(c) Rice

DWARKA TUTORS (d) Wheat

7. The main food crop of Rabi season is:

(a) Wheat
Social- Agriculture MCQ SET 1 & 2 (b) Rice
(c) Maize
SET 1 (d) Juwan

1. Which of the following is not correct about 8. A short season between the rabbi and Khari
plantation farming? season is known as:
(a) In this type of farming, a single crop is grown (a) Aus
on a large area. (b) Boro
(b) The plantation has an interface of agriculture (c) Zaid
and industry. (d) none of the above
(c) Plantations cover large tracts of land called
estates. 9. Important non-food crops of our country are:
(d) Farmers clear a patch of land by felling trees (a) Tea and coffee
and burning them, to produce cereals and other (b) Millets and pulses
food crops. (c) Cotton and jute
(d) None of the above
2. Which of the following are plantation crops?
(a) Rice and maize 10. Which is the main food crop of the eastern and
(b) Wheat and pulses southern part of the country?
(c) Tea, coffee, banana and sugarcane (a) Rice
(d) None of the above (b) Wheat
(c) Maize
3. The three major cropping seasons of India are: (d) Sugarcane
(a) Aus, Aman and Boro
(b) Rabi, Khari and Zaid 11. The two main wheat growing regions are:
(c) Baisakh, Paus and Chait (a) The Ganga-Sutlej plains and the Deccan Trap
(d) None of the above (b) North-eastern part and eastern-coastal plains
(c) Deccan plateau and Konkan coast
4. Rabi crops are: (d) None of the above
(a) sown in winter and harvested in summer
(b) sown during rainy season and harvested in 12. Wheat re hires annual rainfall between:
winter (a) 50 and 75 cm
(c) sown in summer and harvested in winter (b) about 200 cm
(d) None of the above (c) 200 and 300 cm
(d) less than 20 cm
5. Khari crops are grown:
(a) with the onset of monsoon and harvested in 13. The third most important food crop of our
September-October country is:
(b) with the onset of winter and harvested in (a) Rice
summer (b) Wheat
(c) with onset of Autumn and harvested in (c) Juwan
summer (d) Ragi
(d) None of the above
14. Which State is the largest producer of bajra?
6. The main food crop of Khari season is: (a) Rajasthan
(a) Mustard (b) Maharashtra
(b) Pulses (c) Gujarat
(d) Haryana
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15. Which is the right condition for the growth of (c) Garo Hills
maize? (d) Baba Budan Hills
(a) Temperature between 21 °C to 27°C and old
alluvial soil 22. Which of the following crops is an important
(b) Temperature below 17°C and shallow black raw material for automobile industry?
soil (a) Pulses
(c) Temperature of 25°C and 200 cm of rainfall (b) Ragi
(d) None of the above (c) Rubber
(d) None of the above
16. Which of the following crops is a major
source of protein in a vegetarian diet? 23. Rearing of silk worms for the production of
(a) Wheat silk fiber is known as:
(b) Rice (a) Sericulture
(c) Pulses (b) Aquaculture
(d) Oilseeds (c) Apeculture
(d) Pisciculture
17. Which one of the following is not true for
pulses? 24. Which of the following is known as golden
(a) Pulses are grown in both rabbi and Khari fiber?
season (a) Cotton
(b) Pulses are leguminous crops (b) Jute
(c) They are grown in rotation with other crops (c) Hemp
(d) Pulses re uire intensive irrigation facilities (d) Silk

