indian agriculture & animal husbandry section 6 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

In Chhattisgarh State, the maximum area under horticulture Sector was of vegetable,

Answer: (d)

Chief Producer and States;

• Tea — Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu
• Jute — West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Orissa
• Rubber — Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka
• Tobacco — Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu

Answer: (c)

Castor plants are not used for rearing of silkworms. Castor oil has many uses in medicine and other applications.

Answer: (d)

Mixed farming is the combining of two independent agricultural enterprises on the same farm. A typical case of mixed farming is the combination of crop enterprise with dairy farming or in more general terms, crop cultivation with livestock farming. Mixed farming may be treated as a special case of diversified farming.

Answer: (b)

Even though the cultivation of Tobacco is spread all over the country, commercial cultivation of Tobacco is concentrated in States like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. India's Tobacco Board is headquartered in Guntur in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Answer: (b)

The novel technological development of the Green Revolution was the production of novel wheat cultivars. Agronomists bred cultivars of maize, wheat, and rice that are generally referred to as HYVs or "high yielding varieties". In the Indian context, wheat benefitted the most in such states as Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

There are also claims that the Green Revolution has decreased food security for a large number of people. One claim involves the shift of subsistence-oriented cropland to cropland oriented towards the production of grain for export or animal feed.

For example, the Green Revolution replaced much of the land used for pulses that fed Indian peasants for wheat, which did not make up a large portion of the peasant diet.