Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

Fundamentals of Human Geography: Primary Activities

Question:

Which one of the following is NOT a plantation crop?

Options:

Coffee

Wheat

Sugarcane

Rubber

Correct Answer:

Wheat

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Wheat

  • Plantation agriculture was introduced by the Europeans in colonies situated in the tropics.
  • Some of the important plantation crops are tea, coffee, cocoa, rubber, cotton, oil palm, sugarcane, bananas and pineapples.
  • The characteristic features of this type of farming are large estates or plantations, large capital investment, managerial and technical support, scientific methods of cultivation, single crop specialisation, cheap labour, and a good system of transportation which links the estates to the factories and markets for the export of the products.

Wheat is Not a plantation crop.