Agriculture

Unit 3

Chapter: 3


A. very Short Type Questions: Mark: 1

1. What is agriculture?

2. How many types of agriculture are three, according to permanence?

3. How many types of agriculture are three according to farm size?

4. Name the two types of agriculture, according to economic consideration.

5. What type of agriculture is livestock rearing?

6. What is commercial agriculture?

7. Name any two countries where commercial agriculture is practiced.

8. Name the places where subsistence agriculture.

9. Name some crops grow in the rainy areas.

10. Where is wet farming practiced?

11. Who introduced plantation agriculture in their colonies?

12. What was introduced by the Europeans in their colonies?

13. Name any two crops of plantation agriculture. 

14. Who introduced coffee and cocoa cultivation in west Africa?

15. What was introduced by the French colonialists in West Africa?

16. Who introduced tea in India and Sri Lanka?

17. Who introduced rubber in Malaysia?

18. What was introduced by the British in Malaysia?

19. What is ‘Kolkhoz’?

20. Where was ‘Kolkhoz’?

21. What is horticulture?

22. Name any two countries who are greatly advanced in horticultures practice.

23. Name any two Indian states that shown distinction in horticultural practice.

24. Where is rice cultivated?

25. Which climatic condition is necessary for rice cultivation?

26. What should be the required temperature to cultivate rice crop?

27. Write two uses of rice?

28. Name any two producers of rice.

29. What is china’s rank in producing rice in Asia?

30. What is India’s rank in producing rice in Asia? 

31. What type of soil is necessary for wheat?

32. What type of climate is suitable for wheat crop?

33. What is the annual rainfall required for wheat cultivation?

34. Name the countries which produces the largest quantity of wheat in the world. 

35. Write the temperature and annual rainfall required for sugarcane production?

36. What type of crop is sugarcane?

37. What is the main raw a materials for sugar industry?

38. Name the regions of the world where sugarcane is cultivated.

39. Name the countries which produces largest quantities of sugarcane. 

40. Name the two islands in the Pacific where sugarcane is cultivated. 

41. Name the two topmost producer of sugarcane in the world.

42. Name some major tea producing countries of the world.

43. What is India’s rank in the world in tea production?

44. What is China’s rank in the world in tea production?

45. Link the following correctly: 

46. Write the required rainfall for cotton?

47. What type of soil is suitable for tea-cultivation?

48. Name the countries which produces the largest quantity of cotton in the world?

49. Where in the USA, cotton is grown inlarge area?

50. Name the region in china where cotton is grown?

51. Where, in the North- east is cotton produced?

52. What soil of the Deccan plateau are speciallyfavourable for raising cotton.

53. What climatic condition is necessary for tea plants?

B.  Short Type Question: Marks: 2/2

1. Write a brief note on agriculture?

2. Describe, in brief, permanent agri9culture.

3. What is shifting cultivation?

4. What is jhum cultivation?  

5. Write a brief note on large-scale agriculture.

6. What is commercial agriculture?

7. What is subsistence agriculture?

8. Give an account of dry farming.

9.  What is meant by wet farming?

10. Write a brief not on plantation agriculture. 

11. Write a brief note on collective farming.

12. Write a brief note on horticulture.

13. What is meant by market gardening?

14. Write about the rice production in the world. 

15. Write about the rice production in the world.

16. Write about the sugarcane production in the world. 

17. Write about the cotton production in the world.

18. Write about the tea production in the world.

19. What are the differences between Rabi-ricult

20. Write two characteristics of plantation ag-riculture.

21. When and who discovered tea plant in the forest of Assam?

22. Name two agricultural process of Japan.

23. Write short note:  

(c) Irrigation farming.

24. What are the the two types of Permanent agriculture?

C. Essay Type Questions: Marks: 4/5 

1. What is meant by agriculture?  Mention briefly the factors influencing agriculture. 

2. Explain why agricultural practice is not similar every where in the world.

3. Classify agriculture and give the basis of your classification. 

4. What is permanent agriculture? Discuss briefly its characteristics.

5. Give a brief outline of shifting cultivation. Explain how this type of agriculture degrades the environment.

6. Present a comparative picture of large-scale and small-scale agriculture.

7. What do you mean by plantation farming? Discuss its characteristics. 8. Describe briefly the relationship between urbanization and market gardening.

9. What kind of environment is required for rice cultivation? Write briefly about the geographical distribution of rice. 

10. Give an account of wheat cultivation.

11. Discuss the importance and geographical distribution of cotton farming.

12. What kind of environment is required for growing tea? Write briefly on the distribution of tea plantations.

13. What is shifting Cultivation? State the method used in it and describe its distribution on the earth?

14. Write briefly on agro-based industry. 

15. Give a brief out line of shifting cultivation. Explain how this type of agriculture degrades the environment. 

16. Discuss about migratory agriculture of North-East India.

17. What is agriculture? Discuss briefly the activities related to agriculture.