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The fact that there is greater risk in depending exclusively on farming for livelihood gives rise to ?

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  1. Substitution

  2. Divercification

  3. Imports

  4. Shutdown of agriculture Markets

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Correct Option: B

Agricultural Prosperity is linked with the standard of living of the people. This statement is __________.

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  1. True

  2. False

  3. Partially True

  4. Nothing can be said

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Correct Option: A

Crop Failure leads to reduced supply and increased prices of food products, thereby affecting ______________.

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  1. cost of living

  2. standard of living

  3. both (a) and (b)

  4. neither (a) nor (b)

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Correct Option: C

There will be a __________ demand for industrial and consumer goods in rural areas, in case of prosperity in agriculture. 

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  1. low

  2. moderate

  3. high

  4. can't be determined

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Correct Option: C

More people employed in Agriculture leads to _____________.

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  1. employment opportunity in rural areas

  2. avoidance of Urban Congestion and Urban Pollution

  3. eeduction in Rural Brain Drain

  4. all of the above

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Correct Option: D

Which of the following is not considered as a parameter for defining the Below Poverty Line (BPL) status of a person?

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  1. Food security

  2. Marital Status

  3. Debt

  4. Literacy

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Correct Option: B

Which of the following statements relating to poverty in India are correct?
$1$. The concept of poverty line is helpful in assessing the extent of absolute poverty in the country.
$2$. Poverty line helps us to assess relative as well as absolute poverty.
$3$. Poverty line should change with changes in the price level.
$4$. Relative poverty can exist even in the absence of absolute poverty.
Select the correct answer using the codes given.

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  1. $1, 3$ and $4$

  2. $1$ and $4$

  3. $2$ and $3$

  4. $2, 3$ and $4$

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In India, the concept of poverty line is helpful in assessing the extent of absolute poverty in the country. Poverty line should also change with variation in price level but there is no relation between absolute and relative poverty. Relative poverty, when we speak in terms of relatively poor or rich, we make pairwise comparison. Person A may be poorer than or richer than or equal to person B by the scale of criterion(say income) which we take into account for comparison, call it relative poverty or inequality.

Prior to Census $2011$, in which of the following censuses was the highest sex ratio recorded in India?

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  1. Census $1971$

  2. Census $1961$

  3. Census $1951$

  4. Census $1941$

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Correct Option: B

Poverty lines are expressed in terms of overall _______________.

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  1. Per capita income

  2. Per capita consumption expenditure

  3. Per capita entertainment expenditure

  4. Per capita development expenditure

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Correct Option: A

Subsistence farming means _____________.

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  1. cultivation of cash corps

  2. production of food crops just enough for self-consumption

  3. dependence on rainfall for irrigation

  4. production primarily with the motive to sell

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In subsistence fanning, a farmer mainly produces those crops which are required to meet the most immediate needs of himself and his family. These are primarily food crops, and to some extent non-food crops like cotton, sugarcane etc.