Why Agriculture Matters
Two in every three people.
↳ Food, jobs, industry and exports all run through farming.
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Agriculture · Class 10 Geography
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Why Methods Changed
Three forces shaped how India farms.
Cultivation methods changed depending on the physical environment, technological know-how and socio-cultural practices. Farming now ranges from subsistence to commercial.
↳ Place, technology and custom decide the system.
Primitive Subsistence Farming
Small patches, simple tools.
↳ Still practised in a few pockets of India.
Rabi, Kharif and Zaid
Three seasons, one calendar.
India has three cropping seasons — rabi, kharif and zaid — reflecting its physical diversities and plurality of cultures.
↳ The seasons follow the climate.
The Rabi Season
Sown in winter, cut in summer.
↳ Two date ranges, five crops.
Where Rabi Matters Most
The north-west carries the rabi harvest.
States of the north and north-west are important for wheat and other rabi crops: Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
↳ Six states, all in the north and north-west.
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1
Types of Farming, from Slash and Burn to Plantation
Why agriculture matters to India, how farming ranges from subsistence to commercial, and the four systems the chapter describes — primitive subsistence, intensive subsistence, commercial and plantation farming — with the…
- India is an agriculturally important country, and two-thirds of its population is engaged in agricultural activities
- Agriculture produces most of the food we consume and raw material for various industries, and some products such as tea, coffee and spices a…
- Cultivation methods have changed with the physical environment, technological know-how and socio-cultural practices, and farming varies from…
~22 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
The Cropping Seasons — Rabi, Kharif and Zaid
India's three cropping seasons, when each is sown and harvested, which crops and which regions belong to each, what makes rabi crops succeed in the north-west, and the crops that do not fit neatly into one season.
- India's physical diversity and plurality of cultures are reflected in its agricultural practices and cropping patterns
- India has three cropping seasons — rabi, kharif and zaid
- Rabi crops go into the ground in the winter months of October to December and come off in the summer, between April and June
~20 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
The Food Grains — Rice, Wheat, Millets, Maize and Pulses
The conditions each food grain needs and where it is grown, why millets are called coarse grains yet prized for nutrition, why pulses restore the soil, and how to read the chapter's maps of the major areas of rice and wh…
- Rice feeds most Indians as their staple, and only China grows more of it
- Rice is a kharif crop needing high temperature above 25°C, high humidity and annual rainfall above 100 cm, with irrigation in areas of less…
- Rice is grown in the plains of north and north-east India, coastal areas and deltaic regions, and canal irrigation and tube-wells have taken…
~24 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
4
Sugarcane, Oilseeds, Beverages, Horticulture and the Fibre Crops
The crops beyond the food grains — sugarcane, oilseeds, tea, coffee, fruits and vegetables, rubber, cotton, jute and silk — with the conditions each needs, where each is grown, and how to answer the map questions on majo…
- Sugarcane is a tropical and subtropical crop needing hot, humid conditions of 21°C to 27°C and 75 to 100 cm of rain, and India is the second…
- Sugarcane is the main source of sugar, gur (jaggery), khandsari and molasses, and needs manual labour from sowing to harvesting
- Oilseeds cover about 12 per cent of the total cropped area; groundnut, a kharif crop, accounts for about half of the major oilseeds, and Guj…
~26 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
5
Technological and Institutional Reforms, and Bhoodan-Gramdan
Why Indian agriculture needed reform, how each round of reform — land reform, the Green and White Revolutions, the comprehensive land development programme — answered the shortcomings of the last, the schemes now offered…
- Sustained use of land without compatible techno-institutional changes has hindered the pace of agricultural development
- In spite of irrigation, most farmers in large parts of the country still depend on the monsoon and natural fertility, which is a serious cha…
- Agriculture provides livelihood for more than 60 per cent of the population and needs serious technical and institutional reforms
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225 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
A family clears a forest patch, grows food crops on it for a few years, and then moves to fresh land when yields fall. Which system is this?
Beginner
A Intensive subsistence farming
B Commercial farming
C Plantation farming
D Primitive subsistence farming of the slash and burn kind
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Primitive subsistence farming of the slash and burn kind
Moving on when fertility declines is the mark of slash and burn.
A crowded village has tiny holdings, and every family uses irrigation, fertiliser and all its members on its plot. Which system does this describe, and why does it arise?
Intermediate
A Commercial farming, arising from access to markets
B Intensive subsistence farming, arising from high population pressure on land
C Plantation farming, arising from capital investment
D Primitive subsistence farming, arising from poor soil
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Intensive subsistence farming, arising from high population pressure on land
Heavy inputs on too little land, for want of any other livelihood.
Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option. Assertion (A): Slash and burn allows the soil of an abandoned patch to recover. Reason (R): Shifting lets Nature replenish the fertility of the soil through natural processes.
Intermediate
A Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
B Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
C A is true but R is false
D A is false but R is true
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Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
The move is how the system rests the land.
Rice is grown heavily in both Punjab and Odisha. Why does the chapter call it commercial in one and subsistence in the other?
Advanced
A Because different varieties of rice are grown in the two states
B Because rice cannot be sold in Odisha
C Because the degree of commercialisation varies by region with inputs, irrigation and the market the crop is grown for
D Because Punjab grows rice only for export
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Because the degree of commercialisation varies by region with inputs, irrigation and the market the crop is grown for
The crop is the same; the purpose and the inputs differ.
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