Uttar Pradesh is the largest producer in India of which of the following crops?
- A.Cotton
- B.Sugarcane
- C.Coffee
- D.Rubber
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, sugarcane. The fertile plain of western Uttar Pradesh, watered by canals and tube wells, carries the densest sugarcane tract in the country, and the state leads India both in cane grown and in sugar produced, with mills concentrated in Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Bijnor. Option A is wrong because cotton is a crop of the black soil belt and Gujarat and Maharashtra lead in it; Uttar Pradesh grows almost none. Option C is wrong because coffee needs the shaded hill slopes of the Western Ghats and is grown chiefly in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Option D is wrong because rubber requires a hot and very wet climate and is grown mainly in Kerala. Remember that the state also leads in wheat, in foodgrains taken together, in potato and in milk.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich city of Uttar Pradesh is known as the Manchester of the East for its textile and leather industry?
- A.Lucknow
- B.Varanasi
- C.Kanpur
- D.Agra
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Mills set up on the bank of the Ganga from the middle of the nineteenth century made Kanpur the first great industrial city of northern India, first in cotton textiles and army supplies and then in leather and tanning, and the nickname followed from the comparison with the mill town…
Read the full explanation →Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh is famous for the manufacture of
- A.Brassware
- B.Glass bangles
- C.Locks
- D.Carpets
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Firozabad has been the centre of the Indian glass industry for more than a century, and its furnaces turn out bangles, chandeliers and glassware that are sold across the country; the trade is also the district product under the One District One Product programme.
Read the full explanation →The One District One Product programme of Uttar Pradesh was launched in which year?
- A.2012
- B.2015
- C.2018
- D.2021
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The state government launched the programme in January 2018, giving every district a flagship traditional product and offering its artisans and small units credit, training, common facilities and marketing support, and the idea was later taken up more widely at the national level.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a node of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor?
- A.Jhansi
- B.Chitrakoot
- C.Varanasi
- D.Aligarh
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The corridor announced for the state has six nodes, at Lucknow, Kanpur, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Aligarh and Agra, and Varanasi, although a major city of the state, is not among them.
Read the full explanation →The Purvanchal Expressway of Uttar Pradesh connects Lucknow with
- A.Ghazipur
- B.Etawah
- C.Agra
- D.Meerut
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The Purvanchal Expressway runs east from the Lucknow district to Ghazipur, passing through the eastern districts of the state, and it was built to open up a region that had little fast road connection before.
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