Chapter 12: Improvement in Food Resources

To meet the food demand for the growing population

Intensive cultivation of already available land

Green Revolution

<p>Increase the availability of milk</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>More than a quarter of a billion tonnes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Plants and animals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The detrimental impact of agricultural revolutions on natural resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To prevent the imbalance and destruction of natural resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It cannot fully solve the problem of malnutrition and hunger</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both availability of food and access to it</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Undertaking mixed farming and intercropping practices</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By undertaking mixed farming and integrated farming practices</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mixed farming, intercropping, and integrated farming practices</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To meet the food demand for the growing population and to combat scarcity of food resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals, which are essential for body development, growth, and health.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The green revolution contributed to increased food-grain production.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>More than a quarter of a billion tonnes of grain every year.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>India is already intensively cultivated, leaving limited scope for expanding the land under cultivation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The white revolution has led to better and more efficient use as well as availability of milk.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Choice of seeds for planting, nurturing of the crop plants, and...</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Paddy, soyabean, pigeon pea, maize, cotton, green gram, and black gram</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cereals such as wheat, rice, maize, millets, and sorghum</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mixed farming, intercropping, and integrated farming practices</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Four times increase in production with only 25% increase in cultivable land area</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wheat, gram, peas, mustard, and linseed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As food for the livestock</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Oil seeds provide necessary fats</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They provide a range of vitamins and minerals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>From the month of June to October</p> Signup and view all the answers