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Study the following… (Class 12 Economics SQP 2023-24, Q21)

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EconomicsCBSE Class 12 · Sample paper, session 2023-24 · 1 mark · MCQ

CBSE Class 12 Economics sample paper 2023-24: question 21

From the official CBSE sample question paper for 2023-24, section B, question 21, for 1 mark. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q21 · 1 mark · MCQCompetency-basedRural Development

Study the following picture and answer the given question:
Women in rural households take up bee-keeping as an entrepreneurial activity. Such kind of activities may be envisaged under _________ as diversification activity.
(Choose the correct alternative to fill up the blank)

  1. (A)Animal husbandry
  2. (B)Fisheries
  3. (C)Horticulture
  4. (D)Poultry

Figure in the paper: Illustration of rural women gathered around a bee-keeping box (beehive) under a tree, with a woman handling the hive frames. See it in the official paper.

Source: official sample paper from cbseacademic.nic.in (PDF). See it in the full Sample paper 2023-24.

Hints

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

Hint 1

Which activity deals with fruits, flowers and plants?

Hint 2

Bees help which crops?

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. Bee-keeping (apiculture) supports fruit and flower crops through pollination and is promoted under horticulture programmes.

  2. Such women-led activity is a diversification activity under horticulture. Option (C).

    1 mark

Answer: (C) Horticulture

Where the marks are

  • Bee-keeping as a horticulture-linked activity (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: Rural Development (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Rural Development, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paperSample paper 2023-24: every question, by section.

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