Contract Farming

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What are non-farming activities in Palampur?

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An agreement enforceable by law is a$.............$

Q. What are the benefits of contract farming?

Q. Which of the following statement(s) are true regarding contract farming ?

1. Farmers use chemical fertilizers intensively.
2. The companies provide financial support to cultivate certain crops.
3. The companies buy the seeds at pre-determined prices.
4. Farmers have no risk in this type of farming.

Q. What are the possible negative consequences of contract farming?

1. Excess funding by companies
2. Depletion of groundwater
3. Deterioration of soil quality
4. Soil fertility increases

Q. In _____ farming, companies advise farmers to follow specific farming practices and also provide financial support.

1. cooperative
2. subsistemce
3. mixed
4. contract

Q. What benefits do farmers derive from contract farming ?

1. Farmers get pre-determined prices.
2. Improves the quality of the soil.
3. Improves the quality of crops.
4. Farmers get financial aid from the companies.

Q. How does the chips companies maintain a stable price for potatoes that they use to manufacture the chips.

1. Find alternatives for potatoes.
2. Buy more potatoes when the price in low.
3. They enter into contract farming with the potato farmers.
4. Cultivate potatoes by themselves

Q. In contract farming, which of the following are provided by a company to a farmer?

1. Seeds
2. Labourers
3. Fertilizers
4. Expert advice

Q. Which of the following is one of the risks farmers bear in contract farming?

1. Lack of resources
2. Poor quality of harvest
3. None of the above are risks farmers have to bear in contract farming.
4. Low funding

Q. Identify which of the following statement is true and which is false.
L. The Court will not enforce a contract the terms of which are uncertain.
M. An agreement to agree in the future constitutes a binding contract.
N. A contract with an intention to contract is not a contract.

1. False False False
2. True True True
3. False True True
4. True True False

Q. Why are the agricultural laboureres payed daily and not monthly?

1. Daily payment is more safe.
2. Daily payment encourages them to work more.
3. They are required to work only for a day or few days.
4. Daily payment is preferred by the workers.

Q. Where one party is in a position to dominate the will of another and uses his superior position to obtain the consent of a weaker party, the consent is said to be obtained by _______________.

1. coercion
2. undue influence
3. fraud
4. misrepresentation

Q. Which of the following is not an essential element of a valid contract ?

1. Offer
2. Impossibility of performance
3. Legality of object
4. Lawful consideration

Q. How does the chips companies maintain a stable price for potatoes that they use to manufacture the chips.

1. Find alternatives for potatoes.
2. Buy more potatoes when the price in low.
3. They enter into contract farming with the potato farmers.
4. Cultivate potatoes by themselves

Q. A promises to paint B's flat. B after some time forbids him to do so. The contract is discharged under ___________.

1. Alteration
2. Waiver
3. Rescission
4. Surrender

Q. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given.
In which case contract is not always discharged ________________.

1. On death of the promisor
2. On insolvency of the promisor
3. When the promisor becomes promisee
4. None of these

Q. Why are the agricultural laboureres payed daily and not monthly?

1. Daily payment encourages them to work more.
2. Daily payment is more safe.
3. Daily payment is preferred by the workers.
4. They are required to work only for a day or few days.

Q. Under which of these circumstances an agreement become void and illegal _______________.

1. When it is an unilateral contract
2. When it is not in writing
3. When it is avoidable at the option of the other party
4. When it is forbidden by law

Q. Which of the following are the ill effects of contract farming ?

1. Low harvest
2. Deterioration of soil quality
3. Depletion of groundwater resources
4. Vulnerability over farmer's household food security

Q. What are the possible negative consequences of contract farming?

1. Excess funding by companies
2. Depletion of groundwater
3. Deterioration of soil quality
4. Soil fertility increases

Q. Which of the following statement(s) are true regarding contract farming ?

1. Farmers use chemical fertilizers intensively.
2. The companies provide financial support to cultivate certain crops.
3. The companies buy the seeds at pre-determined prices.
4. Farmers have no risk in this type of farming.