Test: Agriculture - 2 - UPSC MCQ

The nomads techniques of agriculture. Nomads are people who travel around from place to place without having one settled place where they live. Most nomadic groups follow a fixed annual or seasonal pattern of movements and settlements.

Subsistence farming, form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer's family, leaving little, if any, surplus for sale or trade.

Maize requires moderate temperature, rainfall, and plenty of sunshine, thriving in well-drained fertile soils. Major maize-producing countries include North America, Brazil, and India.

In favorable climatic conditions, such as those in West Bengal and Bangladesh, it is possible to grow two to three crops of rice per year due to the suitable temperature, humidity, and rainfall.

Agricultural inputs range from improved seeds, fertilizers and crop protection chemicals to machinery, irrigation and knowledge. Seeds are critical to successful crop production and inevitably, farm productivity and profitability. Fertilizer supplies nutrients to the soil that are essential for growth

The rearing of silkworm for obtaining silk is called sericulture.

Pisciculture also known as fish farming is the rearing of fish for food in enclosures such as fish ponds or tanks. The fish are reared and raised in enclosures such as cages, open nets, tanks and ponds.

Subsistence agriculture is often divided into three different types, including intensive subsistence, which is the traditional method, shifting cultivation, which relies on clearing forest to create new farm plots every few years and pastoral nomadism, which relies on traveling with herds of animals.

• Tea is primarily grown in well-drained loamy soils found on hill slopes.
• This type of soil allows for effective drainage, preventing water accumulation, which is crucial for tea plants.
• Tea requires consistent rainfall but thrives best when the roots are not waterlogged.
• Countries like India, China, and Sri Lanka are famous for their tea cultivation, benefiting from the ideal hilly terrain.