Agriculture in India : Cash Cropis — Geography STD 10 — Question

(i) What is nuclear energy? Which elements are used in this process?
(ii) State its advantages.

Government has banned illegal and indiscriminate cutting of forests.

Name any four factors affecting climate of India.

Classify the minerals giving two examples of each.

Renowned globally for its richly coloured and aromatic tea, Assam, the country's largest tea producer provides livelihood to millions with many others directly or indirectly dependent on the plantation sector. Assam now produces nearly 700 million kg of tea annually and accounts for around half of India's overall tea production. The state also generates annual foreign exchange earnings estimated at an equivalent to Rs 3,000 crore.
1. What are the favourable condition for tea cultivation in Assam?

What is irrigation?

The road transport ministry has sanctioned around Rs 16,000 crore for construction of over 600km of the 1,748- km Frontier Highway in Arunachal Pradesh, indicating govt's priority to improve connectivity and infrastructure along the border, reports Dipak Dash. The greenfield highway (NH 913) will run close to the India-Tibet-China- Myanmar border-barely 20 km from it at several locations.
(a) Why has India decided to make this project on urgent basis?
(b) Why road transport developed better than other mode of transport in India?

What is eutrophication?

(i) Explain the term 'Burst of Monsoon'.
(ii) Which state is the first one to experience it?

The yield of sugarcane is higher in the Deccan Peninsula/South India.