UPSC GK Questions 2026

Although the Indira Gandhi Canal is the most celebrated irrigation work in Rajasthan, canal command covers only a part of the state, mainly the north-west and the Chambal and Mahi tracts.

Sojat town in Pali district is the henna capital of India. The shrub needs a hot dry climate and poor soil, both of which the tract offers, and the leaves are dried and powdered in Sojat before being sold across the country and exported.

The Indira Gandhi Canal, first called the Rajasthan Canal, starts at Harike in Punjab, where the Beas joins the Sutlej, and carries that water south-west through a feeder and then a main canal into Hanumangarh, Sri Ganganagar, Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Barmer.

Isabgol, the psyllium whose husk is used as a laxative and in medicines, is sown in the cool months after the monsoon and harvested in spring, which makes it a rabi crop.

Rajasthan declared the camel its state animal in 2014, a decision meant to arrest the fall in camel numbers as tractors replaced camel carts and grazing land shrank.

The Jakhrana goat takes its name from the village of Jakhrana in Alwar district of eastern Rajasthan.

The Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, an institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, works at Avikanagar in Tonk district on sheep and rabbit breeding, wool quality and grazing management.

The Chokla sheep is reared in Churu, Sikar and Jhunjhunu in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan.

The district lies in the extreme north-west, where the Gang Canal, opened in the colonial period, and later the Indira Gandhi Canal brought Sutlej and Beas water into country that had been desert.

Mustard is the great rabi oilseed of Rajasthan, sown in October and November across Bharatpur, Alwar, Sawai Madhopur, Tonk and the canal districts of the north-west, and the state harvests more of it than any other.

Kharif crops are sown with the arrival of the south west monsoon in June and July and harvested in September and October, so they grow through the hottest and wettest months of the year.

Under this scheme the government does not buy and store the crop. The farmer sells in the regulated market as usual, and if the price received is below the price the government has declared for that crop, the gap is paid into the farmer's bank account.

The Malwa plateau and the Narmada valley lie on the Deccan lava flows, and the weathering of that basalt produced the deep clayey black soil called regur.

Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya was established at Jabalpur in the nineteen sixties as the agricultural university for the whole state and still runs colleges and research stations across the eastern and central districts.

Burhanpur in the Nimar plain is the banana district of Madhya Pradesh. The warm climate, the deep soil of the Tapti valley and assured irrigation allow a long growing season, and the district sends bananas to markets in north India and exports a part of the crop.

The Nimar plain along the lower Narmada, covering Khargone, Khandwa, Barwani and Burhanpur, has deep black cotton soil and a warm dry growing season, the two conditions cotton needs.

Balaghat lies in the wet south eastern corner of the state, where rainfall is high and red and yellow soils suit paddy, and the district has long grown Chinnor, a short grained aromatic rice valued for its fragrance after cooking.

The Kadaknath is a black fleshed fowl reared by tribal families in Jhabua and the neighbouring districts of western Madhya Pradesh.

Opium may be grown in India only under a licence from the Central Bureau of Narcotics, and the permitted tract of Madhya Pradesh lies in these western Malwa districts, continuing across the border into Chittorgarh and Pratapgarh in Rajasthan.

This central belt, lying on the deep black soil of the Narmada valley and its Malwa fringe, grows the hard amber grained wheat known as Sharbati.