Agriculture: CBSE Class 10 Geography practice questions
Practise 50 questions on Agriculture, free, with an explanation for each answer.
Sample questions
Which type of farming is also called 'slash and burn' agriculture?
- Intensive subsistence farming
- Commercial farming
- Primitive subsistence farming
- Plantation farming
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C. Primitive subsistence farming
In primitive subsistence farming farmers clear a patch, burn it, grow food crops for the family and move on when fertility falls. Intensive subsistence farming uses high inputs on crowded land, commercial farming uses modern inputs for the market, and plantations grow one crop on a large area.
A farmer sows gram in November and harvests it in May. Which season is this crop in?
- Kharif
- Zaid
- Aus
- Rabi
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D. Rabi
Gram is a rabi crop. Rabi crops are sown from October to December and harvested from April to June. Kharif crops are harvested in September and October.
Rice is a commercial crop in Haryana and Punjab but a subsistence crop in Odisha. What does this show?
- Rice cannot be sold in Odisha
- The degree of commercialisation of agriculture varies from one region to another
- Commercial farming never uses modern inputs
- A crop must always be subsistence or always commercial everywhere
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B. The degree of commercialisation of agriculture varies from one region to another
A crop may be sold mainly for the market in one region and eaten by the farming family in another. The degree of commercialisation varies by region. It is wrong to say a crop is commercial or subsistence everywhere.
Topics covered
- Types of farming
- Primitive subsistence farming
- Intensive subsistence farming
- Commercial farming
- Plantation farming
- Cropping pattern
- Rabi crops
- Rice
- Major crops
- Wheat
- Fibre crops
- Millets and maize
- Maize
- Pulses
- World ranking
- Sugarcane
- Oilseeds
- Tea
- Coffee
- Jute
- Rubber
- Horticulture
- Reforms
- Bhoodan and Gramdan
- Crops and industries