read the following features and identify the type of agriculture ?
Use of small plot
Use of simple agricultural tools
Use of more labour
a) Intensive subsistence farming
b) shifting cultivation
c) plantation
Q: Growing vegetables, fruits and flowers for commercial use is known as _____.
a) pisciculture
b) horticulture
c) sericulture
