Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 5

It needs tall wet grassland and will not survive in dry forest, so its fate is tied to the Terai, and the herds of Dudhwa and Kishanpur are among the largest anywhere; the Hastinapur sanctuary protects the separate population of the Ganga plain.

Chikankari is the fine white shadow work embroidery of Lucknow, done with untwisted thread on muslin, cotton and georgette, and it carries a geographical indication tag in the name of the city.

Uttar Pradesh is divided into nine agro-climatic zones so that crop advice can follow soil, rainfall and temperature rather than district boundaries.

The Upper Ganga Canal begins at the Bhimgoda barrage at Haridwar, where the Ganga leaves the hills and still has the fall needed to drive a gravity canal.

The Agra Canal starts at the Okhla barrage on the Yamuna near Delhi and was opened in 1874.

Barley is a rabi crop of northern India, sown between October and December after the monsoon and harvested in March and April along with wheat, gram, pea, lentil and mustard; it tolerates poorer and saltier soils than wheat, which is why it is grown in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan…

The city grew in the nineteenth century as the cotton and woollen mill town of the Ganga plain, with army supply orders behind it, and the tanneries of Jajmau grew beside the mills.

The Hastinapur wildlife sanctuary stretches along the Ganga across Meerut, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar, Amroha, Hapur and Ghaziabad, which makes it the largest sanctuary of the state and one that spans the most districts; it protects the swamp deer of the Ganga plain and includes the Haiderpur wetland, a Ramsar site.

Uttar Pradesh grows most of the Indian mint crop, concentrated in Barabanki, Rampur, Badaun, Sambhal and the neighbouring districts, and the menthol and mint oil distilled from it go largely to export, which has made mint a cash crop of the zaid and early kharif season there.

The Rihand dam in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh holds back the Rihand river, a tributary of the Sone, and its reservoir, named Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar after the state's first chief minister, is the largest man-made lake in India by surface area.

The dam was built at Pipri in Sonbhadra district across the Rihand, a tributary of the Son, and the lake behind it was named Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar after the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Bhur is the raised sandy soil of the upper doab in districts such as Meerut, Bulandshahr and Aligarh, blown into low ridges by the wind, poor in moisture and organic matter, and fit for bajra, barley and, where irrigation reaches, for sugarcane.

The scheme was announced on Uttar Pradesh Day, 24 January 2018, and chose one traditional product for each district so that help with design, credit, common facility centres, packaging and marketing could be concentrated instead of scattered.

The bhabhar is the narrow belt of coarse gravel, pebbles and boulders laid down by hill streams where they leave the Shivalik hills.

The Rihand rises on the Chhattisgarh plateau, flows north through the hills of the south east and joins the Son, and the dam at Pipri in Sonbhadra district stands across it.

Firozabad has made glass bangles, chandeliers and glassware for generations and is called the bangle city of India.

The town has distilled flower oils in copper stills for centuries and is called the perfume capital of India, its ittar being carried in leather bottles and matured through the seasons.

The Narora Atomic Power Station stands at Narora on the Ganga in Bulandshahr district and is the only nuclear station in Uttar Pradesh.

The Mathura refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation is the only refinery in the state and was set up to serve the demand of the north western plains, with crude reaching it by pipeline.

The district lies in the extreme south east, where the Singrauli coalfield, the Rihand reservoir and the hills meet.