Agriculture Social Study Chapter Solutions NCERT Class 10
1. Write about Rabi crops?
Answer :
- Rabi crops are sown in winter from October to December.
- They are harvested in summer from April to June.
- The mainly include wheat, berley, peas, gram, and mustard.
- States from north and north-western parts such as Punjab,Haryana,himachal Pradesh,jammu and Kashmir,Uttaranchal and uttar Pradesh are important for the production of wheat and other rabi crops.
2. Write about kharif crops?
Answer :
- Kharif crops are grown with the onset of monsoon in different parts of the country.
- These are harvested in September – October.
- Important crops are paddy maize, jawar, bajra, arhar, mung, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut.
3. What are the important rice growing reasons?
Answer :
- Rice growing regions are Assam, west Bengal, coastal regions of odisha, Andhra Pradesh, tamil nadu, kerla and maharastra particularly the konkan along with uttar Pradesh and bihar.
- The dams that were constructed to control floods have triggered floods due to sestimentation in the warrior.
- Paddy has also become important crop of Punjab and Haryana.
- In states like Assam, west Bengal and Odisha, three crops of paddy are grown, these are Aees, Aman, Boro.
4. Write a short note on zaid crops?
Answer :
In between rabi and kharif season, there is a short season during the summer months known as zaid season some of the crops are watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber, vegetables and fadder crops. Sugarcane almost takes a year to grow.
Rice
- It is the staple food crop of majority of people in India.
- It requires high tempreture (above 25 c) and high humidity with annual rainfall about 100cm. In the area of less rain fall it grows with the help of irrigation.
- It grows in plains of north and north – eastern India, coastal areas of deltaic regions.
- Irrigation and tubewells have made possible to grow rice in Punjab , Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh and parts of Rajasthan.
- This is the second most important cereal crop .
- It is the main food crop in North and North Western part .
- It requires cool growing season and a bright sunshine at the time of ripening .
- It requires 50cm to 75cm annual rainfall .
- Major wheat producing state are Punjab , Haryana , Utter Pradesh , Bihar , Rajasthan and parts of Madhya Pradesh .
- Jowar , bajra and ragi are the important millets grown in India .
- Though , they are known as coarse grains , they have very high nutritional value .
- For example ragis , very rich in iron , calcium , other micro nutrients and rough age .
Jowar - Maharast , Karnataka , Andhra Pradesh , Madhya Pradesh .
Bajra - Rajasthan , UP , Maharasta , Gujurat , Haryana .
Ragi - Karnataka , Tamil Nadu , Himachal Pradesh , Sikkim , Uttarakhand , Arunanchal Pradesh , Jharkhand .
5. What are given priority to bring about Institutional reforms ?
Answer :
- Collectivisation
- Consolidation of holdings
- Co-operation and abolition of zamindari etc were given priority to bring about the institutional reforms .
GDP growth rate is increasing or the years it is not generating sufficient employment opportunities in the country .
6.Who is responsible for procuring food grains ?
Answer :
Food corporation if India ( FCI ) is responsible for procuring and stocking food grains , where as distribution is insured by the public distribution system ( PDS ) .
7. What do you mean by minimum support price ( MSP ) ?
Answer :
The FCI procures food grains from the farmers at the government announced minimum support price ( MSP ) .
