The clear October skies are beneficial to the cotton plant.

1. Sunny skies and no rainfall help in the flowering.
2. Sunny skies help in ripening and bursting of cotton bolls.
3. Sunny skies make harvesting expensive
4. All of the above.

Which soils are ideal for cotton cultivation?

1. Deltaic alluvial soils of West Bengal.
2. Black soils of the Deccan and Malwa Plateaus
3. Alluvial Soils of the Coastal regions.
4. All of the above.

Assertion (A): The cotton crop is harvested in three to four pickings as the bolls mature.

Reason (R): Yield of cotton decreases with successive pickings.

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
2. Both A and R are true but R does not explain A.
3. A is true but R is false.
4. A is false but R is true.

Tejas has a farm in Gujarat. He uses terminology such as lint, ginning and sliver. What do you think he cultivates?

1. Jute
2. Cotton
3. Silk
4. Coffee