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Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Farm bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Farmers, fishermen and miners work outdoors. What are workers in primary activities nicknamed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is the oldest economic activity known to humans?Read the answer and worked solution →Gatherers sell tree bark that yields which medicine?Read the answer and worked solution →Chewing gum base, chicle, comes from the milky juice of which tree?Read the answer and worked solution →Herders who move with livestock in search of pasture and water practise:Read the answer and worked solution →Which animals do nomads rear in the mountains of Tibet and the Andes?Read the answer and worked solution →Gujjars and Bakarwals move to mountain pastures in summer and back to the plains in winter. This is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Fenced ranches where one animal type is bred scientifically are typical of which countries?Read the answer and worked solution →Tribal farmers burn forest, farm the patch for a few years and move on. What is this called?Read the answer and worked solution →After how many years does a shifting cultivator's patch lose fertility and get abandoned?Read the answer and worked solution →Shifting cultivation is called Jhum in northeast India. What is it called in Indonesia and Malaysia?Read the answer and worked solution →Wet paddy farming on tiny family plots in monsoon Asia gives high yield per hectare but what?Read the answer and worked solution →Large estates, single crop, cheap labour and big capital describe which farming type?Read the answer and worked solution →The British set up rubber plantations in which colony?Read the answer and worked solution →Large coffee plantations in Brazil are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Wheat farms on the Prairies, Pampas and Steppes are examples of which farming?Read the answer and worked solution →Which farming gives equal weight to crops and livestock, with fodder crops and rotation?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is described as the most advanced and efficient type of rearing milch animals?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is the largest region of commercial dairy farming in the world?Read the answer and worked solution →Grape cultivation, a speciality of the Mediterranean, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which country is famous for growing tulips flown to cities across Europe?Read the answer and worked solution →Farms growing only vegetables at a distance a truck can cover overnight practise:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the plantation cropsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the shifting namesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the farm typesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the herdersRead the answer and worked solution →Subsistence or commercialRead the answer and worked solution →Animals by regionRead the answer and worked solution →

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Questions
  1. Answer
    75
    Question
    Rainfall limit for dryland farming in cm
  2. Answer
    54
    Question
    Cereal share of cropped area in per cent, whole number
  3. Answer
    15
    Question
    Fertiliser use growth since the mid-1960s, in times
  4. Answer
    1988
    Question
    Year agro-climatic planning began
  5. Answer
    1840
    Question
    Decade tea planting began in Assam, e.g. 1830s means 1830
  6. Answer
    4000
    Question
    Wheat yield in Punjab in kg per hectare, above this number
Instructions
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_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 5, Land Resources and Agriculture._

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Farm bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Local name for rainfed farming.
    Item
    Barani
  2. Clue
    Short summer season after rabi.
    Item
    Zaid
  3. Clue
    Long staple American cotton.
    Item
    Narma
  4. Clue
    Red gram or pigeon pea.
    Item
    Tur
  5. Clue
    Land where crops are sown and harvested.
    Item
    Net sown
  6. Clue
    Seeds from Mexico and the Philippines.
    Item
    HYV
  7. Clue
    Intensive district programme of the late 1950s.
    Item
    IADP
  8. Clue
    Scheme promoting organic farming.
    Item
    PKVY
  9. Clue
    Superior coffee India mostly grows.
    Item
    Arabica
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 5, Land Resources and Agriculture._

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Farmers, fishermen and miners work outdoors. What are workers in primary activities nicknamed?

  1. Red-collar workers
  2. White-collar workers
  3. Blue-collar workers
  4. Pink-collar workers
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Correct answer: A. Red-collar workers

1. Primary activities use the earth's resources directly. 2. Their workers are called red-collar. 3. The name comes from outdoor work. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 5, Primary Activities._

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