Land use in Agriculture

What is the name given for a single crop repeatedly grown on the same land.

• Shifting Agriculture

• Monoculture

• Horticulture

• Intensive agriculture

Selecting the right land uses for given biophysical and socio-economic conditions is essential for...

• Minimizing land degradation, rehabilitating degraded land, ensuring the sustainable use of land resources, and maximizing resilience.

• It will not have any effect on the land, but instead foster resilience in the community

• It will elavate the land and the water quality.

• None of the above

Land conversion from natural ecosystems to agriculture has historically been the largest cause of ..................

• Ice forming in Antarctica

• bee attacks

• greenhouse gas emissions

• gas findings on farmland

...............is land used for the cultivation of crops, both temporary (annuals) and permanent (perennials), and may include areas periodically left fallow or used as temporary pasture.

• Fams

• dry land

• land of nature

• Cropland

Permanent meadows and pastures are land used for.....

• Hunting

• crop farming

• harvesting of wheat

• Livestock grazing.

Globally agricultural land area is approximately ................., or ............... of the global land surface.

• five billion hectares or 38 percent

• 6 billion hectares or 39 percent

• 8 billion hectares or 48 percent

• 3 billion hectares or 30 percent

IS THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT TRUE OR FALSE?

About one-third of this is used as cropland, while the remaining two-thirds consist of meadows and pastures) for grazing livestock.

• False

• True

How much of cropland area is used for permanent crops, such as fruit trees, oil palm plantations and cocoa plantations?

• 10 Percent

• 21 Percent

• 34 Percent

• 65 Percent

IS THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT TRUE OR FALSE?

"Global cropland area per capita INCREASED continuously over the period between 1961 and 2016"

• False

• True

Averaged over the decade between 2007 and 2016, the largest share of agricultural land area was in Asia, accounting for what percentage?

• 43 Percent

• 65 Percent

• 34 percent

• 12 Percent