List of top Geography Questions on Land Resources and Agriculture

Two statements are given below. They are Assertion and Reason (R). Read both the statements carefully and choose the correct option :
Assertion : ‘The agriculturally rich states of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh are facing the crisis of groundwater depletion.’
Reason (R) : ‘More groundwater is utilised for irrigation than water-table recharge.’

Read the following statements related to Indira Gandhi Canal Project carefully and choose the correct option :
(i) Indira Gandhi Canal project was conceived by Kanwar Sain in 1950 and it was launched in 1961.
(ii) Introduction of canal irrigation has brought perceptible changes in the agricultural economy of the command area.
(iii) Spread of canal irrigation has led to increase in cultivated area and crop intensity.
(iv) Traditional crops of jowar, bajra has been replaced by rice and wheat etc.

Choose the correctly matched pair of areas and their characteristics from the following:

Identify the correct statements about Common Property Resources.
(A) According to ownership, land can be classified as - Private land and Common Property Resources.
(B) The land owned by the state meant for use of the community is called Common Property Resource.
(C) The Common Property Resource is of particular relevance for the livelihood of landless and marginal farmers in rural areas.
(D) The ownership of Common Property Resource land lies with a group of people living in that area.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Explain any five problems faced by the agricultural sector in India.

The successful implementation of watershed management programme in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh was funded by which one of the following?

“The pressure on agricultural land increases not only due to the limited availability, but also by deterioration of quality of agricultural land.” In the context of this statement read the following reasons carefully and choose the correct option.

I. Soil erosion and waterlogging.
II. Salinisation and alkalinisation of soil.
III. Rich land fertility and multiple cropping.
IV. Decline in land productivity.

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

Name an area of ‘nomadic herding’ in Africa.

Arrange the following steps of primitive subsistence agriculture in sequential order.
(A) Vegetation is usually cleared 
(B) Ashes of brunt vegetation added to soil for enhancing fertility 
(C) Cleared vegetation is burnt by fire 
(D) Farmers shift to another part and clear other patch 
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

_______ is non-Mediterranean agriculture region.

Identify correct statements about land use categories.
(A) ‘Land put to non-agricultural uses’ includes land under settlements, roads, industries etc.
(B) ‘Cultural wasteland’ include land left uncultivated for more than five years.
(C) ‘Current fallow’ is land which is left without cultivation for one or less than one agriculture year.
(D) ‘Net area sown’ is greater than the physical extent of area under crops due to multiple cropping on the same piece of land.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :