Mediterranean agriculture is particularly famous for which activity?
- A.Viticulture
- B.Dairy farming
- C.Shifting cultivation
- D.Commercial grain farming
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, viticulture, the cultivation of grapes. The Mediterranean climate, with its hot dry summer and mild wet winter, suits the vine better than almost any other region, and the lands around the Mediterranean sea, together with California, central Chile, the Cape region of South Africa and parts of southern Australia, are the world's great wine-producing areas; citrus fruits, olives and figs are the other specialities. B is wrong because dairy farming belongs to the cool temperate lands of north-western Europe and the north-eastern United States, near large urban markets. C is wrong because shifting cultivation belongs to the tropical forests. D is wrong because commercial grain farming belongs to the temperate grasslands. The region's long dry summer also forces the vine and the olive to send roots deep, which is why these crops survive there without irrigation while cereals must be sown in the wet winter.
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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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