18. Which is the ideal condition for the growth of 25. Which one of the following describes a system
sugarcane? of agriculture where a single crop is grown on a
(a) Temperature of 21°C to 27°C and an annual large area? (Textbook)
rainfall between 75 cm and 100 cm (a) Shifting agriculture
(b) Temperature below 17°C and 50 to 75 cm (b) Plantation agriculture
rainfall (c) Horticulture
(c) Temperature of 25°C and 200 cm of rainfall (d) Intensive agriculture
(d) none of the above
26. Which one of the following is a rabbi crop?
19. What percentage of our cropped area is (Textbook)
covered by oilseeds? (a) Rice
(a) 21 (b) Millets
(b) 12 (c) Gram
(c) 2 (d) Cotton
(d) 4
27. Which one of the following is a leguminous j
20. Which of the following conditions can spoil crop? (Textbook)
tea crop? (a) Pulses
(a) Frequent showers evenly distributed over the (b) Jawar
year (c) Millets
(b) Frost free climate (d) Sesamum
(c) Deep fertile well drained soil
(d) Clayey soil which has high water holding 28. Which one of the following is announced by
capacity the government in support of a crop? (Textbook)
(a) Maximum support price
21. Coffee cultivation was first introduced in: (b) Minimum support price
(a) Himalayas (c) Moderate support price
(b) Aravalli Hills (d) Influential support price

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29. Primitive subsistence farming is also known SET 2
as:
(a) Mixed farming 1. How much of India’s population is engaged in
(b) Cooperative farming Agricultural activities
(c) Slash and bum agriculture
(d) Commercial farming A. Two third
B. Half
30. Plantation agriculture is a type of: C. One third
(a) Subsistence farming D. Almost all
(b) Commercial farming
(c) Mixed farming 2. Over these years, cultivation methods have
(d) None of the above changed significantly depending upon the
characteristics of ………………….

A.  Type of crop
B. technological know-how
C. Type of season
D. Government intervention

3.  Farming has varied from subsistence to

……….. Type.

A. Intensive
B. Extensive
C. Commercial
D. Plantation

4. Agriculture is practiced on small patches of

land with the help of primitive tools like hoe, Dao
and digging sticks, and family/ community labor-
what type of agriculture is this?

A. Intensive
B. Primitive subsistence
C. Extensive
D. Plantation

5. What has been the main dependency of

primitive farming?

A. monsoon,
B. labor
C.  Suitability of other environment
D. technical

6. Which type of agriculture is called ‘slash and

burn’ agriculture?

A. Plantation
B. Intensive
C. Primitive subsistence
D. Extensive

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 7. What are the features of primitive subsistence 13. What are the characteristics of plantation
agriculture? farming?

A. Large amount of labor A. Multiple crops

B. When the soil fertility decreases, the farmers B.  Using capital intensive inputs, with the help of
shift and clear a fresh patch of land migrant laborers
C. Canals were used C.  The produce is used for various reasons
D.  Use of fertilizers D. Crop rotation on the same piece of land

8. What is ‘slash and burn’ agriculture called in 14. Name important plantation crops?
many north eastern states?
A. tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, banana
A.  Humming B. Cotton
B. Mila C. Wheat & Rice
C. Mazola D. Nuts
D. ray
15. Which state is known for growing tea?
9. Intensive Subsistence Farming is
……………….farming. A. Assam
B. Shilling
A. Machine based C. Meghalaya
B. Crop rotation D. Sikkim
C.  Labor intensive
D. Soil consistent 16. How many cropping seasons does India have?

10. Why is there enormous pressure on A. 4

agricultural land? B. 2
C. 5
A. Due to the law of inheritance and division of D. 3
land.
B.  Overpopulation 17. When are rabbi crops harvested?
C. Small scale farmers are not able to earn
livelihood A. October
D. Farmers of less land holdings are not able to B. April
afford the right techno use C. December
D. July
11. Which type of farming has the use of higher
doses of modern inputs, e.g. high yielding variety 18. Identify the Rabi crops?
(HYV) seeds, chemical fertilizers, insecticides and
pesticides? A. Juwan
B. Rice
A. Primitive subsistence C. Soybean
B. Plantation D. Peas
C. Extensive
D. Commercial 19. Which state is known for growing Rabi
crops?
12. If rice is a commercial crop in Haryana and
Punjab, in which state is it a subsistence crop? A. Madhya Pradesh
B. Rajasthan
A.  Madhya Pradesh C. Odisha
B. Maharashtra D. Punjab
C. Odisha
D. Rajasthan  
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 20. Availability of ______ during winter months A. 2
due to the western temperate cyclones helps in the B. 3
success of Rabi crops. C. 1
D. 4
A. Monsoons
B. Precipitation 28. Name a crop grown in the Zaid Season?
C. Frost
D. Winds A. Groundnut
B. Jute
21. Which states are known for their success in C. Mustard
the green revolution? D. Watermelon

