Types of agriculture

THE TERM AGRICULTURE HAS BEEN DERIVED FROM

• AGER CULTURE

• AGRI CULT

• SOIL RAISING

• ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

THE MAIN FARM INPUTS ARE

• FERTILIZER AND MACHINERY

• LABOUR AND LAND

• TRANSPORT AND LOANS

• SOIL AND MARKET

IT WAS DEVELOPED BY DR. NORMAN EARNEST BOURLAUG

• FERTILIZERS

• IRRIGATION

• MACHINERY

• HYV SEEDS

LARGEST PRODUCER OF RICE IN THE WORLD

• INDIA

• CHINA

• USA

• BANGLADESH

TEA PLANTS ARE GROWN IN PLANTATIONS LOCATED ALONG THE (a)   SLOPES

THIS IS CALLED GOLDEN FIBRE

• COTTON

• JUTE

• SILK

• SUGARCANE

All of the following are forms of commercial agriculture EXCEPT

• dairy farming

• pastoral nomadism

• cattle ranching

• specialized fruit production

• grain farming

A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is practicing ---

• subsistence agriculture

• commercial farming

• crop rotation

• slash-and-burn agriculture

• shifting cultivation

Which of the following crops is grown on the sides of terraced hills to allow flowing water to run over the plants?

• Wheat

• Rice

• Taro

• Soybeans

• Millet

All of the following are plantation crops EXCEPT

• cotton

• tea

• sugarcane

• rubber

• wheat