Q 1 – Which type of farming is known as Slash and Burn to farm?
(A) Primitive subsistence
(B) Intensive subsistence
(C) Plantation
(D) Commerical
Ans. (A) Primitive subsistence
Q 2 – India is the second-largest producer of which crop in the world?
(A) Tea
(B) Coffee
(C) Rice
(D) Cotton
Ans. (C) Rice
Q 3 – Which state is the largest producer of Jowar in India?
(A) Punjab
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Karnataka
(D) Rajasthan
Ans. (B) Maharashtra
Q 4 – India is the leading producer of which crop in the world?
(A) Jute
(B) Rice
(C) Tea
(D) Coffee
Ans. (C) Tea
Q 5 – Which crop was introduced in Baba Budan Hills?
(A) Tea
(B) Coffee
(C) Rice
(D) Cotton
Ans. (B) Coffee
Q 6 – Which is known as golden fiber?
(A) Cotton
(B) Silk
(C) Jute
(D) Wool
Ans. (C) Jute
Q 7 – Which one of the following is a rabi crop?
(A) Rice
(B) Millets
(C) Gram
(D) Cotton
Ans. (C) Gram
Q 8 – Which one of the following is a leguminous crop?
(A) Pulses
(B) Millets
(C) Jowar
(D) Sesamum
Ans. (A) Pulses
Q 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
Ans. (B) Minimum support price
Q 10 – Cotton needs a frost-free period of
(A) 100 days
(B) 150 days
(C) 210 days
(D) 250 days
Ans. (C) 210 days
Q 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 tones
Ans. (D) 250 million tones
Q 12 – Which state is the largest wheat producing state?
(A) Punjab
(B) Haryana
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Rajasthan
Ans. (C) Uttar Pradesh
Q 13 – In which season Kharif crops are grown?
(A) Winter
(B) Summer
(C) Spring
(D) Autumn
Ans. (B) Summer
Q 14 – The net area sown in India is
(A) 77%
(B) 67%
(C) 45%
(D) 43%
Ans. 43%
Q 15 – In India, cereals occupy how much-cropped area?
(A) 34%
(B) 44%
(C) 54%
(D) 64%
Ans. (C) 54%
Q 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
Ans. (B) Marginal land
Q 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
Ans. (C) Increase in the notified area allocated for forest growth
Q 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
Ans. (C) Salinisation of soils
Q 19 – Which one of the following crops is not cultivated under dryland farming?
(A) Ragi
(B) Jowar
(C) Groundnut
(D) Sugarcane
Ans. (D) Sugarcane
Q 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
Ans. (C) Mexico and the Philippines