CBSE Class 10 Social Science Agriculture MCQs Set 05

Answer: (b) Plantation agriculture

Explanation:
1. Plantation agriculture is defined by growing a single crop over a large area, often as an estate.

Teacher's Note:
a) Plantation agriculture means a single crop grown over a large estate.
b) Shifting and intensive agriculture instead involve different land-use patterns.

Answer: (b) Transport and communication plays an important role

Explanation:
1. Commercial farming depends heavily on good transport and communication to move produce to distant markets.

Teacher's Note:
a) Transport and communication are essential to commercial farming's market access.
b) Fragmented plots, low yield and high population pressure are instead features of subsistence farming.

Answer: (a) Rabi crops are sown - October to December

Explanation:
1. Rabi crops are indeed sown from October to December and harvested in summer; the other pairs are incorrect (gram is a pulse, not paddy; Aus/Aman/Boro are rice varieties grown in different seasons, not government schemes).

Teacher's Note:
a) Rabi crops are sown October-December, harvested in summer.
b) The other listed pairs misdescribe gram, and Aus/Aman/Boro (which are rice-crop varieties, not schemes).

Answer: (c) Maize

Explanation:
1. Maize is used both as a food grain for humans and as fodder for livestock.

Teacher's Note:
a) Maize serves as both human food and animal fodder.
b) This dual use makes it an especially versatile Kharif crop.

Answer: (d) Watermelon

Explanation:
1. Watermelon is a Zaid crop, grown during the short summer season between the Rabi and Kharif seasons.

Teacher's Note:
a) Watermelon is a classic Zaid-season crop.
b) Zaid crops are grown in the short summer window between Rabi and Kharif.

Answer: (c) Rabi crop

Explanation:
1. Boro is a rice crop grown in parts of eastern India, classified here as a Rabi-season crop.

Teacher's Note:
a) Boro is treated as a Rabi-season rice crop in this classification.
b) It is distinct from the Kharif-season Aus and Aman rice varieties.

Answer: (c) Roca

Explanation:
1. Shifting cultivation (jhumming in India) is known as 'Roca' in Brazil; 'Ladang' is instead the term used in Malaysia/Indonesia.

Teacher's Note:
a) Brazil's name for shifting cultivation is Roca.
b) Different countries use different local names: Ladang (Malaysia/Indonesia), Milpa (Central America), Roca (Brazil).

Answer: (d) Moong

Explanation:
1. Moong is a genuine Kharif-season pulse, unlike gram and wheat, which are Rabi crops.

Teacher's Note:
a) Moong fits the Kharif slot in this seasonal pattern.
b) Gram and wheat are Rabi crops, so they don't belong in the Kharif blank.

Answer: (b) Gram

Explanation:
1. Gram is a Rabi crop, sown in winter and harvested in summer.

Teacher's Note:
a) Gram is grown in the Rabi (winter) season.
b) Rice, millets and cotton are instead Kharif crops.

Answer: (a) Pulses

Explanation:
1. Pulses belong to the legume family and help restore soil nitrogen.

Teacher's Note:
a) Pulses are the leguminous crop among these options.
b) They help fix nitrogen in the soil, improving its fertility.

Answer: (b) Minimum support price

Explanation:
1. The government announces a Minimum Support Price (MSP) to protect farmers from sharp price falls during bumper harvests.

Teacher's Note:
a) MSP (Minimum Support Price) protects farmers from price crashes.
b) It is announced before the sowing season for key crops.

Answer: (d) Farmers clear a patch of land by felling trees and burning them, to produce cereals and other food crops

Explanation:
1. Clearing and burning land to grow cereals describes shifting cultivation, not plantation farming, making it the incorrect statement about plantations.

Teacher's Note:
a) Clearing/burning land for cereals describes shifting cultivation, not plantations.
b) Plantations instead involve a single cash crop grown over large estates.

Answer: (c) Tea, coffee, banana and sugarcane

Explanation:
1. Tea, coffee, banana and sugarcane are classic plantation crops, grown as single cash crops over large estates.

Teacher's Note:
a) Tea, coffee, banana and sugarcane are plantation crops.
b) Rice, maize, wheat and pulses are instead typical field crops.

Answer: (b) Rabi, Kharif and Zaid

Explanation:
1. India's three main crop seasons are Rabi, Kharif and Zaid.

Teacher's Note:
a) India's crop seasons: Rabi, Kharif, Zaid.
b) Aus, Aman and Boro are instead rice varieties grown in different seasons in eastern India.

Answer: (a) Sown in winter and harvested in summer

Explanation:
1. Rabi crops are sown in winter (October-December) and harvested in summer (April-June).

Teacher's Note:
a) Rabi crops: sown in winter, harvested in summer.
b) Examples include wheat, gram and mustard.

Answer: (a) With the onset of monsoon and harvested in September-October

Explanation:
1. Kharif crops are sown with the onset of the monsoon and harvested around September-October.

Teacher's Note:
a) Kharif crops: sown with the monsoon, harvested by autumn.
b) Rice, maize, cotton and jowar are common Kharif crops.

Answer: (c) Rice

Explanation:
1. Rice is the main food crop of the Kharif season in India.

Teacher's Note:
a) Rice is the leading Kharif-season food crop.
b) It needs the heavy monsoon rainfall that defines this season.

Answer: (a) Wheat

Explanation:
1. Wheat is the main food crop of the Rabi season, grown in winter across North India.

Teacher's Note:
a) Wheat is the leading Rabi-season food crop.
b) It is sown in winter and harvested by early summer.