UPSC CSE Agriculture — practice questions
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[IAS 2003]The three major cereals in India under high yielding varieties in declining order are:Which one of the following Indian States is the largest producer of natural rubber?The important feature of shifting cultivation is :Fertility of soil can be improved by :Extensive subsistence agriculture is ;Mixed farming means:presence of water retentive clayey loam soilWhich one of the following regions experiences three cropping season for rice in India (Rice Bowl of India)?In which month are the kharif crops sown?It is combined with transhumanceAmong the following crops which one occupies the largest area in India?Which one of the following States is the largest producer of black pepper in India?The most important item of export among marine products from India is :Which is the home of "Alphonso" mango?Which amidst the following States does not cultivate wheat?The odd product out of the following isThe approximate representation of land use classification in India isWhich one among the following is not a plantation crop?Mandya is well-known as a coffee-producing region. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? [IAS 20The leading states in the production of cotton in India are:Which State has the largest number of sugar mills?A village patwari updates the land-use register each year. Which department keeps land-use records?A field has lain uncultivated for six years. Under which land-use category does it fall?A farmer rests one plot for a single season this year. That plot is counted as:Which land-use category has grown fastest in India since 1950-51?Village grazing land is shrinking as fields spread onto it. What is this called?A dryland farmer in a region getting 60 cm of rain grows hardy crops. What is dryland farming's rainfall limitIn a rainfed village, farming is locally called barani. Barani farming depends on:A farmer sows wheat, gram and mustard in October. Which cropping season is this?Watermelons and cucumbers are grown on irrigated land after the rabi harvest. Which season is this?Foodgrains dominate Indian farming. Roughly what share of the total cropped area do they occupy?India ranks third in world cereal production. Which two countries are ahead?Punjab and Haryana were not traditional rice areas. When did irrigated rice farming start there?A Punjab farmer harvests over 4,000 kg of wheat per hectare. Which states have such high wheat yields?More than half of India's jowar comes from one state. Which one?A Rajasthan farmer picks a hardy crop that survives dry spells in hot conditions. Which coarse cereal fits?Why do pulses like gram and tur improve soil fertility?A trader buys pigeon pea, also called red gram. Which pulse is this?Rajasthan grows about one-third of India's output of which oilseed group?Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra together grow about 90 per cent of which crop?Long staple American cotton grown in northwest India is locally called:West Bengal accounts for about three-fourths of India's output of which fibre crop?Which state produces about two-fifths of India's sugarcane?Farmers, fishermen and miners work outdoors. What are workers in primary activities nicknamed?Which is the oldest economic activity known to humans?Gatherers sell tree bark that yields which medicine?Chewing gum base, chicle, comes from the milky juice of which tree?Herders who move with livestock in search of pasture and water practise:Which animals do nomads rear in the mountains of Tibet and the Andes?Gujjars and Bakarwals move to mountain pastures in summer and back to the plains in winter. This is called:Fenced ranches where one animal type is bred scientifically are typical of which countries?Tribal farmers burn forest, farm the patch for a few years and move on. What is this called?After how many years does a shifting cultivator's patch lose fertility and get abandoned?Shifting cultivation is called Jhum in northeast India. What is it called in Indonesia and Malaysia?Wet paddy farming on tiny family plots in monsoon Asia gives high yield per hectare but what?Large estates, single crop, cheap labour and big capital describe which farming type?The British set up rubber plantations in which colony?Large coffee plantations in Brazil are called:Wheat farms on the Prairies, Pampas and Steppes are examples of which farming?Which farming gives equal weight to crops and livestock, with fodder crops and rotation?Which is described as the most advanced and efficient type of rearing milch animals?Which is the largest region of commercial dairy farming in the world?Grape cultivation, a speciality of the Mediterranean, is called:Which country is famous for growing tulips flown to cities across Europe?Farms growing only vegetables at a distance a truck can cover overnight practise:The Planning Commission was set up in March 1950 by what means?In 1944 a group of big industrialists drafted a proposal for a planned economy. What was it called?Who was the Chairperson of the Planning Commission?The First Five Year Plan document was released in which month and year?The Fourth Plan was due in 1966 but India took what instead?Economist K. N. Raj argued India should do what for its first two decades?The First Five Year Plan focused mainly on which sector?Who led the team that drafted the Second Five Year Plan stressing heavy industries?At which session did the Congress declare the socialist pattern of society as its goal?Which Congress leader who later formed the Bharatiya Lok Dal argued for keeping agriculture at the centre of pWhich Gandhian economist proposed a blueprint stressing rural industrialisation?Which State's development path, with near total literacy and long life expectancy despite low incomes, is callIndia's development strategy took elements of capitalism and socialism. What was it called?Which land reform is described as the most significant and successful?Severe droughts struck India in which years, causing famine-like conditions?In the Bihar famine year 1967, the death rate was how much higher than the next year?Facing the food crisis, India accepted food aid mainly from which country?Subsidised high-yielding seeds, fertilisers and guaranteed purchase prices began which programme?Which regions became agriculturally prosperous through the Green Revolution?Verghese Kurien, the Milkman of India, is linked with which dairy cooperative town?Operation Flood, which built a nationwide milk grid, started in which year?How many private banks were nationalised under Indira Gandhi after 1967?Villagers in early 1973 hugged trees to stop commercial logging. In which present-day State did this begin?The forest department refused villagers ash trees for farm tools but gave the plot to whom?After Chipko, the government banned tree felling in the Himalayan regions for how many years?Women in Chipko also campaigned against alcoholism. Who usually supplied liquor to the men?Peasants in the Telangana region demanded land redistribution early after independence under which parties' leDalit Panthers, a militant organisation of Dalit youth, was formed in 1972 in which State?Sustained Dalit agitation led to a comprehensive law against atrocities in which year?In January 1988 about twenty thousand farmers camped for three weeks in which city against electricity rate hiThe Bharatiya Kisan Union drew its members mainly from which region?Which Maharashtra farmers' body called the movement a war of Bharat against India?Rayata Sangha is a farmers' organisation of which State?The National Fishworkers' Forum won its first legal battle against the Union government in which year?Women who joined an adult literacy drive in Dubagunta village started which movement?How many times were arrack auctions in Nellore district postponed during the movement?Which constitutional amendments gave women reservations in local bodies?The Narmada valley project planned how many big dams?Sardar Sarovar is in Gujarat. The Narmada Sagar Project is in which State?How many villages were expected to be submerged by the Sardar Sarovar dam?Narmada Bachao Andolan crystallised as a movement around which years?The National Rehabilitation Policy, seen as an NBA achievement, was framed in which year?The Rajasthan body MKSS began the Right to Information movement in 1990. What does MKSS stand for?The Right to Information Bill received presidential assent in which month and year?In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries roughly what share of India's population lived in villages?Who authored the Ain-i Akbari, the chief source on Mughal agrarian arrangements?Indo-Persian sources most often called the peasant by which term?Resident cultivators were khud-kashta. Non-resident cultivators from another village were called:In Bengal, how many acres would make a peasant a rich asami?Areas receiving how much annual rainfall were generally rice-producing zones?Akbar and his nobles first came across tobacco in which year?The two seasonal crop cycles of Mughal agriculture were kharif and:How many varieties of rice did Bengal produce, according to the Ain?Cotton and sugarcane were the perfect crops. What Persian term did sources use for such cash crops?