2024
Q140. Jute is classified under which crop-use category?
[CUET UG Agriculture, 2024]
(A) Forage crop
(B) Fibre crop
(C) Drug crop
(D) Medicinal and aromatic crop
Answer: (B) Fibre crop
Explanation: Jute is a bast-fibre crop whose stem yields fibre after retting and extraction. Its cultivation is especially associated with the humid eastern plains, where warm conditions and sufficient moisture favour growth.
Q139. Which increasing sequence of Indian oilseed cultivation area was identified in the paper: sesame, soybean, groundnut, rapeseed-mustard?
[CUET UG Agriculture, 2024]
(A) Sesame, mustard, groundnut, sesame
(B) Sesame, groundnut, soybean, mustard
(C) Soybean, sesame, mustard, groundnut
(D) Sesame, groundnut, mustard, soybean
Answer: (D) Sesame, groundnut, mustard, soybean
Explanation: The reported ordering begins with sesame and ends with soybean, with groundnut and rapeseed-mustard between them. Oilseed acreage is sensitive to monsoon conditions, relative prices and region-specific crop choices.
Q138. Which of these is NOT normally cultivated as a zaid-season crop?
[SSC CGL Tier I (13 September, Shift 3), 2024]
(A) Rice
(B) Muskmelon
(C) Watermelon
(D) Cucumber
Answer: (A) Rice
Explanation: Zaid is the brief summer crop season between rabi harvesting and kharif sowing, roughly March to June. Muskmelon, watermelon and cucumber are typical short-duration examples. Main-season rice cultivation generally coincides with monsoon rainfall.
Q137. Which state was the largest pulse producer among the listed alternatives?
[SSC CGL Tier I (9 September, Shift 1), 2024]
(A) Punjab
(B) Madhya Pradesh
(C) Haryana
(D) Bihar
Answer: (B) Madhya Pradesh
Explanation: Madhya Pradesh has long been a leading pulse-producing region because of its extensive gram, tur and other pulse-growing tracts. Many of these crops are cultivated under rainfed conditions, particularly in the central Indian agricultural belt.
2023
Q136. Which factors place excessive pressure on India’s farmland: inheritance, uneconomic holdings, fragmentation and multiple cropping?
[SSC Stenographer (12 Oct, morning), 2023]
(A) Inheritance and uneconomic holdings only
(B) Uneconomic holdings, fragmentation and multiple cropping
(C) Inheritance, fragmentation and multiple cropping
(D) Inheritance, uneconomic holdings and fragmentation
Answer: (D) Inheritance, uneconomic holdings and fragmentation
Explanation: Inheritance arrangements and repeated division of family holdings can fragment agricultural land into very small parcels. Uneconomic holdings make efficient machinery and irrigation management harder; growing multiple crops is not itself the cited cause.
Q135. With which country are high-yield wheat seeds of India’s Green Revolution strongly associated?
[SSC Stenographer (12 Oct, evening), 2023]
(A) Russia
(B) Mexico
(C) China
(D) United States
Answer: (B) Mexico
Explanation: Modern semi-dwarf wheat lines developed through work in Mexico strongly influenced India’s Green Revolution. Adaptation of such material, together with fertilizers and irrigation, raised wheat productivity during the late 1960s.
Q134. Which was NOT a positive outcome of the Green Revolution?
[SSC Stenographer (12 Oct, evening), 2023]
(A) Farmers obtaining benefits
(B) Growth of related industry
(C) Lower dependence on imported cereals
(D) Exclusion of non-foodgrain crops
Answer: (D) Exclusion of non-foodgrain crops
Explanation: The focus on wheat and rice left several non-cereal crops with smaller initial benefits. Although grain availability and some associated industries improved, the unequal distribution of gains created concerns about regional and crop disparities.
Q133. Which high-yielding rice variety was called miracle rice?
[SSC Stenographer (13 Oct, evening), 2023]
(A) IR9
(B) IR8
(C) PETA
(D) DGWG
Answer: (B) IR8
Explanation: IR8 was a semi-dwarf high-yielding rice cultivar associated with the International Rice Research Institute. Improved varieties of this type contributed to enhanced rice productivity when supported by suitable water and nutrient management.
Q132. The stated high-temperature kharif conditions require rainfall above which annual threshold?
[SSC CPO (3 Oct, morning), 2023]
(A) 16 cm
(B) 50 cm
(C) 100 cm
(D) 35 cm
Answer: (C) 100 cm
Explanation: The examination specified a warm and humid kharif climate with annual rainfall exceeding one hundred centimetres. Rice and several other monsoon crops thrive in wet conditions, although individual crop needs vary considerably.
Q131. What is the agricultural area served below a main canal’s water level called?
[SSC CPO (4 Oct, evening), 2023]
(A) Command area
(B) Lift system
(C) Flow system
(D) Warabandi
Answer: (A) Command area
Explanation: A canal command area is the cultivable tract that can receive irrigation from the canal network. Its efficient operation depends on equitable distribution, drainage and field-level water management.
