Geography
Sugarcane is not a plantation crop. What does this mean for the sugar industry?
- It is cultivated by farmers in small fields.
- In the absence of sugar mills near the field the sugar output is lowered.
- Supply to the sugar industry is irregular.
- All of the above.
Related Questions
Assertion (A): There is excessive pressure on sugar factories during harvest time.
Reason (R): About the entire crop of sugarcane is harvested at the same time.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
- Both A and R are true but R does not explain A.
- A is true but R is false.
- A is false but R is true.
Name the by-product of sugar industry used for making wax, carbon paper and shoe polish.
- Press mud
- Molasses
- Bagasse
- Khandsari
Assertion (A): Mumbai and Ahmedabad have emerged as important cotton manufacturing centres.
Reason (R): They fulfil all requirements of the industry.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
- Both A and R are true but R does not explain A.
- A is true but R is false.
- A is false but R is true.
Which of the following cities account for nearly half of India's cotton mill cloth manufactured?
- Jaipur and Kanpur
- Ahmedabad and Mumbai
- Coimbatore and Chennai
- Panipat and Kolkata