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Types of Agriculture

48 MCQ questions with answers and explanations · page 2 of 2

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Q26. In which type of agriculture, large amounts of capital and labour are used on each unit of land to obtain maximum production of crops?

  1. Asubsistence agriculture
  2. Bintensive farming
  3. Cextensive agriculture
  4. Dplantation agriculture
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Answer: B) intensive farming

Q27. Agriculture done by mechanical methods on large sized farms is called-

  1. Aintensive farming
  2. Bintensive subsistence agriculture
  3. Cextensive agriculture
  4. Dplantation agriculture
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Answer: C) extensive agriculture

Q28. The cultivation of vegetables, fruits and flowers done on a commercial scale, for which trucks are used extensively for transportation, is called -

  1. Amarket farming
  2. Btruck forming
  3. CDairy Farming
  4. Dhydroponics
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Answer: B) truck forming

Q29. The steppe of the former Soviet Union, the central and western plains of the United States, the prairie region of Canada, the Pampas region of Argentina and the Downs region of Australia are famous for which type of agriculture?

  1. Aintensive subsistence agriculture
  2. Bintensive farming
  3. Cextensive agriculture
  4. Dplantation agriculture
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Answer: C) extensive agriculture

Q30. Which one of the following is another name for truck farming?

  1. Asericulture
  2. Bviticulture
  3. CFruit farming
  4. DMarketing Horticulture
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Answer: D) Marketing Horticulture

Q31. Intensive agriculture is not related to-

  1. AVegetable farming in the Netherlands
  2. BFruit farming in California
  3. CRice cultivation in Southeast Asia
  4. DWheat farming in Canada
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Answer: D) Wheat farming in Canada

Q32. Which of the following elements is not included in extensive agriculture?

  1. AHigher production per hectare
  2. Bhigher production per capita
  3. CLarge land area per farm
  4. DHigher income per farm
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Answer: B) higher production per capita

Q33. Which type of agriculture is done in the monsoon climate areas of the Asian continent and where there is a very high population density?

  1. Aintensive farming
  2. Bextensive agriculture
  3. Cmixed farming
  4. Dintensive subsistence agriculture
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Answer: D) intensive subsistence agriculture

Q34. What is the rearing of silkworms on a commercial scale for the production of silk called?

  1. Asilviculture
  2. BSericulture
  3. CApiculture
  4. DViticulture
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Answer: B) Sericulture

Q35. What is the process of production of marine organisms for commercial purposes called?

  1. APC culture
  2. BApiculture
  3. CMariculture
  4. DHorticulture
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Answer: C) Mariculture

Q36. What is the commercial fish farming called?

  1. AViticulture
  2. BMariculture
  3. CSericulture
  4. DPC culture
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Answer: D) PC culture

Q37. What is the activity related to conservation and development of forests called?

  1. AApiculture
  2. Bsilviculture
  3. CHorticulture
  4. Dolericulture
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Answer: B) silviculture

Q38. What is the commercial cultivation of flowers called?

  1. Afloriculture
  2. BHorticulture
  3. CApiculture
  4. DVegeculture
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Answer: A) floriculture

Q39. The production of different types of fruits done on commercial scale is called-

  1. AApiculture
  2. BHorticulture
  3. CMariculture
  4. Dsilviculture
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Answer: B) Horticulture

Q40. The work of beekeeping or beekeeping done for honey production on commercial scale is called -

  1. AViticulture
  2. BPC culture
  3. CMariculture
  4. DApiculture
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Answer: D) Apiculture

Q41. Commercial cultivation of vegetables spread on the ground is called -

  1. AVegeculture
  2. Bolericulture
  3. CArboriculture
  4. DApiculture
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Answer: B) olericulture

Q42. Sericulture is related to-

  1. Afrom lakh
  2. Bfrom the silkworm
  3. Cfrom the honey bee
  4. Dfrom fish
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Answer: B) from the silkworm

Q43. What is produced in mariculture?

  1. Aof trees and bushes
  2. Bof flowers
  3. Cof marine creatures
  4. Dof bees
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Answer: C) of marine creatures

Q44. Where is terrace farming done?

  1. Aon the slopes of the mountains
  2. Bon dry areas
  3. Con the rooftops
  4. Don the top of the mountains
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Answer: A) on the slopes of the mountains

Q45. Where is shifting cultivation done?

  1. ANortheast India
  2. BSouth-West India
  3. CSouth East India
  4. DA. India
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Answer: A) Northeast India

Q46. What is 'intensive farming' related to?

  1. Ayield from intensive use of labour
  2. Byield due to intensive use of fertilizer
  3. CIncreasing yields by intensively using existing land
  4. DIncreasing yields by using large-scale imported inputs
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Answer: C) Increasing yields by intensively using existing land

Q47. Which one of the following is not a type of commercial agriculture?

  1. ADairy farming
  2. Bgrain farming
  3. Canimal husbandry
  4. DIntensive subsistence agriculture
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Answer: D) Intensive subsistence agriculture

Q48. In which of the following countries is intensive subsistence agriculture not mainly practiced?

  1. AIndia
  2. BJapan
  3. CCanada
  4. DIndonesia
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Answer: C) Canada

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