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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2025, set 32/6/1 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2025: question 27

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2025, paper 32/6/1, section C, question 27, for 3 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q27 · 3 marks · Short answerAgriculture

Explain any three features of Plantation Agriculture.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2025 board paper, set 32/6/1.

Hints

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

Hint 1

How many crops are grown on a plantation?

Hint 2

Think of where tea or rubber goes after harvest.

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 on a large area, covering vast tracts of land.

    1 mark

  2. It is capital intensive, using large investment and often migrant labour. It forms an interface between agriculture and industry.

    1 mark

  3. All the produce is used as raw material in related industries. Tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane and banana are important plantation crops in India.

    1 mark

Answer: Plantation agriculture: single crop on large area, capital intensive, link between agriculture and industry, produce used as industrial raw material.

Where the marks are

  • Single crop on large tracts (1 mark)
  • Capital intensive inputs / agriculture-industry interface (1 mark)
  • Produce used as industrial raw material, with examples (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 paper2025 board paper, set 32/6/1: every question, by section.

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