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Cotton needs how many frost-free days?Read the answer and worked solution →Land reform was the main focus of which Five Year Plan?Read the answer and worked solution →Operation Flood is another name for the:Read the answer and worked solution →The government announces minimum support prices to protect farmers from:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the kharif cropsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the plantation cropsRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real cropRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the farming wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Rabi or kharifRead the answer and worked solution →Cereal, fibre or oilseedRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Agriculture bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A boatman on the northern plains sees rivers branching like a tree. This drainage pattern is:Read the answer and worked solution →Rivers spread out in all directions from the Amarkantak range. The pattern is:Read the answer and worked solution →A line separating one drainage basin from the next is the:Read the answer and worked solution →What share of India's drainage area drains into the Bay of Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →Himalayan rivers flow all year because they are fed by rain and:Read the answer and worked solution →A Bihar farmer dreads the river that keeps shifting its course, the sorrow of Bihar. It is the:Read the answer and worked solution →In Tibet the Indus is called Singi Khamban, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →The Panjnad joining the Indus is made of the Satluj, Beas, Ravi, Chenab and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Jhelum rises from a spring at Verinag and flows through Srinagar and which lake?Read the answer and worked solution →Chandra and Bhaga join at Tandi to form which largest tributary of the Indus?Read the answer and worked solution →The Satluj feeds the canal system of which project?Read the answer and worked solution →At Devprayag the Bhagirathi meets the Alaknanda and the river is then called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The Ganga enters the plains at:Read the answer and worked solution →Which state has the longest stretch of the Ganga, 1,450 km?Read the answer and worked solution →Once the sorrow of Bengal, which river was tamed by a multipurpose valley corporation?Read the answer and worked solution →In southern Tibet the Brahmaputra is known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →In Bangladesh, after the Tista joins, the Brahmaputra is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which two major Peninsular rivers flow west instead of east?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Cotton needs how many frost-free days?

  1. 210
  2. 90
  3. 365
  4. 30
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Correct answer: A. 210

1. Cotton takes 6 to 8 months to mature. 2. Frost would kill the crop. 3. It needs 210 frost-free days. _Source: syllabus Geography, Contemporary India II, Chapter 4, Agriculture._

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Land reform was the main focus of which Five Year Plan?

  1. Tenth
  2. First
  3. Second
  4. Fifth
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Correct answer: B. First

1. Zamindari abolition and consolidation were priorities. 2. This came right after Independence. 3. It was the First Five Year Plan. _Source: syllabus Geography, Contemporary India II, Chapter 4, Agriculture._

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Operation Flood is another name for the:

  1. Blue Revolution
  2. Golden Revolution
  3. White Revolution
  4. Green Revolution
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Correct answer: C. White Revolution

1. It was a strategy of the 1960s and 1970s. 2. It concerned milk. 3. That is the White Revolution. _Source: syllabus Geography, Contemporary India II, Chapter 4, Agriculture._

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