Agricultural Economics Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Women make up about 37% of agricultural workers.

The Census of 2011 counted about 263 million agricultural workers: around 118.8 million cultivators and 144.3 million agricultural labourers. Of these, about 36 million cultivators and 61.6 million labourers were women, roughly 98 million in all.

\[ \frac{98}{263} \times 100 \approx 37\% \]

20% understates women's role, and 47% and 50% overstate it. The figures also show that most women in agriculture work as labourers rather than as cultivators.

Answer: B

The price of an agricultural input is mainly determined by demand and supply in the market.

In a market economy the price of inputs such as seed, labour, machinery and most fertilisers settles where the quantity demanded by farmers matches the quantity supplied by producers and traders. A rise in demand at sowing time, or a fall in supply, pushes the price up.

Government intervention, such as fertiliser subsidies, and international trade policies can shift prices, but they act through supply and demand rather than replacing it, so 'only' makes the first option wrong. Farm size affects how much a farmer buys, not the market price of the input.

Answer: D

The answer is All of the above.

Each statement is a real constraint on Tripura's agriculture. About two-thirds of the state is hilly, which limits the area that can be cultivated and irrigated. Forests cover about 60 percent of the geographical area. And about 96 percent of the land holdings are small and marginal, which makes mechanisation and investment difficult.

Together they explain the small net sown area and low productivity, so naming any one of them alone is incomplete.