Haryana GK Questions 2026

The Hariana is the indigenous cattle breed of the Rohtak, Hisar, Jind and Gurugram tract, a dual purpose animal that gives milk and whose bullocks were once the standard draught animal of the north western plains.

Vita is the brand of the Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation, which collects milk from village societies and sells milk, ghee, butter, paneer and sweets under that name.

Decades of the paddy and wheat rotation have pushed the water table down sharply in central Haryana, and many blocks are classed as over exploited.

This is the drier half of Haryana, where rainfall is low, summers are hot and the soil is light, and cotton suits those conditions better than paddy does.

The barrage stands on the Yamuna in Yamunanagar district, where the river enters the plains, and it feeds the Western Yamuna Canal of Haryana on one bank and the Eastern Yamuna Canal of Uttar Pradesh on the other.

The Murrah is a jet black buffalo with short tightly curled horns, bred in Rohtak, Jind, Hisar and the neighbouring districts.

The National Dairy Research Institute, a deemed university under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, has its main campus at Karnal and works on dairy cattle and buffalo breeding, milk processing and dairy technology.

The agricultural university of Haryana was set up at Hisar soon after the state was formed and was later named after Chaudhary Charan Singh.

The first high yielding varieties available to Indian farmers were dwarf wheats, and they were planted in the irrigated north western plains where water and fertiliser could be supplied on time.

He was the geneticist who brought the Mexican dwarf wheat to India, worked with Indian breeders to adapt it, and persuaded the government and the farmers to take it up, so he is called the father of the Green Revolution in India.

The dwarf wheat varieties Lerma Rojo and Sonora 64 were bred in Mexico at the research programme where Norman Borlaug worked, and seed of these varieties was imported into India in the mid nineteen sixties.

Haryana was carved out of the Hindi speaking districts of the former state of Punjab on that day, and the date is observed every year as Haryana Day.

Abubshahar Wildlife Sanctuary lies in Sirsa district in the dry south-western corner of Haryana, in the belt through which the seasonal Ghaggar passes.

This is the law under which state governments declare national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, conservation reserves and community reserves, and under which species are listed in schedules for protection.

Kalesar in Yamunanagar district is the one place in Haryana with a genuine sal forest, a Shivalik type of dry deciduous forest mixed with khair, shisham, sain and semul, with chir pine on the higher slopes.

The crocodile breeding centre at Bhor Saidan lies in Kurukshetra district and breeds the marsh crocodile, the mugger. Kurukshetra also holds the Chhilchhila Wildlife Sanctuary, a wetland for migratory birds, and the deer and blackbuck enclosures at Pipli, so the district appears more than once in this chapter.

The blackbuck is the state animal of Haryana and survives in the open scrub and grassland of Sirsa, Hisar, Bhiwani and Rewari, where sanctuaries such as Abubshahar and Nahar protect it, helped in the south-west by the Bishnoi tradition of protecting wildlife.

Bir Shikargah Wildlife Sanctuary lies in the Shivalik tract of Panchkula district. The name itself explains its origin: a bir is an enclosed woodlot and shikargah means a hunting ground, so the area was a hunting preserve of the princely period that was later turned into a protected area.

It lies in Kaithal district and is the largest wildlife sanctuary in Haryana by area, a plantation and scrub tract along the old course associated with the Saraswati, created to restore tree cover and wildlife on land that had little of either.

The Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore in Panchkula district was India's first centre for breeding vultures in captivity, run by the Haryana forest department with the Bombay Natural History Society.