5. Land Resources and Agriculture.

India People and Economy Book – 2

CHAPTER NO. 05
Land Resources and Agriculture
Very Short Answer type questions. (important Questions)

Q1. What do you mean by community forest?
Ans. A larger group than a house hold or family unit exercises rights of use and carries responsibility of management is known as community forest.

Q2. What is the work of the Survey Dept. of India?
Ans. Measuring geographical area.

Q3. Define the term Net Sown Area?
Ans. The physical extent of land on which crops are sown & harvested is known as net sown area.

Q4. What do you mean by the term fallow land?
Ans. Arable land left uncultivated for one or more seasons to restore fertility of its soil.
Q5 How are pulses important for health?
Ans. Pulses are a very important ingredient of vegetable food as these are rich sources of proteins.

Q6. What is the reason of declining pastures and grassland in India?
Ans. Pressure from agriculture land.

Class-12-Geography-Notes-Land-Use-CLASSIFICATION

Q8. Name any two crops of wet farming.
Ans. Rice, sugarcane.

Q9. Mention any two significance of pulses.
Ans. i. pulses are leguminous crops which add fertility in the soil by concentration of nitrogen.
ii. Pulses are the sources of protein for vegetarian people.

Q10. Which type of climate is required for coffee plantation in India?
Ans. Tropical Region.

Q11. Classify the farming on the basis of moisture.
Ans. Wet land farming and Dry land farming.

Q12. Write the names of the two beverages crops?
Ans. Tea and coffee.

Q13. What is the Percentage of Net sown area in India?
Ans. 54% of the total reporting area.

Q14. What is the desire percentage of forest area in the country?
Ans. 33%.

Q15. Which body maintains the land use record?
Ans. Land, revenue department.

Q16. Full forms of these:
1. CPRs - Common property resources,
2. CI - Cropping intensity,
3. IAAP - Intensive agriculture area programme,
4. IADP - Intensive agriculture district programme.

Q17. What is the ‘Aus’ ‘Aman and Boro’?
Ans. It is the type of rice,(W.B) farmers grow three crops of rice called Aus, Aman, Boro.

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Q18. What is the Barani?
Ans. The farming can be classified as irrigated and rainfall (barani).it is a type of farming.

Q19. What is the Narma?
Ans. It is a type of cotton. The long staple (American) cotton called Narma.

Q20. What is the rank of India in the production of cotton?
Ans. 4^thranks of India in the world.

Q21. What is the red gram or pigeon pea?
Ans. Tur is the second most important pulse crop in the country .it is the also known as red gram or pigeon pea.

Q22. What is the name of three varieties of Coffee?
Ans. Arabica, Robusta, Liberica.

Q23. What is the rank of India to produce sugarcane?
Ans. 2^nd ranks.

Q24. In which plantation India have first position?
Ans. Tea.

Q25. In which of the following group of countries of the world HYV of wheat and rice were developed?
Ans. 1. Wheat –Mexico, 2. Rice – Philippines.

Q26. Define common property resource?
Ans. CPRs can be defined as community’s natural resource, where every member has the right to access and usage with specified obligations.

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Q.27.How the total stock of agricultural land resource can be estimated?
Ans. An estimation of the total stock of agricultural land resource [i.e., total cultivable land] can be arrived at by adding up net sown area, all fallow lands and cultivable wasteland.

Q28. Write down the formula for calculating the cropping intensity?
Or
How the crop intensity is calculated?
Ans. C.I in % age = GCA\NSA X 100.

Q.29.What are the objectives of irrigation on which irrigated farming is based?
Ans.1. Protective irrigation.
2. Productive irrigation.

Q30.What is the further classification of rainfall farming?
Ans.1.Dry land farming.
2. Wet land farming.

Q31.How food grains are classified?
Ans. Food grain- 1.Cereals 2. Pulses.

Q32. How cereals are classified? Give examples.
Ans. Two type- 1. Cereals – Fine grains – Rice, Wheat, Examples.
2. Coarse grain – Jowar, Bajra, Maize Examples.

