Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 5

Soybean spread across the black soil of the Malwa plateau and the Narmada valley from the nineteen seventies and now covers more area in Madhya Pradesh than anywhere else in the country, which is why the state is nicknamed the soya state.

The lava flows that spread over central and western India at the end of the Cretaceous left thick sheets of basalt, and when basalt weathers in a monsoon climate it yields a fine clay rich in iron, lime and magnesium, which is exactly the black soil of Malwa, the Narmada…

Coal, petroleum and natural gas were formed over millions of years from buried plant and animal remains, so once a seam or a field is worked out it is not replaced in any human timescale.

Kuno, in Sheopur district on the Kuno river, received the cheetahs flown in from Namibia in September 2022 under Project Cheetah, the first intercontinental translocation of a large carnivore; the area had been cleared and prepared years earlier as a second home for the Asiatic lions of Gir, which gave…

Gram, also called chana, is the biggest rabi pulse of the country and Madhya Pradesh grows more of it than any other state, mostly without irrigation, on the moisture that black soil holds after the monsoon.

Pachmarhi lies in the Mahadeo hills of the Satpura in Narmadapuram district, at a height of about a thousand metres, and is the only hill station in Madhya Pradesh.

Conventional sources are those in long use before modern technology offered alternatives, that is coal, petroleum, natural gas, firewood, cattle dung cake and water power.

Chhattisgarh was created out of the eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 2000 under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.

This central belt, lying on the deep black soil of the Narmada valley and its Malwa fringe, grows the hard amber grained wheat known as Sharbati.

The Sardar Sarovar is the terminal dam of the Narmada valley scheme, in Gujarat, and its reservoir submerges villages upstream in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

By status of development resources are grouped as potential resources, found in a region but not yet used; developed resources, surveyed and in use; stock, which exists but cannot be used for want of technology; and reserves, the part of the stock that can be drawn on in future with…

There the old crystalline rocks, gneiss and granite, lie at the surface, and the iron released by their weathering gives the soil its red colour, turning yellow where the iron is hydrated by heavier rain.

Opium may be grown in India only under a licence from the Central Bureau of Narcotics, and the permitted tract of Madhya Pradesh lies in these western Malwa districts, continuing across the border into Chittorgarh and Pratapgarh in Rajasthan.

Bandhavgarh National Park lies in Umaria district around the old Bandhavgarh fort, which stands on a hill inside the park and once belonged to the rulers of Rewa.

Panna is the only place in India where diamonds are mined in any quantity.

The trough between the Vindhya and the Satpura sank along two roughly parallel faults, leaving the land on either side standing up as block mountains.

The Kadaknath is a black fleshed fowl reared by tribal families in Jhabua and the neighbouring districts of western Madhya Pradesh.

Malanjkhand in Balaghat district is the largest copper ore deposit worked in India, mined and concentrated on the spot by Hindustan Copper, and the ore body lies in the ancient rocks of the Maikal range.

Balaghat lies in the wet south eastern corner of the state, where rainfall is high and red and yellow soils suit paddy, and the district has long grown Chinnor, a short grained aromatic rice valued for its fragrance after cooking.

The Singrauli field lies in the Gondwana basin of the east of the state and extends across the border into Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh.