CHAPTER#04: AGRICULTURE SECTOR AND ITS ISSUE

CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER.

1) ----------- is the backbone of the Pakistan economy and the mainstay of

our national economic life?
a) Agriculture
b) Industrial
c) services
d) trade
2) What is the annual average growth rate of agriculture in last decade?
a) 5.5%
b) 3.5%
c) 4.5%
d) 6.5%
3) Agriculture contributes about ----------- to the GDP?
a) 15%
b) 25%
c) 35%
d) 55%
4) How much the total area of Pakistan is cultivated?
a) 55%
b) 35%
c) 70%
d) 25%
5) Which one is the main source of foreign exchange earning?
a) Agriculture
b) Textile
c) Foreign remittance
d) Manufacturing
6) Which one is the largest sector of Pakistan economy?
a) Industrial
b) Agriculture
c) Banking
d) Manufacturing
7) How much of the total area cultivated is under irrigation system?
a) 80%
b) 65%
c) 70%
d) 85%
8) The agriculture sector of Pakistan generates______ % of employment
a) 39.0
b) 40.5
c) 42.0
d) 43.5
9) First agriculture reforms in Pakistan?
a) June 24, 1959
b) Jan 24, 1956
c) Jan 30,1959
d) Jan 24, 1959
10) Ayub land reforms how many acre of irrigated land can have?
a) 300 acre
b) 500 acre
c) 700 acre
d) 1000 acre
11) Indicates the main reason for the failure of land reforms in Pakistan?
a) Landlord got stay order from courts
b) Landlords surrendered hilly lands
c) Landlords got favor from consolidation wing of Board of Revenue
d) Landlords transferred land in the name of their family members
12) Pakistan Green Revolution was started in the period of______
a) Iskander Mirza
b) Z.A. Bhutto
c) Ayub Khan
d) Ali bogra
13) Green revolution came into being due to evolution of_________________?
a) . Wheat varieties
b) Sugarcane varieties
c) Cotton varieties
d) All of the above
14) What was the Green Revolution?
 a) The term refers to the use of plant residues ('green manure') for
fertilizer.
b) It is a reference to the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and
Development.
c) It refers to the appointment of Green Party ministers in Germany's
coalition governments between 1998 and 2005.
d) It refers to the widespread adoption of high-yielding cereal crop
varieties by farmers in many developing countries starting in the mid-
1960s.

15) Agriculture prices tend to be unstable because?

a) Supply is price elastic
b) Demand is price elastic
c) Supply is stable
d) Demand and supply are price inelastic
16) A policy of the government whereby it acts to influence the prices of
agriculture output and inputs is ----------
a) Agriculture price policy
b) Agriculture taxation
c) Support price
d) All of above
17) Which one is the objective of agricultural price policy
a) Stabilization of prices
b) Generate public revenues
c) Induce great production
d) All of the above
18) The agricultural price support program is an example of _____
a) Price ceiling
b) Price floor
c) Equilibrium pricing
d) None of these
19) How many methods to make land reforms?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 8
20) Which one is not the method of land reform?
a) Revolutionary method
b) Conservative method
c) Statistical method
d) None of these
21) Revolutionary method of land reforms adopted by _______
a) Socialist countries
b) Communist countries
c) Capitalist countries
d) Both a) and b)
22) Z.A. Bhutto land reforms ownership celling is ______
a) 150 acres unirrigate
b) 300 acres irrigate
c) 150 acres irrigate, 300 acres unirrigate
d) None of these
23) Green revolution occurred in agriculture sector by following the------
a) Inventions
b) Innovations
c) Invention and innovations
d) Intensive
24) The production of wheat increased by 60% in Pakistan during ____
a) 1967-69
b) 1986-89
c) 2001-2004
d) All of the above
25) Green revolution bring ________ changes in agricultural sector
a) Mechanical and biological
b) Inventions
c) Innovation
d) None of these
26) Another name of green revolution is_______
a) Grain revolution
b) Gain revolution
c) Both a) and b)
d) All of the above
27) Support price is also known as____________
a) Minimum price
b) Maximum price
c) Price of agricultural product
d) Both c) and d)
28) In 1973_________ was formulated to purchase cotton
a) Cotton Export Corporation
b) Rice Export Corporation
c) Cotton Import Corporation
d) None of these
29) Budget deficit means___________
a) Government spending increases by revenues
b) Household spending increases by revenue
c) Government spending increases by price
d) Both a) and c)
30) Which one is not in the favor of agricultural taxation?
a) Increase in price of agricultural good
b) Subsistence farming
c) Increase in tax base
d) Better use of land reforms
31) Terms of trade always against the_______ sector
a) Agricultural
b) Industrial
c) Banking
d) Commerce
LECTURER: ZULAIKHA ABID