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Question : 36 [SSC LDEO 2011]

Social forestry is

a) growing different types of plants together on private land

b) growing one type of plant in government owned land

c) management of forest by cooperative societies

d) growing and management of useful plants on government owned land

Answer: (d)

Social forestry means the management and protection of forests and afforestation on barren lands with the purpose of helping in the environmental, social and rural development. Under social forestry, trees are planted in village common land, Government wasteland and Panchayat land.

Through the social forestry scheme, the government has involved community participation, as part of a drive towards afforestation, and rehabilitating the degraded forest and common lands.

Question : 37 [PSC (Pre) 2018]

The reasons for low productivity in Indian agriculture is

a) Overcrowding in Agriculture

b) Traditional agricultural practices

c) Small Land Holding

d) All of the above

Answer: (d)

Question : 38 [UPPCS (Spl)(Mains) 2004]

In Southern India, the area of high agricultural productivity is found in

a) Kerala coast

b) Telangana

c) Tamil Nadu coast

d) Vidarbha

Answer: (c)

Question : 39

Consider the following statements and choose the correct codes given below:

  1. Jhum cultivation is adopted in North-Eastern State of India.
  2. Jhum cultivation is a process of afforestation.

a) 1 only

b) Both 1 and 2

c) 2 only

d) Neither 1 nor 2

Answer: (a)

Jhum (Shifting) cultivation is a primitive practice of cultivation in States North Eastern Hill Region of India and people involved in such cultivation is called Jhumia. The practise involves clearing vegetative/forest cover on land/slopes of hills, drying and burning it before the onset of monsoon and cropping on it thereafter.

After harvest, this land is left fallow and vegetative regeneration is allowed on it till the plot becomes reusable for the same purpose in a cycle. Meanwhile, the process is repeated in a new plot designated for Jhum cultivation during the next year.

Question : 40 [PSC (Pre) 2017]

‘Kaushal’ is an improved variety of

a) Chickpea

b) Groundnut

c) Cotton

d) Wheat

Answer: (b)

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