Geography Quiz: Livestock, Fisheries and Agricultural Revolutions

The blue revolution is the name given to the rapid rise in fish output through aquaculture and improved marine fishing, which in India followed the spread of induced breeding of carp, the work of fish farmers development agencies and later a dedicated central scheme for fisheries.

Operation Flood was launched by the National Dairy Development Board in 1970 to build a national milk grid on the Anand pattern of cooperatives, and it ran in three phases until 1996, by which time village societies in most states were selling milk to the big cities.

He organised the milk producers of the Kaira district into the cooperative known by the brand Amul, designed the three tier Anand pattern, headed the National Dairy Development Board and led Operation Flood, which is why the growth of Indian dairying is credited to him.

Murrah, from the Rohtak and Hisar belt of Haryana, is the best known milk buffalo of India, recognised by its tightly curled horns and heavy milk yield, and it has been used to improve buffalo stock in many states and abroad.

This goat of the cold Changthang plateau grows a very fine soft undercoat in winter, and that fibre, combed out in spring, is the pashmina from which Kashmiri shawls are woven.

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, which studies the stocks, breeding and farming of sea fish along the Indian coast, has its headquarters at Kochi in Kerala.

Apiculture is bee keeping for honey and beeswax, and it is counted among the allied activities because it needs almost no land and raises the yield of nearby crops through pollination.

Jute is called the golden fibre for the colour of its retted fibre, so the programme to raise its output and improve its processing is named the golden fibre revolution, and it matters most in West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.

The correct answer is C, because the gains were not spread evenly: they were concentrated in the assured irrigation belt of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, and later in parts of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, while the rain fed districts of central and eastern India gained far less.

Kadaknath is a poultry breed of the Jhabua and Dhar region of western Madhya Pradesh, reared by tribal households, and its black flesh, bones and blood make it distinctive enough to have been given a geographical indication tag.