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Tea and Rubber

📆 March 5, 2025

Tea and Rubber 

Total Questions: 19

11. In India, the state which produced the largest amount of rubber (2013) is: [U.P.P.C.S. (mains ) (2014)]

Correct Answer: (d) Kerala
Solution:The largest producer of rubber in India is Kerala.75.68% of total rubber production in India is produced by Kerala as per 2018-19 (p) data. Emakulam, Kottayam, Kozhikode and Kollam are the major rubber producing districts of Kerala. According to data for the year 2022(FAO), India placed 5th in the world in terms of natural rubber in primary forms production.

12. Which of the following states in India is famous for rubber cultivation? [Uttarakhand P.C.S.(Pre) 2012]

Correct Answer: (d) Kerala
Solution:The largest producer of rubber in India is Kerala.75.68% of total rubber production in India is produced by Kerala as per 2018-19 (p) data. Emakulam, Kottayam, Kozhikode and Kollam are the major rubber producing districts of Kerala. According to data for the year 2022(FAO), India placed 5th in the world in terms of natural rubber in primary forms production.

13. Which among the following is the largest rubber-producing state in India? [U.P.S.C. (R.I) (2014)]

Correct Answer: (c) Kerala
Solution:The largest producer of rubber in India is Kerala.75.68% of total rubber production in India is produced by Kerala as per 2018-19 (p) data. Emakulam, Kottayam, Kozhikode and Kollam are the major rubber producing districts of Kerala. According to data for the year 2022(FAO), India placed 5th in the world in terms of natural rubber in primary forms production.

14. Which one of the following is correctly matched? [U.P.S.C. (pre) (2022)]

Correct Answer: (d) Kerala - Rubber
Solution:Kerala is the largest rubber producing state in India. Kerala is a correctly match for rubber.

15. Which of the following is a stimulus crop? [U.P.P.S.C. (GIC) 2017]

Correct Answer: (d) Tea
Solution:The stimulating crops include tea, coffee, tobacco, opium, poppy, datura, hemp and betel nut etc. while wheat is Rabi cropand maize and arhar are Kharif Crops.

16. With reference to the "Tea board" in India, consider the following statements [I.A.S. (Pre) 2022]

1. The Tea board is a statutory body.

2. It is a regulatory body attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

3. The Tea board's Head Office is situated in Bengaluru.

4. The board has overseas offices at Dubai and Moscow.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Correct Answer: (d) 1 and 4
Solution:Tea is one of the industries, which by Act of Parliament comes under the control of the Union Govt. The genesis of the Tea Board India dates back to 1903 when the Indian Tea Cess Bill was passed. The Bill provided for levying a cess on tea exports the proceeds of which were to be used for the promotion of Indian tea both within and outside India. The present Tea Board set up under section 4 of the Tea Act 1953 was constituted on 1" April 1954. Significantly this body comes under the Ministry of commerce and Indust, GOI. It is headquartered in Kolkata. It is worth mentioning here that, in the time of question the board had overseas offices at Dubai and Moscow. Currently Tea Board has one office located at Moscow

17. Consider the following States: [I.A.S. (pre) 2022]

1.  Andhra Pradesh            2. Kerala

3. Himachal Pradesh         4. Tripura

How many of the above are generally known as tea-producing States?

Correct Answer: (c) Only three States
Solution:Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are the major tea producing (in 2022-23) states of India. Tea is cultivated on a small scale in Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Sikkim, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Bihar and Odisha.

18. India is the best producer and consumer of [39th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 1994]

Correct Answer: (d) Pulses
Solution:During the time when this question was asked India was leading in production and consumption of pulses and tea. According to the data released by F.A.O, in 2022, India came down to the second position in production of tea leaves. But in terms of production and consumption of pulses from the time of the question to present, India is still maintaining its first position. It is notable that the consumption of pulses in India is so high that even being the largest producer of pulses in the world, India still imports pulses from other countries.

19. Assertion (A) : India is a major tea exporter country. [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2007]

Reason (R) : Domestic consumption of tea in India is very poor.

Select the correct answer from the code given below:

Correct Answer: (c) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
Solution:Option (c) was the correct answer when this question was asked. According to figure of year 2022 top tea exporting countries are: 1. Kenya, 2. China, 3. Sri Lanka, 4. India.
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