Dry farming is generally practised in regions where the annual rainfall is
- A.Below about 75 cm
- B.Between 100 cm and 150 cm
- C.Above 200 cm
- D.Above 150 cm
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, below about seventy-five centimetres. Dry farming, also called dryland farming, is the practice of raising crops without irrigation in areas of low and uncertain rainfall, and the conventional limit used in Indian geography is an annual rainfall of about seventy-five centimetres. Moisture is conserved by keeping land fallow in alternate years, by mulching, by deep ploughing and by contour bunding, and the crops chosen are hardy and short-lived, such as jowar, bajra, ragi, gram and oilseeds. B, C and D are wrong because rainfall of a hundred centimetres and above supports wet farming: rice, jute and sugarcane in the eastern and coastal regions, and in the heaviest rainfall belts plantation crops such as tea, coffee and rubber. Rajasthan, the interior Deccan, parts of Gujarat and the rain-shadow districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka are the main dry farming tracts of India.
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Practice Questions
View allThe branch of horticulture which deals with the production, storage, processing and marketing of vegetables is called ______.
- A.olericulture
- B.agronomy
- C.pomology
- D.apiculture
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Olericulture is the branch of horticulture that deals with vegetables, covering their production in the field, their storage, their processing and their marketing, and it is the branch on which market gardening and truck farming rest.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following comes in the category of plantation crop?
- A.Potato
- B.Cucumber
- C.Coffee
- D.Millet
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A plantation crop is a single cash crop grown on a large estate with heavy capital, hired labour and processing of the produce on or near the estate, and coffee, grown in the hills of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, is a classic example along with tea, rubber and sugarcane.
Read the full explanation →Shifting cultivation is known as 'Milpa' in which of the following regions?
- A.Indonesia and Malaysia
- B.Mexico and Central America
- C.Brazil
- D.Sri Lanka
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Milpa is the local name given to the slash-and-burn system of the Mexican and Central American forests, where maize, beans and squash are grown together on a burnt forest clearing for a few seasons.
Read the full explanation →Jhum cultivation is practised mainly in which part of India?
- A.The north-eastern states
- B.The Punjab plains
- C.The Thar desert
- D.The Deccan lava plateau
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Jhum, also written jhoom, is the local name of shifting cultivation in Assam and the hill states of the north-east, where a forest patch on a slope is cleared, burnt and cropped for two or three years before being left fallow.
Read the full explanation →'Podu' is the local name of shifting cultivation in which states?
- A.Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
- B.Andhra Pradesh and Odisha
- C.Kerala and Karnataka
- D.Jharkhand and Bihar
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The correct answer is B, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, where the hill communities of the Eastern Ghats call shifting cultivation podu.
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