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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2023, set 32/1/1 · 2 marks · Very short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2023: question 22

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2023, paper 32/1/1, section B, question 22, for 2 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q22 · 2 marks · Very short answerAgriculture

Mention any two features of Plantation agriculture.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2023 board paper, set 32/1/1.

Hints

Open one hint at a time and try again before the next.

Hint 1

Think of tea and coffee estates.

Hint 2

How many crops are grown on a plantation?

Hint 3

Where does the produce go?

Step-by-step solution

Each step shows the marks it earns, as an examiner would award them. Checked by an independent re-solve from the question paper.

  1. A single crop is grown over a large area (e.g. tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, banana).

    1 mark

  2. It uses capital-intensive inputs and migrant labour, and the produce is raw material for industry, so it links agriculture and industry (e.g. tea in Assam, coffee in Karnataka).

    1 mark

Answer: Single crop on large estates; capital-intensive, linked to industry.

Where the marks are

  • One feature, e.g. single crop on a large area (1 mark)
  • Second feature, e.g. capital-intensive inputs, migrant labour or agro-industry link (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: Agriculture (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Agriculture, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2023 board paper, set 32/1/1: every question, by section.

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