Haryana forms part of which agro-climatic region of India?
- A.Upper Gangetic Plains region
- B.Trans-Gangetic Plains region
- C.Western Dry region
- D.Middle Gangetic Plains region
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Trans-Gangetic Plains region. In the national division of the country into agro-climatic regions, the Trans-Gangetic Plains region covers Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh and the Ganganagar tract of Rajasthan. It is the wheat and rice region of assured canal and tubewell irrigation, and it is the region in which the Green Revolution went furthest.
Option A, the Upper Gangetic Plains region, covers the western and central parts of Uttar Pradesh, east of Haryana. Option C, the Western Dry region, is the arid part of Rajasthan where rainfall is far lower and pearl millet and pulses dominate; although south-western Haryana resembles it, the state is not placed there. Option D, the Middle Gangetic Plains region, covers eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Within Haryana itself, planners use two zones: a north-eastern rice and wheat zone and a south-western cotton, bajra and mustard zone.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich hot and dry westerly wind blows over Haryana in May and June?
- A.Kalbaisakhi
- B.Loo
- C.Mango shower
- D.Norwester
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The loo is the hot, dry wind that blows from the west and north-west over the plains of Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh in May and June.
Read the full explanation →Rainfall in Haryana decreases in which direction?
- A.From south-west to north-east
- B.From north-east to south-west
- C.From north to south evenly
- D.From east to west only along the Yamuna
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The Shivalik districts of Panchkula, Ambala and Yamunanagar in the north-east catch the first of the monsoon against the foothills and receive the heaviest rain of the state, while the south-western districts of Sirsa, Bhiwani and Mahendragarh lie towards the dry Thar margin and receive the least.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Haryana normally receives the highest annual rainfall?
- A.Sirsa
- B.Bhiwani
- C.Panchkula
- D.Mahendragarh
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Panchkula lies in the Shivalik foothills at the north-eastern corner of the state.
Read the full explanation →In Haryana, the loamy and most fertile soil is known locally by which name?
- A.Bhur
- B.Dakar
- C.Rausli
- D.Kallar
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Rausli is the loam of the central Haryana plain, a balanced mixture of sand, silt and clay.
Read the full explanation →The sandy soil of south-western Haryana is locally called:
- A.Bhur
- B.Rausli
- C.Dhankar
- D.Kandi
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Bhur is the light, loose, sandy soil found in Sirsa, Hisar, Bhiwani and Mahendragarh, where Haryana shades into the sandy tract of Rajasthan.
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