A. Punjab 29. How long does sugarcane take to grow?

B. Uttar Pradesh
C. Uttara hand A. Almost 4 months
D. Gujrat B. Almost 6 months
C. Almost a year
22. When are Khari crops harvested? D. Almost 3 months

A. September-October 30. India the ………..largest producer of rice in

B. December- January the world.
C. June-July
D. April- May A. First
B. Second
23. Name a crop grown during the Khari season? C. Third
D. Fourth
A. Barley
B. Gram 31. Rice re hires high humidity with …….cm
C. Rice annual rainfall?
D. Juwan
A. above 100 cm
24. Name an important wheat growing region. B. below 100 cm
A. West Bengal C. above 75 cm
B. Odisha D. above 60 cm
C. Punjab
D. Maharashtra 32.  How has it become possible to grow rice in
areas of less rainfall such as Punjab, Haryana and
25. Name 1 crop grown in the Zaid season. western Uttar Pradesh and parts of Rajasthan?
A. Peas
B. Murad A. With roof top water reserves
C. Baja B. Canals
D. Maize C. lakes
D. Rivers
26. Name an important rice growing region?
33. What kind of weather conditions are
A. Assam favorable for the growth of Wheat?
B. Kerala
C. West Bengal A. Hot wet weather
D. Maharashtra B. Monsoon
C. Dry hot weather
27. In Assam, West Bengal and Odisha, how D. cool growing season and a bright sunshine
many crops of paddy are grown in a year?

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 34.  Wheat re hires 50 to 75 cm of annual rainfall C. Uttar Pradesh
evenly distributed over the growing season? D. Maharashtra

A. 80 to 100 41. Baja grows well on ……...soil?

B. 50 to 70
C. 75 to 90 A. Alluvial soil
D. 90 to 100 B. Red soil
C. Arid soil
35. Which are the two important wheat-growing D. Black soil
zones in the country?
42. Which crop is used both for food and fodder?
A. Ganga-Saluja plains
B. Coastal areas A. Juwan
C. region of the Deccan B. Maize
D. Deep South C. Baja
D. Wheat
36. Which crops come under the classification of
millets? 43.  India is the ……………...largest producer as
well as the consumer of pulses in the world.
A. Peas and maize
B. Mustard and soybean A. First
C. Murad and moong B. Second
D. Juwan & Bara C. Third
D. Fourth
37. Millets have high nutritional value and are
rich in ……….. 44. Which crop needs manual labor from sowing
to harvesting?
A. Iron, calcium
B. Minerals A. Watermelon
C. Phosphate B. Sugarcane
D. Proteins C. Maize
D. Baja
38. Juwan is the……….most important food crop
with respect to area and production. 45. Name a major Banana producing state of
India?
A. First
B. Second A. Andhra Pradesh
C. Third B. Telangana
D. fourth C. Meghalaya
D. Kerala
39.  Juwan is a rain-fed crop mostly grown in the
moist areas which needs ……... irrigation. 46. Where is rubber mainly grown?

A. High A. Andhra Pradesh

B. Medium B. Karnataka
C. less C. Andaman and Nicobar
D. No D. Madhya Pradesh

40.  Name a major Juwan producing State? 47. Which fiber crop is obtained from cocoons of
the silkworms fed on green leaves?
A. Haryana
B. Punjab A. Jute
B. Silk
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C. Cotton
D. hemp

48. Which fiber is also known as the golden

fiber?

A. Jute
B. Silk
C. Cotton
D. hemp

. 49. Name a state which is a major producer of

Jute?

A. Andhra Pradesh
B. Maharashtra
C. Madhya Pradesh
D. West Bengal

50. In 2016, India was the ………...largest

producer of fruits and vegetables in the world.

A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth

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