Intensive Subsistence Agriculture, Commercial Farming, and Its Classification as Plantation and Extensive Agriculture

Q.

Differentiate between subsistence and commercial farming.

Q.

Name the traditional occupation of India.

Q. Select the plantation crops from the following:

1. Cashew
2. Sugarcane
3. Wheat
4. Paddy

Q. What is shifting agriculture called in Venezuela?

1. Masole
2. Ray
3. Milpa
4. Conuco

Q. What is the slash and burn method called in the western ghats?

1. Kumari
2. Khil
3. Kuruwa
4. Koman

Q. Commercial farming involves using modern inputs such as __________, chemical fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides to improve ______.

1. modern machines
2. high-yielding variety seeds
3. productivity
4. quality

Q.

___________cultivation is found in thinly populated areas.

1. Extensive Farming

2. Intensive Farming

3. Shifting

4. Mixed Farming

Q. Select the conditions that make intensive subsistence agriculture preferable.

1. Variety yield
2. High yield
3. Large lands
4. Biochemical infused lands

Q.

______ agriculture needs huge investment

Q. Which of the following need(s) of the people is/are fulfilled by commercial farming?

1. Milk
2. Cotton fibers
3. Eggs
4. Jute straws

Q.

Which crops are collectively called ‘Dry crops’?

1. Oil seeds

2. Plantation crops

3. Food crops

4. Millets

Q.

Sustainable agriculture involves

1. Mixed cropping

2. Crop rotation

3. Mixed farming

4. All of the above

Q. Primitive subsistence agriculture is also known as .

1. shifting cultivation
2. pastoral farming
3. mixed farming

Q. The right to inheritance has led to the division of land into smaller fragments among successive generations.

1. True
2. False

Q. How long do farmers cultivate on the same land using the slash and burn technique?

1. As long as the farmer wishes
2. Until soil loses fertility
3. Three crop yields
4. Two crop yields

Q. Match these countries with their respective indigenous names of shifting cultivation.

1. Mexico
2. Brazil
3. Vietnam
4. Indonesia
5. Venezuela
6. Milpa
7. Conuco
8. Roca
9. Ladang
10. Ray

Q. Plantation agriculture is also known as commercial grain farming.

1. True
2. False

Q. Among the below given options, select the crops that are grown in plantation farming.

1. Tea
2. Coffee
3. Rubber
4. Cotton
5. Sugarcane
6. Cashew
7. Banana
8. Maize

Q. Match the following places with their respective indigenous names of shifting cultivation.

1. Dipa
2. Jhumming
3. Dahiya
4. Podu

Q. The degree of commercialisation of the crop remains the same across all regions.

1. True
2. False

Q. Match these places in India with their respective indigenous names of shifting cultivation.

1. Mizoram
2. Manipur
3. Odisha
4. Jharkhand
5. Jhumming
6. Pamlou
7. Pama Dabi
8. Kuruwa

Q. How and when were the rubber plantations started in India?