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UPSC Prelims 2010 · Agriculture · Crops and Where They Grow
In India, during the last decade the total cultivated land for which one of the following crops has remained more or less stagnant?
- (a) Rice
- (b) Oil seeds
- (c) Pulses
- (d) Sugarcane
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: (c) Pulses
Pulse area stayed around 22–23 million ha through the decade.
Why the others are wrong
(a) Rice area has been fairly large and stable, but it was not the stagnant one in the question’s period.
(b) Oilseed area grew with soybean.
(d) Sugarcane area rose and fell with prices.
The trap
None.
🔒 Pulses area was stagnant for decades; output rose only after 2016 (NFSM push).
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