alleryStart learning →Which fibre crop is known as the golden fibre?
ACotton
BHemp
CJute
DSilk
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Jute
1. The nickname comes from the shiny golden tinge of the fibre.
2. Jute grows in flood-plain soils of the east and carries this name.
3. Cotton and hemp are fibres too, but the golden fibre is jute.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Ch 4 'Agriculture' (jess104)_
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