Plantation agriculture requires _______.
Large area and large capital investment
Plantation agriculture involves large-scale farming, primarily of cash crops like tea, coffee, rubber, and sugarcane. It requires extensive land (large area) and significant financial investment in infrastructure, labor, and machinery (large capital investment). The correct answer is (d) Large area and large capital investment.
Important Questions from Land Resources and Agriculture
Identify from the following, the correct statements with reference to the characteristics of intensive subsistence agriculture dominated by wet paddy cultivation. (A) Land holdings are very small due to the high density of population. (B) Farmers work with the help of family labour leading to intensive use of land. (C) Farm yard manure is used to maintain the fertility of the soil. (D) The yield per unit area is low, but productivity per labour is high.
Arrange the following agricultural regions from equator to pole :
(A) Commercial grain farming in the Prairies
(B) Reindeer rearing by the Eskimos
(C) Tea plantations of north-east India
(D) Primitive subsistence farming in Indonesia
Arrange the agricultural development of India in chronological order from Independence to the present day: (A) Green Revolution (B) Agro-Climatic Planning (C) Intensive Agricultural District Programme (D) National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
Match List - I with List - II.
List – I: Names for shifting cultivation
(A) Jhuming
(B) Milpa
(C) Ladang
(D) Chena
List – II: Country
(I) Malaysia
(II) India
(III) Mexico
(IV) Sri Lanka
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
The dryland farming is largely confined to the regions having annual rainfall.
