Agriculture in India — Flashcards
Telangana Board · Class 9 · Social Studies
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What is the difference between Simple Subsistence Farming and Intensive Subsistence Farming?
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Simple Subsistence Farming: Practiced on small patches using primitive tools (hoe, dao, digging sticks) with family labor. Depends on monsoon and natural soil fertility. Also called 'slash and burn' o…
Commercial Farming
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A type of farming that uses high doses of modern inputs like HYV seeds, chemical fertilizers, insecticides, and pesticides to obtain higher productivity. The degree of commercialization varies by regi…
Name the three cropping seasons in India and their characteristics.
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1. RABI: Sown October-December, harvested April-June. Crops include wheat, barley, peas, gram, mustard. Benefits from western temperate cyclones. 2. KHARIF: Sown with monsoon onset, harvested Septemb…
Paddy (Rice)
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India's staple food crop and second-largest producer globally after China. A kharif crop requiring high temperature (above 25°C), high humidity, and rainfall above 100cm. Grown in north and northeaste…
Why is wheat cultivation successful in the Ganga-Satluj plains and Deccan plateau?
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Wheat is a rabi crop requiring cool growing season and bright sunshine at ripening. It needs 50-75cm annual rainfall evenly distributed. The Ganga-Satluj plains provide ideal cool winter conditions an…
High Yielding Varieties (HYV)
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Seeds that grow well with fertilizers and water, producing larger grain amounts with shorter stalks and shorter maturity periods. Enable double cropping as farmers can use land more than once per year…
Compare the nutritional value and growing conditions of millets (jowar, bajra, ragi).
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Millets are coarse grains with high nutritional value. Ragi is rich in iron, calcium, micronutrients, and roughage. Jowar is rain-fed, needs little irrigation, grown in moist areas (Maharashtra leads)…
Why are pulses important for Indian agriculture and diet?
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India is the world's largest producer and consumer of pulses. They are the main protein source in vegetarian diets. Being leguminous crops, they fix nitrogen from air and restore soil fertility, makin…
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