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MCQ for Class 12 Geography Chapter 5 Land Resources and Agriculture
Question 1.
Which type of farming is known as Slash and Burn to farm?
(A) Primitive subsistence
(B) Intensive subsistence
(C) Plantation
(D) Commerical
Answer: (A) Primitive subsistence
Question 2.
India is the second-largest producer of which crop in the world?
(A) Tea
(B) Coffee
(C) Rice
(D) Cotton
Answer: (C) Rice
Question 3.
Which state is the largest producer of Jowar in India?
(A) Punjab
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Karnataka
(D) Rajasthan
Answer: (B) Maharashtra
Question 4.
India is the leading producer of which crop in the world?
(A) Jute
(B) Rice
(C) Tea
(D) Coffee
Answer: (C) Tea
Question 5.
Which crop was introduced in Baba Budan Hills?
(A) Tea
(B) Coffee
(C) Rice
(D) Cotton
Answer: (B) Coffee
Question 6.
Which is known as golden fiber?
(A) Cotton
(B) Silk
(C) Jute
(D) Wool
Answer: (C) Jute
Question 7.
Which one of the following is a rabi crop?
(A) Rice
(B) Millets
(C) Gram
(D) Cotton
Answer: (C) Gram
Question 8.
Which one of the following is a leguminous crop?
(A) Pulses
(B) Millets
(C) Jowar
(D) Sesamum
Answer: (A) Pulses
Question 9.
Which one of the following price is announced by the government in support of a crop?
(A) Maximum support price
(B) Minimum support price
(C) Moderate support price
(D) Influential support price
Answer: (B) Minimum support price
Question 10.
Cotton needs a frost-free period of
(A) 100 days
(B) 150 days
(C) 210 days
(D) 250 days
Answer: (C) 210 days
Question 11.
What is the total production of food grains in India?
(A) 70 million tonnes
(B) 100 million tonnes
(C) 150 million tonnes
(D) 250 million tonnes
Answer: (D) 250 million tonnes
Question 12.
Which state is the largest wheat producing state?
(A) Punjab
(B) Haryana
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Rajasthan
Answer: (C) Uttar Pradesh
Question 13.
In which season Kharif crops are grown?
(A) Winter
(B) Summer
(C) Spring
(D) Autumn
Answer: (B) Summer
Question 14.
The net area sown in India is
(A) 77%
(B) 67%
(C) 45%
(D) 43%
Answer: (D) 43%
Question 15.
In India, cereals occupy how much-cropped area?
(A) 34%
(B) 44%
(C) 54%
(D) 64%
Answer: (C) 54%
Question 16.
Which one of the following is NOT a land-use category?
(A) Fallow land
(B) Marginal land
(C) Net Area Sown
(D) Culturable Wasteland
Answer: (B) Marginal land
Question 17.
Which one of the following is the main reason due to which share of the forest has shown an increase in the last forty years?
(A) Extensive and efficient efforts of afforestation
(B) Increase in community forest land
(C) Increase in the notified area allocated for forest growth
(D) Better peoples participation in managing forest area
Answer: (C) Increase in the notified area allocated for forest growth
Question 18.
Which one of the following is the main form of degradation in irrigated areas?
(A) Gully erosion
(B) Wind erosion
(C) Salinisation of soils
(D) Siltation of land
Answer: (C) Salinisation of soils
Question 19.
Which one of the following crops is not cultivated under dryland farming?
(A) Ragi
(B) Jowar
(C) Groundnut
(D) Sugarcane
Answer: (D) Sugarcane
Question 20.
In which of the following group of countries of the world, HYVs of wheat and rice were developed?
(A) Japan and Australia
(B) The U.S.A. and Japan
(C) Mexico and the Philippines
(D) Mexico and Singapore
Answer: (C) Mexico and the Philippines