Impacts on Agriculture

Q.

"Subsidies put a huge burden on the government finances but are necessary for poor and marginal farmers." Explain.

Q. The Indian economy was a/an economy before the British rule.

1. agrarian
2. industrial
3. service-orineted
4. financial

Q.

Describe the occupational structure of India in the colonial period.

Q. Land Development Banks (LDBs) have been effectively established in India since __________.

1. 1920
2. 1956
3. 1951
4. 1929

Q.

Globalisation of the economy has helped the farmers in marketing their produce and has helped in raising their standard of living. Do you agree?

Q.

Why was the Indian economy called an agricultural economy on the eve of Independence?

Q. The lack of both incentive and in agriculture led to agriculture being a stagnant sector.

1. investment
2. seeds
3. farmers
4. taxation

Q. Which of the following is one of the reasons why IT can play a critical role in achieving sustainabledevelopment and food security in the thetwenty-first century?

1. IT can help in educating people from rural areas about the risks involved in farm-related occupations.
2. IT can help in disseminating information regarding prices, weather and soil conditions for
   growing different crops etc.
3. IT can shift occupations from the farm economy by pushing dependent people to urban areas.
4. All of the above.

Q.

The systems of settlements employed in India were the Zamindari, the Mahalwari and the ___ systems.

Q.

The Ryotwari system was implemented in

1. South India

2. Central India

3. North-West India

4. North India

Q. Under the system, the profits only went to the landlords and the British, and cultivators received nothing in return.

1. Zamindari
2. Ryotwari
3. Mahalwari
4. Nyaywari

Q. Explain the given statement with proper examples: Insecurity of tenancy rights and social conditions affect the productivity of the land.

Q.

Jute industries were located in _______.

1. Gujarat

2. Maharshtra

3. Bengal

4. Rajasthan

Q.

Which system of land settlement put the farmer's interests first and benefitted the farmers?

1. Zamindari system

2. Mahalwari system

3. Ryotwari system

4. None of these

Q. Increased use of ________ and __________ on a particular plot of land leads to an increase in crop production at a diminishing rate.

1. capital and labour
2. capital and entrepreneurship
3. entrepreneurship and land
4. none of the above

Q. The land ownership laws prevailing in a country have a significant influence on the productivity of the land.

1. True
2. False

Q. Economic Policies followed by India, immediately after independence, were _____________ in nature.

1. conservative
2. liberalised
3. globalised
4. none of the above

Q.

What was the reason for low productivity in agriculture sector at the eve of independence?

1. HYV Seeds

2. Land settlement which was unfavourable to the farmers

3. None of the above

4. Improved irrigation system

Q. What is the fundamental factor that affects the productivity of land?

1. Capital
2. Secondary resources
3. Subordinate land
4. None of these

Q.

Under which of the following systems was the village headman responsible for rent collection?

1. Ryotwari system

2. Mahalwari system

3. Zamindari system

4. None of these

Q.

In which of the following systems was the rent fixed and a revenue collector was appointed by the government who was responsible for rent collection?

1. Zamindari system

2. Ryotwari system

3. Mahalwari system

4. None of these

Q. At the time of independence nearly 76% of the population was dependent on agriculture sector, by 2009-10 this shifted to approximately ________.

1. 50%
2. 80%
3. 70%
4. None of the above

Q. Which of the following is not a correct feature of land?

1. Diminishing returns
2. Passive factor
3. Free gift of nature
4. Mobile

Q. Write the benefits that India had from industrialisation.

Q.

At the time of independence, which of these sectors dominated in terms of the number of people?

1. Manufacturing sector

2. Service sector

3. Agricultural sector

4. None of these

Q.

Which of the following statements are correct with reference to the zamindari system:

i) The profit accruing out of the agriculture sector was proposed to go to the cultivators.

ii) The main interest of the zamindars was only to collect rent regardless of the economic condition of the cultivators.

1. a) Both are correct

2. b) Both are incorrect

3. c) (i) correct (ii) incorrect

4. d) (ii) correct (i) incorrect