Q60. Which crop is the principal commercial crop of Uttar Pradesh?
[UPPSC Main Examination, 2017]
(A) Jute
(B) Sugarcane
(C) Cotton
(D) Oilseeds
Answer: (B) Sugarcane
Explanation: Sugarcane plays a key role in Uttar Pradesh agricultural income and supplies its sugar-processing industry. Its concentration depends on irrigation, warm growing temperatures and nearby mills capable of processing harvested cane promptly.
Q59. Which district in West Bengal had the greatest share of its area classified as net sown in the referenced data?
[WBCS Main Examination (West Bengal Geography), 2017]
(A) Purba Medinipur
(B) Malda
(C) Bardhaman
(D) Uttar Dinajpur
Answer: (A) Purba Medinipur
Explanation: Purba Medinipur was the stated answer for net-sown-area share. Net sown area records unique cultivated land during the agricultural year, and its percentage varies according to forests, settlements and other competing land uses.
Q58. Assertion: Aman paddy is grown in the monsoon. Reason: Aman requires plentiful water. Select the relationship.
[WBCS Main Examination (West Bengal Geography), 2017]
(A) Both correct and the reason explains the assertion
(B) Assertion correct but reason incorrect
(C) Both incorrect
(D) Both correct but reason does not explain the assertion
Answer: (A) Both correct and the reason explains the assertion
Explanation: Aman rice is the principal monsoon-season rice crop in much of eastern India. Its water requirements make rainy-season cultivation suitable, so the reason directly accounts for the cropping season.
Q57. Which Andhra Pradesh district was identified as a leading paddy-producing district?
[WBCS Main (Indian Geography), 2017]
(A) Guntur
(B) Vellore
(C) East Godavari
(D) West Godavari
Answer: (D) West Godavari
Explanation: West Godavari lies within the intensively cultivated Godavari delta area. Canal irrigation, fertile alluvium and favourable growing conditions support considerable paddy cultivation and distinguish the coastal Andhra rice-producing belt.
Q56. In which of these states was shifting cultivation NOT traditionally practised according to the question?
[WBCS Preliminary Examination, 2017]
(A) Assam
(B) West Bengal
(C) Odisha
(D) Andhra Pradesh
Answer: (B) West Bengal
Explanation: Shifting cultivation has been especially important in hill and tribal belts of northeastern, eastern and central India. Its geographical distribution is associated with forest clearings and land-use systems that alternate cultivation and fallow.
Q55. Which crop registered the greatest production growth under the Green Revolution?
[WBCS Preliminary Examination, 2017]
(A) Wheat
(B) Rice
(C) Oilseeds
(D) Maize
Answer: (A) Wheat
Explanation: The earliest Green Revolution in India strongly favoured wheat, especially in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. Irrigation, high-yielding seeds and fertilizer access raised wheat production markedly, while other crops and regions responded at different rates.
Q54. Which crop was the most important cash crop by production value among the choices?
[WBCS Preliminary Examination, 2017]
(A) Cotton
(B) Oilseeds
(C) Sugarcane
(D) Tobacco
Answer: (C) Sugarcane
Explanation: Sugarcane has long been a high-value commercial crop in Indian agriculture. Extensive cultivation in Uttar Pradesh and peninsular states links fields to mills, transport and markets. Its substantial water requirements also shape regional farming geography.
2016
Q53. Which traditional unit of field-area measurement is especially associated with Uttar Pradesh?
[UPPSC Main Examination, 2016]
(A) Kanal
(B) Marla
(C) Bigha
(D) Dhur
Answer: (C) Bigha
Explanation: Bigha is a traditional measure frequently used in Uttar Pradesh land transactions and rural descriptions. Its precise area can vary by locality, so formal land records increasingly rely on standardized units such as hectares.
Q52. Mar, a type of black soil, is found in which Uttar Pradesh district?
[UPPSC RO/ARO Preliminary Examination, 2016]
(A) Kanpur
(B) Pratapgarh
(C) Sitapur
(D) Jhansi
Answer: (D) Jhansi
Explanation: Mar soil occurs in the Bundelkhand region, including Jhansi. It is a black, clayey soil within the broader regional soil classification and differs from many of the lighter alluvial soils of the Ganga plain.
Q51. Which region is traditionally most important for cotton cultivation?
[WBCS Main (Indian Geography), 2016]
(A) Tamil Nadu coast
(B) Indo-Gangetic plain
(C) Deccan Trap
(D) Chotanagpur plateau
Answer: (C) Deccan Trap
Explanation: The Deccan Trap region is associated with expansive black cotton soils, which retain moisture through dry spells. This soil-climate combination made parts of Maharashtra and neighbouring western peninsular India a longstanding cotton-growing belt.
