Q120. Match jhum, dahiya, penda and kumari with Northeast India, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Western Ghats.
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(A) Western Ghats, Northeast, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh
(B) Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Northeast, Western Ghats
(C) Andhra Pradesh, Northeast, Madhya Pradesh, Western Ghats
(D) Northeast, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Western Ghats
Answer: (D) Northeast, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Western Ghats
Explanation: Regional names for shifting farming include jhum in the Northeast, dahiya in central India, penda or podu in Andhra Pradesh, and kumari in the Western Ghats. These systems often involve clearing a site before cultivation.
Q119. Which is an important agricultural use of harvested rainwater?
[SSC CHSL (9 Aug, shift 2), 2023]
(A) Cooking
(B) Irrigation
(C) Water for pets
(D) Industrial processing
Answer: (B) Irrigation
Explanation: Stored rainwater can supply supplementary irrigation, especially during dry spells. Harvesting also reduces rapid runoff and may aid groundwater recharge, helping stabilize cultivation in rainfall-dependent rural regions.
Q118. What is meant by subsistence agriculture?
[SSC CHSL (9 Aug, shift 3), 2023]
(A) Producing enough for the entire country
(B) Producing mainly for the farming household
(C) Producing a guaranteed monetary income
(D) Producing chiefly for sale
Answer: (B) Producing mainly for the farming household
Explanation: Subsistence farming primarily meets the food requirements of the farmer’s household, leaving relatively little marketable surplus. It often relies on family labour and may coexist with limited local exchange.
Q117. Which was NOT a negative effect of the Green Revolution?
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(A) Benefits concentrated among better-resourced farmers
(B) Advantages favoured access to land, capital and technology
(C) Some tenant cultivators were displaced
(D) Large-scale urban-to-rural migration resulted
Answer: (D) Large-scale urban-to-rural migration resulted
Explanation: The Green Revolution brought uneven gains and sometimes changed labour relations, but a broad movement of people from towns to villages is not treated as its established adverse effect. Mechanization also changed demand for some farm tasks.
Q116. Which Indian state is famous for traditional bamboo drip irrigation?
[SSC CHSL (11 Aug, shift 2), 2023]
(A) Telangana
(B) Meghalaya
(C) Maharashtra
(D) Chhattisgarh
Answer: (B) Meghalaya
Explanation: Farmers in Meghalaya have long channelled stream water through bamboo pipes to irrigate small hillside plots. The system adapts locally available materials to steep topography and controlled water delivery.
Q115. According to Census 2011, 54.6 percent of workers were associated with which sector and its allied activities?
[SSC CHSL (14 Aug, shift 1), 2023]
(A) Hunting and gathering
(B) Manufacturing
(C) Agriculture
(D) Mining
Answer: (C) Agriculture
Explanation: The question cites the 2011 Census-era proportion employed in agriculture and allied activities. The statistic reflects the sector’s historical significance for livelihoods and should not be treated as a current workforce estimate.
Q114. Which statement about India’s Green Revolution is false?
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(A) It received international assistance
(B) It was a private-sector modernization programme
(C) It targeted wheat- and rice-growing areas
(D) It benefited areas with assured irrigation
Answer: (B) It was a private-sector modernization programme
Explanation: India’s Green Revolution involved government programmes and public agricultural research, not merely a private-sector initiative. International cooperation, improved seeds and irrigation infrastructure collectively enabled its early productivity gains.
Q113. Which major plantation crop is widely grown in Assam?
[SSC CHSL (17 Aug, shift 1), 2023]
(A) Tea
(B) Wheat
(C) Rice
(D) Maize
Answer: (A) Tea
Explanation: Assam’s humid climate and adequate rainfall support extensive tea estates in the Brahmaputra Valley and other suitable areas. Plantation agriculture here supplies both domestic markets and export-oriented processing.
Q112. Which change was NOT typically associated with labour relations during the Green Revolution?
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(A) Weakening traditional hereditary labour ties
(B) Growth in free wage labour
(C) A shift from money wages to payment in grain
(D) Greater labour use under intensified cropping
Answer: (C) A shift from money wages to payment in grain
Explanation: The spread of commercial agriculture and monetized rural employment did not characteristically cause a shift from cash wages back toward payment in grain. Other changes included greater market orientation and altered labour demand.
Q111. What temperature and humidity combination generally favours rice cultivation?
[SSC MTS (4 May, afternoon), 2023]
(A) Low temperature and low humidity
(B) High temperature and low humidity
(C) High temperature and high humidity
(D) Low temperature and high humidity
Answer: (C) High temperature and high humidity
Explanation: Rice is a warm-season crop and generally performs well with humid conditions and abundant water during growth. Its climatic needs explain its concentration in monsoon-affected plains and irrigated agricultural belts.
