Agricultural Geography -(QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUIDE)

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Agricultural Geography – , By – Y.K. Sharma, ISBN Code – 978-93-86828-93-4

CONTENTS :

Chapters

1. Agricultural Geography: Meaning, Definition, Nature

and Development

2. Origin of Agriculture and Diffusion of Crops during

Prehistoric, Medieval and Modern Periods

3. Approaches and Models of Study of Agricultural

Geography

4. Objectives of Study and Scope of Agricultural

Geography

5. Relationship of Agricultural Geography with

Economics, Sociology and Statistics

6. Importance of Agriculture : Agriculture as a Primary

Occupation

7. Physical Determinants (Factors) Affecting Agriculture
8. Socio-Cultural and Economic Determinants (Factors)

Affecting Agriculture

9. Basic (Fundamental) Concepts of Agricultural

Geography, Sources of Agricultural Data and Agri-

cultural Process

10. Agricultural Land Use Pattern : 1. Land Classification
11. Agricultural Land Use Pattern : 2. Global Perspective

of Approaches to the Land Use Survey

12. Agricultural Land Use Patterns : 3. Land Utilization

in India and Related Aspects

13. Models/Theories of Agricultural Location
14. Agricultural Regionalization of the World :

Whittlesey’s  Classification and Agricultural Regions of

U.S.A., (Erstwhile) USSR, China and India

15. Agricultural Planning Regions, Agricultural Regions,

Agro-Climatic Regions and Developmental Planning

Regions of India

16. The Concepts and Regions of Crop Concentration,

Crop Combination and Crop Diversification together

With Arbitrary Choice Method _

17. World’s Major Agricultural Systems: 1. Nomadic

Herding, Livestock Ranching and Commercial Grazing

18. World’s Major Agricultural Systems: 2. Sedentary

Agriculture, Intensive and Extensive Agriculture and

Plantation Agriculture

19. World’s Major Agricultural Systems: 3. Mediator-

raven Agricultural System, Mixed Farming, Dairy

Farming Horticulture (Truck Farming), Collective

(Cooperative) Farming and State Farming

20. World’s Major Agricultural Systems : 4. Shifting

Cultivation or Jumping with an Emphasis on North- East India

21. The Concept of Cropping Intensity and its Measure- ment
22. Commercial Dairy Farming: The Concept of ‘White

Revolution’ in Indian Context

23. Horticulture: The Indian Context
24. Importance of Land in Agriculture and the Concepts

of Agricultural Efficiency and Productivity

25. Land Holdings and Land Tenure Systems: The Conceptual Aspect
26. Land Reforms
27. New Agriculture Policy
28. Indian Agriculture: Attributes, Problem of Low Agricultural Productivity
29. Recent Trends in Indian Agriculture
30. Green Revolution in India
31. Socio-Ecological Implications of Green Revolution
32. Agricultural Development during Different Five Year

Plans : 1. First, Second and Third Five Year Plans, and Three Annual plans (1966-69)

33. Agricultural Development during Different Five Year

Plans : 2. Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Five Year Plans

34. Agricultural Development during Different Five Year

Plans : 3. Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Five Years

alongwith Emphasis on Agriculture in Eleventh Five year plan

35. Agricultural Development in North-East India
36. Rule of Irrigation in Agriculture
37. Role of Fertilizers in Agriculture
38. Role of Insecticides and Pesticides in Agriculture:

The Concept of Plant Protection

Objective type Questions