indian agriculture & animal husbandry section 9 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (a)

Alphonso is a mango cultivar that is considered one of the best in terms of sweetness, richness and flavour It has a considerable shelf life of a week after it is ripe making it exportable. It is also one of the most expensive kinds of mango and is grown mainly in the largest region of western India.

The southern district of Ratnagiri and south northern parts of Sindhudurg in Maharashtra state, including regions around the Dapoli and Devgad Talukas, the southern districts of Valsad and Navsari in Gujarat state and particularly Alphonso mangoes from the Amalsad region (including villages such as Dhamadachha, Kacholi, and all villages of Gandevi) produce the finest quality of Alphonso mangoes in India.

The southern states in India are also major mango producing areas. From north to south, climatic changes occur which result in differences in the quality of the produce. In Gujarat and Maharashtra, the finest fruit comes from a patch of 20 km from the seashore.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Kharif crops refer to the planting, cultivation and harvesting of any domesticated plant sown in the rainy (monsoon) season on the Asian subcontinent. Such crops are planted for autumn harvest and may also be called the summer or monsoon crop in India and Pakistan.

Kharif crops are usually sown with the beginning of the first rains in July, during the southwest monsoon season.

• Common Kharif crops are: millet; jowar; maize, green gram, sugarcane, pigeon pea, black gram, groundnut, sunflower, soyabean, rice, etc.