This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Overview > General Agriculture – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Agriculture Quiz 11 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Lima beans were domesticated in A) Southeast Asia. B) Southwest Asia. C) Ethiopia. D) Northern China. E) Latin America. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Latin America. 2. 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. 3. Who is called father of Green REVOLUTION A) Norman Borlaug. B) Virender Lal Chopra. C) Daisaku Ikeda. D) M. S. Swaminathan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) M. S. Swaminathan. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. Growing of crops and rearing of animals is known as A) Agriculture. B) Horticulture. C) Namadism. D) Mining. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agriculture. 8. The largest tea producing state of India is A) Karnataka. B) Assam. C) Andhra Pradesh. D) Arunachal Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assam. 9. Raising and cultivating fish and shellfish in controlled bodies of water is known as A) Fish Farms. B) Ocean Farms. C) Aquaculture. D) Commercial Fisheries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aquaculture. 10. Mobile genetic elements A) Therapeutics. B) Transposons. C) Telophase. D) Thyllakoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transposons. 11. 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) Intensive Subsistence. C) Shifting Cultivation. D) Plantation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shifting Cultivation. 12. Growing ..... is a type of plantation. A) Rice. B) Wheat. C) Coffee. D) Maize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coffee. 13. Jhumming is practised in ..... India. A) North-East. B) South. C) West. D) South-west. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) North-East. 14. After corn, what is the most important crop in the U.S. mixed commercial farming region? A) Wheat. B) Soybeans. C) Barley. D) Sorghum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soybeans. 15. Which of the following is an annual crop? A) Jute. B) Cucumber. C) Rice. D) Sugarcane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sugarcane. 16. Centigrade temperature, medium loam soil and ample rainfall are ideal for the growth of A) Wheat. B) Rice. C) Sugar cane. D) Cotton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rice. 17. To increase crop yield, rice farmers in China commonly practice: A) Double cropping. B) Transhumance. C) Threshing. D) Shifting cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Double cropping. 18. The term swidden refers to a plot of land formed by what type of agriculture? A) Transhumance. B) Truck farmin. C) Open-lot systems. D) Double cropping. E) Slash and burn. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Slash and burn. 19. Considering the importance of agriculture in India, which of the following were given priority for improving Indian agriculture? A) Establishment of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). B) Development in the field of meteorology and weather forecast. C) Establishing agricultural universities, veterinary services and animal breeding centres. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. Biotechnology, or the process of using living organisms to produce or change a plant or animal product, is a part of which agricultural revolution? A) First agricultural revolution. B) Second agricultural revolution. C) Third agricultural revolution. D) Open-lot system. E) Plantation agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third agricultural revolution. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeneral Agriculture Quiz 1General Agriculture Quiz 2General Agriculture Quiz 3General Agriculture Quiz 4General Agriculture Quiz 5General Agriculture Quiz 6General Agriculture Quiz 7General Agriculture Quiz 8General Agriculture Quiz 9General Agriculture Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books