Agricultural Trends in Andhra Pradesh

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What are the different branches of agriculture?

Q.

Which of the following are the important inputs for agriculture?

1. Fertilizers

2. Pesticides

3. Soil

4. All of the above

Q. What do you mean by the Kharif season ?

1. Summer
2. Monsoon
3. Winter
4. Spring

Q.

What are Guls and Kuls?

Q. Which of the following is the main crop grown in Andhra Pradesh?

1. Paddy
2. Wheat
3. Jute
4. Indigo

Q. Which among the following are cash crops ?

1. Sugarcane
2. Groundnut
3. Maize
4. Chillies

Q. Select the cash crop from the options.

1. Turmeric
2. Ragi
3. Paddy
4. Jowar

Q. Which of the following is not a critical input for farming?

1. Seeds
2. Labour
3. Profits
4. Fertilisers

Q. Which of the following are food crops ?

1. Jowar
2. Ragi
3. Rice
4. Soya Bean.

Q. ________ is the science and art of cultivating plants and rearing livestock.

1. Agriculture
2. Horticulture
3. Mining
4. Animal husbandry

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Agriculture marketing does not comprise …………….…

1. Transportation of the produce to the marketplace for sale.

2. Grading of the produce according to the quality.

3. Storage of the produce for sale in future.

4. Credit taken to meet expenditure on agriculture.

Q. What are cash crops ?

1. Crops grown mainly for their own consumption.
2. Crops grown mainly for its market value.
3. Crops grown to make profit.
4. Crops grown for public consumption.

Q.

___________ crops include cultivation of fruits and vegetables.

Q. Changing land-use patterns of Andhra Pradesh has brought about changes in irrigation techniques. Which of the following is source of water used for irrigation in Andhra Pradesh nowadays?

1. Canals
2. Borewells
3. Tanks
4. Rivers

Q. Select the food crop from the given options.

1. Ragi
2. Cotton
3. Jute
4. Rubber

Q.

Group the following and tabulate them as energy-yielding, protein yielding, oil yielding and fodder crop. Wheat, rice, berseem, maize, gram, oat, pigeon gram, sudan grass, lentil, soybean, groundnut, castor and mustard.

Q. Select the food crops from the following options.

1. Ragi
2. Paddy
3. Rubber
4. Cotton

Q. Which of the folowing are rabi crops ?

1. Maize
2. Wheat
3. Cotton
4. Barley

Q.

Crops are plants tended by man in a field.

1. True
2. False

Q. Which of the following is the primary reason why farmers in India use excessive chemical fertilizers?

1. Fertilizers are cheap.
2. Fertilizers destroy weeds.
3. More fertilizer yields more crops.
4. More fertilizer is good for the soil.

Q. Select the cash crops from the given options.

1. Sugarcane
2. Jowar
3. Ragi
4. Groundnut

Q. What are cash crops ?

1. Crops grown mainly for their own consumption.
2. Crops grown mainly for its market value.
3. Crops grown to make profit.
4. Crops grown for public consumption.

Q. Which of the following lines of work sees the greatest number of individuals involved, in the Indian context?

1. Business
2. Agriculture
3. Law
4. Medicine

Q. Which of the following might be the reason why it is better to work as a construction labourer than as an agricultural labourer?

1. Safer working conditions
2. Higher wages
3. Better job security
4. Absence of inequality in wages

Q. Which of the following are the important inputs for agriculture?

1. Seeds and fertilisers
2. Water
3. Labour
4. All of the given options are important inputs for agriculture.

Q. Pulses like black gram, green gram and oil seeds are mostly grown during the ___ season.

1. kharif
2. rabi
3. jade
4. winter

Q. Which among the following is the main crop of Andra Pradesh ?

1. Ragi
2. Paddy
3. Jowar
4. Maize

Q. Select the cash crop from the options.

1. Paddy
2. Turmeric
3. Jowar
4. Ragi

Q. Select the food crop from the given options.

1. Ragi
2. Jute
3. Cotton
4. Rubber

Q. Which of the following is not a critical input for farming?

1. Profits
2. Seeds
3. Fertilisers
4. Labour