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EconomicsCBSE Class 12 · Sample paper, session 2025-26 · 1 mark · MCQ

CBSE Class 12 Economics sample paper 2025-26: question 25

From the official CBSE sample question paper for 2025-26, section B, question 25, for 1 mark. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q25 · 1 mark · MCQRural Development

From the set of terms given in Column I and corresponding facts given in Column II, choose the correct pair of statements:

Column IColumn II
(a) Animal HusbandryiInstability in income
(b) FisheriesiiMixed crop-livestock farming system
(c) HorticultureiiiIndia is the second-largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world
(d) Agro-processing industryivIron and steel industry
  1. (A)(a)-i
  2. (B)(b)-ii
  3. (C)(c)-iii
  4. (D)(d)-iv

Source: official sample paper from cbseacademic.nic.in (PDF). See it in the full Sample paper 2025-26.

Hints

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

Hint 1

Which activity covers fruits and vegetables?

Hint 2

Livestock usually stabilises farm income.

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. Animal husbandry gives stability of income (not instability) and fisheries is not the mixed crop-livestock system; agro-processing has nothing to do with iron and steel.

  2. India is the second-largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world, which is a fact about horticulture: (c)-iii is the correct pair. Option (C).

    1 mark

Answer: (C) (c)-iii

Where the marks are

  • Horticulture: India second-largest producer of fruits and vegetables (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: Rural Development (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)

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