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UPSC Prelims 2014 · Agriculture · Crops and Where They Grow
Consider the following pairs: Region : Well-known for the production of Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?
- Kinnaur : Areca nut
- Mewat : Mango
- Coromandel : Soya bean
- (a) 1 and 2 only
- (b) 3 only
- (c) 1, 2 and 3
- (d) None
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: (d) None
None of the pairs match.
Statement by statement
1. ✗ WRONG Kinnaur (Himachal) is famous for apples, not areca nut.
2. ✗ WRONG Mewat (Haryana–Rajasthan) is a dry region — not a mango belt.
3. ✗ WRONG The Coromandel coast grows rice and groundnut; soybean is a Madhya Pradesh crop.
Why the others are wrong
(a) Accepts two wrong pairs.
(b) Accepts soybean on the Coromandel coast.
(c) Accepts all three.
The trap
Each place is real; each crop is from somewhere else.
🔒 Kinnaur = apples · areca = Karnataka/Kerala · soybean = MP (“soya state”).
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