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

Answer: (b)

Bigha is the traditional unit of land measurement in UP.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (d)

Plucking and pruning are the methods employed in tea. Pruning is a vital operation for tea management to limit the top growth and to stimulate the growth of the bush.

Pruning is a process to the tea bush at a certain height to control the vertical growth and allow it to expand horizontally for comfortable plucking with renewed and vigorous branching pattern.

Some objectives of pruning are:

1. to check the reproductive growth and provide a stimulus for vegetative growth especially for the production of young shoot that constitutes the crop;
2. to remove the dead wear and unproductive wood;
3. to renew the actively growing branches which can support the sufficient volume of maintenance foliage on it;
4. to maintain the height and dead frame for economic plucking;
5. to increase the growth hormone for vegetative growth;
6. to derive store energy for the production of the growing shoot, and
7. to reduce the incidence of pest and diseases which help to rejuvenate the bushes for maximum cross production.

Answer: (c)

India is the largest produces and consumer of tea in the world and accounts for 28 percent of world production and 15 percent of the world trade.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

The Blue Revolution envisages the transformation of the fisheries sector with increased investment, better training and development of infrastructure on the lines of the white revolution which transformed India’s dairy sector.