Geography Assignment

Chapter 4: Agriculture

One-mark Questions

1. Which type of farming involves an interface of agriculture and industry?

2. How much percentage of the world’s vegetable is produced in India?
3. Which oil seed is grown both as rabi and kharif crop?
4. What is sericulture?
5. Name the plantation crops of Assam and Karnataka.
6. Give reason as to why jute is losing market to synthetic fibre.
7. Who initiated Bhoodan-Gramdan movement?
8. How has the cultivation of rice become possible in the areas of less rainfall such as Punjab
and Haryana?
9. Which type of crop requires winter precipitation due to temperate cyclone?
10. What is ‘White Revolution’?

Three-mark Questions

11. Give reason as to why there is enormous pressure on agricultural land in Intensive farming.
12. What is the importance of pulses in India? Why are pulses grown as a rotation crop?

Five- mark Questions

13. Define plantation agriculture. Explain any four characteristics of plantation agriculture.
14. Explain how Primitive subsistence farming is different from the intensive subsistence
farming.
15. MAP-SKILL
On a political map of India, mark the followings
(i) Largest/ Major producer states of Sugarcane,
(ii) Largest/ Major producer states of Tea,
(iii) Largest/ Major producer states of Coffee,
(iv) Largest/ Major producer states of Rubber,
(v) Largest/ Major producer states of Cotton
(vi) Largest/ Major producer states of Jute