Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

Fundamentals of Human Geography: Secondary Activities

Question:

Which of the following is an example of agri-business on industrial scale and considered as a secondary activity?

Options:

Rice cropping

Wheat cultivation

Tea planation and processing

Cultivation of pulses

Correct Answer:

Tea planation and processing

Explanation:

Agri-business is commercial farming on an industrial scale often financed by business whose main interests lie outside agriculture, for example, large corporations in tea plantation business. Agri-business farms are mechanised, large in size, highly structured, reliant on chemicals, and may be described as ‘agro-factories’.