Agricultural Geography Quiz

Bt cotton was created through the addition of genes encoding toxin crystals in the Cry group of endotoxin.

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops. The crops grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, rubber trees, and fruits.

Cooperative farming is not a cause of low productivity in Indian agriculture. Cooperative farming refers to an organisation in which each member-farmer remains the owner of his land individually. But farming is done jointly. Profit is distributed among the member-farmers in the ratio of land owned by them.

The Green Revolution in India was initiated in the 1960s by introducing high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat to increase per hectare productivity.

Kharif crops are domesticated plants that are cultivated and harvested in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh during the Indian subcontinent's monsoon season, which lasts from June to November depending on the area. The southwest monsoon is generally expected to begin around the beginning of June and fade away by the end of September.

Malabar coast is the main spice producer comprising Kerala and Tamil Nadu. As it lies in tropical conditions with ample rainfall, it is best suited for spice production.

Jute is also called “brown paper” as the colour of the jute fibres is brown. Jute is used chiefly to make cloth for wrapping bales of raw cotton, make sacks and coarse cloth and making fine printing paper.

Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus Cinnamomum.

The High Yielding Variety Programme (HYVP) was launched in the Kharif of 1966-67 with an objective to attain self-sufficiency in food by 1970-71.

Grain crops contributed about 127 million Hectare (59%) of the gross cropped area of the country. Rice and wheat occupied 22% and 15% of the total net cultivable area in India.