Q: Which one of the following is a rabi crop?

Gram is a rabi crop and is most important of all the pulses and accounting for 37 per cent of the total production and 28.28 per cent of the total area of pulses in India.

Question 1

What is plantation agriculture?

Accepted Answer

Plantations are a type of commercial farming where a single crop of tea, coffee, sugarcane, cashew, rubber, banana or cotton is grown. A large amount of labor and capital are required. The produce may be processed on the farm itself or in nearby factories. The development of a transport network is thus essential for such farming. Rubber in Malaysia, coffee in Brazil, tea in India and Sri Lanka are some examples.

Question 2

Which of the following is not a Kharif crop?

Accepted Answer

WheatThe agricultural crop year in India is from July to June. The Indian cropping season is classified into two main seasons-(i) Kharif and (ii) Rabi based on the monsoon. The Kharif cropping season is from July &#8211;October during the south-west monsoon and the Rabi cropping season is from October-March (winter).The Kharif crops include rice, maize, sorghum, pearl millet/bajra, finger millet/ragi (cereals), arhar (pulses), soybean, groundnut (oilseeds), cotton etc.The rabi crops include wheat, barley, oats (cereals), chickpea/gram (pulses), linseed, mustard (oilseeds) etc.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 4

The Agriculture that is practiced on small patches of land with the help of primitive tools like hoe, dao and digging sticks is _______.

Accepted Answer

Primitive subsistence agriculture is practised on small patches of land with the help of primitive tools like hoe, dao and digging sticks, and family/ community labour. This type of farming depends upon monsoon, natural fertility of the soil and suitability of other environmental conditions to the crops grown.

Question 5

Which one of the following is a rabi crop?

Accepted Answer

Gram is a rabi crop and is most important of all the&#10;pulses and accounting for 37 per cent of the total production and 28.28 per cent of&#10;the total area of pulses in India.

Question 6

It's a type of agriculture where farmers clear a patch of land and produce food crops to sustain their family

Accepted Answer

Slash and Burn farming is a type of agriculture where the forest trees are cut and burned by farmers to create favorable soil and conditions for crop cultivation.After 2 to 3 years, the land is left fallow due to its reduced fertility and farmers move to new regions and continue slash and burn farming.It is also known as Shifting cultivation.

Question 7

Name the crops which are grown on large plantations in India.

Accepted Answer

Plantation is a type of commercial farming. In this type of farming, a single crop is grown on a large area. In India, tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, banana, etc. are important plantation crops.

Question 8

Which one of the following is not a cropping season?

Accepted Answer

Among the following winter is not a cropping season. India has three cropping seasons &#8212; rabi, kharif and zaid. Rabi crops are sown in winter from October to December and harvested in summer from April to June. Kharif crops are grown with the onset of monsoon in different parts of the country and these are harvested in September-October. In between the rabi and the kharif seasons, there is a short season during summer months known as Zaid season.

Question 9

Which one of the following crop is grown in Zaid season?

Accepted Answer

Cucumber is one of the important Zaid crops that is grown in the months between March and June. It is a summer crop and requires dry weather. It is very sensitive to frost conditions and yield is very high in moderate warm temperatures.Sandy loamy soils and clay soils with high organic matter is proved good for the cultivation.

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

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.

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