Agriculture - Section 1

11:  

What is multiple cropping?

A.

When seeds are sown on a piece of land and then seedlings are transplanted in different fields.

B.

Dividing a field in two or more parts and then sowing different crops in each part.

C.

Raising in succession only one type of crop in the same piece of land.

D.

Raising two or more crops in succession in a year on the same land.

 
 

Option: B

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12:  

Which of the following crops is highly sensitive to frost?

A.

Rice

B.

Maize

C.

Cotton

D.

Barley

 
 

Option: C

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13:  

Which of the following refers to 'Green Manure'?

A.

Adding NPK fertilizers to the soil

B.

Growing leguminous crops and ploughing it

C.

Adding farmyard manure

D.

Applying slurry manure obtained from Gobar gas plants

 
 

Option: B

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14:  

The World's major commercial fishing grounds are located in the

A.

cool waters of the northern hemisphere in comparatively higher latitudes

B.

equatorial water

C.

temperate waters of tropical seas

D.

warm waters of seas in southern hemisphere

 
 

Option: A

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15:  

The fishing grounds in the Pacific Ocean, the world's greatest fishing regions, lie between the

A.

Bering Sea and the Mediterranean Sea

B.

The North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea

C.

The East China Sea and the Bering Sea

D.

The Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Sea

 
 

Option: C

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