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 Impacts of Globlisation on Indian Agriculture Positive Impacts: 1. Globalisation has given the opportunity to access the foreign markets. 2.Globalisation enabled greater access to technological advancements in agriculture. 3. Foreign investment in agriculture in food processing, cold storage and contract farming have helped farmers. 4.  It has empowered the farmers to understand, reach out and compete in global markets 5. It has  helped to change the agrarian society’s attitudes towards new technologies in farming.  Negative Impacts:  1. At present Multi National Companies of other nations of the world has captured the Indian markets making farmers dependent on the expensive high yield seeds and fertilizers. 2.Attraction of global market resulted in farmers shifting from traditional or mixed cropping to unsustainable cropping practices which leads to the problem of depletion in fertlity and ground water table. 3. The competition from cheaper imports pushed dow...

  Special Scheme for 2021-22 A.      Academic session to be divided into 2 Terms with approximately 50% syllabus in each term: The syllabus for the Academic session 2021-22 will be divided into 2 terms by following a systematic approach by looking into the interconnectivity of concepts and topics by the Subject Experts and the Board will conduct examinations at the end of each term on the basis of the bifurcated syllabus. This is done to increase the probability of having a Board conducted classes X and XII examinations at the end of the academic session. B.      The syllabus for the Board examination 2021-22 will be rationalized similar to that of the last academic session to be notified in July 2021. For academic transactions, however, schools will follow the curriculum and syllabus released by the Board vide Circular no. F.1001/CBSE- Acad/Curriculum/2021 dated 31 March 2021. Schools will also use alternativ...

 1. Write four points to stress the importance of agriculture in India.  2. Why do farming practices vary in different regions? Give three major reasons. 3. What factors does primitive subsistence farming depend on? 4. Write main characteristics of ‘slash and burn’ agriculture. 5. Compare ‘intensive subsistence farming’ with that of ‘commercial farming’ practiced in India. 6. Give an example of a crop which is commercial in one region and provides subsistence in another.  7. Name one horticultural plantation crop and two beverage plantation crops and two States each which specialise in their production respectively. 8. Name three cropping seasons of India. Write their sowing and harvesting time and major crops of each season. 9. Where are rabi crops mainly grown? Describe the climatic conditions required for their growth. 10. Name three states which raise three paddy crops in a year. Name these crops also. RICE 11. (a) Which is the most important food crop of India? What...

 

 1. Name the sector in which the government owns most of the assets and provides all the services. 2. Explain how public sector contributes to the economic development of a nation. 3. Why is NREGA also called the Right to work? Explain the objectives of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005.  4. With the example of sugarcane, explain the interdependence of all the three sectors of the economy. 5. The problem of underemployment is not confined only to agriculture”. Support the statement with examples. 6. What are final goods and intermediate goods? How do they help in calculating (GDP) Gross Domestic Product? 7. Explain any three ways to solve the problem of underemployment 8. Why didn’t shift out of primary sector happen in case of employment although there has been a change in the share of the three sectors in GDP? 9. Classify the economic sectors on the basis of nature of activities. Mention the main feature of each. 10. What is meant by Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...