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

Answer: (a)

Answer: (b)

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

Operation Flood in India, a project of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) was the world’s biggest dairy development programme which made India, a milk-deficient nation, the largest milk producer in the world, surpassing the USA in 1998, with about 17 per cent of global output in 2010–11, which is 30 years doubled the milk available per person, and which made dairy farming India’s largest self-sustainable rural employment generator.

The Anand pattern experiment at Amul, a single, cooperative dairy, was the engine behind the success of the programme.

Answer: (b)

The Green Revolution was a technology package comprising material components of improved high yielding varieties of two staple cereals (rice and wheat).

Answer: (d)

India has the world’s largest cropped and irrigated area.The cropping pattern of foodgrains in India is dominated by cereal crop.The average size of an Indian farm holding is below 2 hectares which constitute almost 80% of all Indian farmers.