Q33. Which sector is effected land by increasing population?
Ans. Waste agricultural land, Net sown area, Pastures area.

Q34. How the rate of increase can be derived? Mention its formula?
Ans. Simple growth ie. [difference of values b/w the two points]
Value of terminal yr. – Base yr. / Base yr. X 100.

Q35. Which is the second most important cereal crop in India?
Ans. Wheat.

Q36. Name the crop which is food as well as fodder crop?
Ans. Maize.

Q.37. In India, when did tea plantation started and where?
Ans. In 1840s in Brahmaputra valley of Assam.

Q.38.What is the land human ratio in the country India as compared to whole?
Ans. Land – human ratio is 0.31 hectare. And half of the world as whole.[0.59 hectare].

Q39. What is the twin menaces in Indian agriculture?
Ans. Droughts and floods.

Q40. What is Green Revolution?
Ans. Boost out in the production of food grain crops (1966-1967).
1. Father of green revolution Norman Borelog in world.
2. Father of green revolution M.S Swaminathan in India.
Benefited crop by green revolution are Wheat, Rice. A benefited area is Punjab.

Q41. Describe Agricultural Problems in India?
Ans. 1. Erratic Monsoon
2. Low Productivity
3. Small Farm Size
4. Lack of Land Reforms.

Q42. In which state consumption of fertilizers is most in India?
Ans. Punjab.

Q43. Which departments maintained the records of land use?
Ans. Land revenue department.

Q44. How many types of tea leaves and what are their important features of these leaves?
Ans. Black tea leaves which are fermented and green tea leaves which are unfermented.

Q45. How many types of cropping seasons are there in India?

Ans. There are three main cropping seasons in India – Kharif, Rabi, and Zaid.

Q46. Define Current Fallow?
Ans. This is the land which is left without cultivation for one or less than one agricultural year.

Q47. Define Fallow other than Current Fallow?
Ans. This is also a cultivable land which is left cultivated for more than a year or less than five years.

Q48. Define Barren and Waste land?
Ans. The land which may be classified as a waste land such as barren hilly, terrains, desert lands, ravines, and etc.

Q49. Which Department is responsible for measuring Geographical area?
Ans. The Survey of India.

Q50. Give some example of common property resource?
Ans. Community forest, Pastures.

Q51. Distinguish between Dry agriculture and wet agriculture:
Ans. 1.Dry agriculture: Practiced in the area having less than 75 cm rainfall. Ex.- Ragi, Bajra.
2. Wet agriculture: Practiced in the area having more than 75cm of rainfall. Ex. -Rice.

Q52. Name any factors which responsible for high productivity of crops in India?
Ans. 1. High Yielding varieties of seed (HYV Seeds).
2. Fertilizers.

Q53. What type of soils used for doing agriculture?
Ans. Good water drain soil is known as Loam soil.

Q54. What are the reasons in development of non- agricultural land?
Ans. Waste agricultural land and non-agricultural land are take in used for secondary and tertiary activities.

Q55. Where the highest production of Cotton, Wheat, Sugarcane, Rice, Jute, Coffee, maize, Mustard and Groundnut were found?
Ans. 1.Cotton: Gujarat,
2. Wheat: Uttar Pradesh,
3. Sugarcane: Uttar Pradesh,
4. Rice/Jute: West Bengal,
5. Tea: Assam,
6. Coffee: Karnataka,
7. Maize: Karnataka,
8. Groundnut: Gujarat,
9. Mustard: Rajasthan.

Q57. Which trouble is called twin trouble in Indian agriculture?
Ans. Drought and Flood.

Q58. Define Culturable Waste-land?

Ans. Any land which is left fallow for more than five years in this category.

BOOK-01: Fundamentals of Human Geography

Chapter 1. Human Geography Nature and Scope.

Chapter 2. The World Population (Distribution, Density and Growth).

Chapter 3. Population Composition.

Chapter 4. Human Development.

Chapter 5. Primary Activities.

Chapter 6. Secondary Activities.

Chapter 7. Tertiary and Quaternary Activities.

Chapter 8. Transport and Communication.