This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Overview > General > General Agriculture – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Agriculture Quiz 7 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Has increased its production by 20% per year for the last twenty years. A) Aquaculture. B) Chicken production. C) Viticulture. D) Organic agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organic agriculture. 2. 'Slash and burn' agriculture is a- A) Shifting agriculture. B) Intensive agriculture. C) Commercial agriculture. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shifting agriculture. 3. Which of the following is NOT responsible for low yield (unhealthy crops)? A) Droughts. B) Inappropriate temperature. C) Deforestation. D) Soil erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deforestation. 4. Rubber is an important industrial raw material. It is mainly grown in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andaman and Nicobar islands and Garo hills of ..... A) Sikkim. B) Assam. C) Meghalaya. D) West Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meghalaya. 5. Which type of agriculture will benefit the GDP of Pakistan? A) Subsistence. B) Commercial. C) Small scale. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commercial. 6. Both sense and antisense RNA together form A) CRNA. B) DsRNA. C) SiRNA. D) SsRNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DsRNA. 7. Cotton grows well on A) Black and alluvial soil. B) Red and alluvial soil. C) Laterite soil. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Black and alluvial soil. 8. ..... is a harvest festival celebrated mostly in Punjab in India. A) Pongal. B) Baisakhi. C) Christmas. D) Makar Sankranti. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baisakhi. 9. What name is given to the soil conservation technique used on steep slopes? A) Terracing. B) Crop Rotation/ Shifting. C) Soil Creep. D) Terrain Cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Terracing. 10. Which one of these is NOT a fiber used to make clothing? A) Cotton. B) Flax and Hemp. C) Silk. D) Pig Hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pig Hair. 11. The first form of agriculture was A) Seed agriculture. B) Plantation agriculture. C) Vegetative planting. D) Domesticating cattle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vegetative planting. 12. A principal practice of sustainable agriculture is A) Agribusiness-oriented land management. B) A "green revolution" in the use of chemicals. C) The preference for livestock over crops. D) Careful land management. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Careful land management. 13. By which name is specialised cultivation of fruits and vegetables known? A) Sericulture. B) Horticulture. C) Pisiculture. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horticulture. 14. An argument in favour of food biotechnology is that it A) Provides foods that cure disease. B) Provides more food to feed a growing population. C) Provides a cash crop for low income nations. D) Biotech foods are not controversial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Provides more food to feed a growing population. 15. Why is double-cropping or even triple-cropping important? A) It allows subsistence farmers to produce more incomes from selling their products. B) It provides consumers with more choices of foods to eat. C) It allows farmers to rotate crops without harming the soil. D) It allows farmers to meet the demands of the ever-increasing population. E) It gives producers the profit margins to meet the demands of investors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It allows farmers to meet the demands of the ever-increasing population. 16. In India, wheat is grown during ..... season. A) Autumn. B) Summer. C) Spring. D) Winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Winter. 17. The primary factor in von Thnen's model for choosing commercial farm products is A) Land price. B) Market location. C) Labor cost. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Market location. 18. ..... is a primary activity. A) Pesticide preparation. B) Agriculture. C) Oil refining. D) Food processing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agriculture. 19. The effects of biotechnology are A) Positive because it allows for much greater agricultural yields. B) Limited because its expense prevents its accessibility to farmers in developing countries. C) Are unknown because not enough research has been conducted on them. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. Lima beans were domesticated in A) Southwest Asia. B) Northern China. C) Southeast Asia. D) Latin America. E) Ethiopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Latin America. 21. Increasing global food production by expanding the amount of land under cultivation is limited by the fact that A) Technology is lacking in many less developed countries. B) Most of the world's arable land is already under cultivation. C) Few young people want to be farmers. D) Governments are unwilling to give up public lands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Most of the world's arable land is already under cultivation. 22. Who is called father of Green REVOLUTION A) Virender Lal Chopra. B) Norman Borlaug. C) M. S. Swaminathan. D) Daisaku Ikeda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) M. S. Swaminathan. 23. Which type of soil is good for growing wheat? A) Desert. B) Loamy. C) Sandy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loamy. 24. What is the definition of a commodity? A) The services that are provided to make farming possible. B) The people who work in agriculture. C) Off brand Velveeta cheese. D) Products of Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Products of Agriculture. 25. Physical factors are: A) Relief, soil, better seeds, irrigation. B) Temperature, rainfall, fertilizers, Agriculture Implements. C) Temperature, relief, soil, rainfall. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temperature, relief, soil, rainfall. 26. Growing of crops and rearing of animals is known as A) Namadism. B) Horticulture. C) Mining. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agriculture. 27. The largest tea producing state of India is A) Karnataka. B) Assam. C) Andhra Pradesh. D) Arunachal Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assam. 28. Raising and cultivating fish and shellfish in controlled bodies of water is known as A) Commercial Fisheries. B) Aquaculture. C) Fish Farms. D) Ocean Farms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aquaculture. 29. Mobile genetic elements A) Telophase. B) Thyllakoid. C) Transposons. D) Therapeutics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transposons. 30. A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period A) Pastoral Nomadism. B) Shifting Cultivation. C) Intensive Subsistence. D) Plantation. 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