indian agriculture & animal husbandry section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Slash-and-burn is an agricultural technique that involves cutting and burning forests or woodlands to create fields. It is subsistence agriculture that typically uses little technology or other tools.

It is typically part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding. In slash-and-burn agriculture, the forest will typically be cut months before a dry season.

The "slash" is permitted to dry and then burned in the following dry season. The resulting ash fertilizes the soil, and the burned field is then planted at the beginning of the next rainy season with crops such as upland rice, maize, cassava, or another staple crop.

Most of this work is typically done by hand, using machetes, axes, hoes, and other such basic tools.

Answer: (d)

The major rabi crop in Indian is wheat, followed by barley, mustard, sesame and peas. Peas are harvested early, as they are ready early : India markets are flooded with green peas from January to March, peaking in February.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (c)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (c)

The total area under irrigated rice is about 22.00 million hectares, which accounts for about 49.5 per cent of the total area under rice crop in the country.

Rice is grown under irrigated conditions in the states of

1. Punjab,
2. Haryana,
3. Uttar Pradesh,
4. Jammu & Kashmir,
5. Andhra Pradesh,
6. Tamil Nadu,
7. Sikkim,
8. Karnataka,
9. Himachal Pradesh and
10. Gujarat.

In these states, rice is grown under irrigated conditions more than 50-90%.