Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Economics

Chapter

Indian Economic Development: Indian Economy on the Eve of Independence

Question:

What was the overall investment in infrastructure for India's agriculture under colonial rule?

Options:

Significant investment in terracing, flood-control, and drainage

No investment in irrigation facilities

Negligible investment in terracing, flood-control, and drainage

Zero investment in desalinization of soil

Correct Answer:

Negligible investment in terracing, flood-control, and drainage

Explanation:

Despite some progress made in irrigation during colonial era, India’s agriculture was starved of investment in terracing, flood-control, drainage and desalinisation of soil. While a small section of farmers changed their cropping pattern from food crops to commercial crops, a large section of tenants, small farmers and sharecroppers neither had resources and technology nor had incentive to invest in agriculure.