UPSC Agriculture – Chapter 4: Irrigation and Water-use Efficiency (22 MCQs)
UPSC Agriculture – Chapter 4: Irrigation and Water-use Efficiency (22 MCQs) – 22 questions, subject: Agriculture. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.
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India's Ultimate Irrigation Potential is estimated at about:
Correct Answer: A [140 million hectares]
Explanation:
The Ultimate Irrigation Potential is about 140 million hectares – about 58.5 from major and medium and 81.4 from minor schemes.
A minor irrigation project has a culturable command area of:
Correct Answer: D [less than 2,000 hectares]
Explanation:
By the Planning Commission norms, a project with a culturable command area below 2,000 hectares is classed as minor.
The Command Area Development Programme was renamed Command Area Development and Water Management in:
Correct Answer: C [2004]
Explanation:
The Command Area Development Programme was restructured and renamed CADWM in April 2004, with more focus on water management.
The first State law for Participatory Irrigation Management through Water Users' Associations was passed in 1997 by:
Correct Answer: C [Andhra Pradesh]
Explanation:
Andhra Pradesh's Farmers' Management of Irrigation Systems Act, 1997 was the pioneering law handing canal management to Water Users' Associations.
The Central Ground Water Authority was constituted under:
Correct Answer: B [the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986]
Explanation:
The Central Ground Water Authority was constituted in 1997 under Section 3(3) of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
Gujarat's Jyotigram Yojana (2003) is known for:
Correct Answer: D [separate feeders for farm power]
Explanation:
Jyotigram separated agricultural feeders from village domestic feeders, giving homes round-the-clock power and farms rationed hours.
The Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana was approved in:
Correct Answer: C [2015]
Explanation:
July 2015.
The Micro Irrigation Fund of ₹5,000 crore was set up with:
Correct Answer: A [NABARD]
Explanation:
The ₹5,000 crore Micro Irrigation Fund was created with NABARD in 2018-19 to lend to States for micro-irrigation.
Atal Bhujal Yojana is supported by:
Correct Answer: A [the World Bank]
Explanation:
Half of the ₹6,000 crore Atal Bhujal outlay comes as a World Bank loan, passed on to States as grants.
Consider the following statements about PM-KUSUM:
1. It supports stand-alone solar pumps for farmers.
2. It supports solarisation of existing grid-connected farm pumps.
3. It applies only to farmers in the seven Atal Bhujal States.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: B [1 and 2 only]
Explanation:
Component B funds stand-alone solar pumps and Component C solarises grid-connected pumps; the scheme is not limited to Atal Bhujal States.
Assertion (A): Groundwater tables have fallen sharply in Punjab and Haryana.
Reason (R): Free or flat-rate electricity for farm pumps keeps the marginal cost of pumping close to zero.
Correct Answer: A [Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A]
Explanation:
Both are true: near-zero marginal cost of pumping under free power drives over-extraction, which lowers water tables.
The National Water Mission under the National Action Plan on Climate Change aims to raise water-use efficiency by:
Correct Answer: C [20 per cent]
Explanation:
Increasing water-use efficiency by 20 per cent is a stated goal of the National Water Mission under the NAPCC.
The Mihir Shah Committee (2016) recommended:
Correct Answer: B [a National Water Commission merging the CWC and the CGWB]
Explanation:
The Mihir Shah Committee (2016) proposed merging the CWC and CGWB into a single National Water Commission.
Which of the following States is NOT covered under Atal Bhujal Yojana?
Correct Answer: D [Punjab]
Explanation:
Atal Bhujal covers Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh; Punjab is not among them.
Alternate Wetting and Drying in rice fields mainly helps to:
Correct Answer: D [save water and reduce methane emissions]
Explanation:
Letting rice fields dry between irrigations saves water and cuts methane produced in continuously flooded soil.
The Ministry of Jal Shakti was created in:
Correct Answer: B [2019]
Explanation:
The Ministry of Jal Shakti was formed in 2019 by merging the water resources and drinking water and sanitation ministries.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
1. Atal Bhujal Yojana
2. Command Area Development Programme
3. Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana
4. Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct Answer: C [2-4-3-1]
Explanation:
1974-75, 1996-97, 2015, 2019.
The area actually irrigated from completed irrigation works is called the:
Correct Answer: A [irrigation potential utilised]
Explanation:
Irrigation potential utilised (IPU) is the area actually irrigated, and it lags behind the potential created.
Under the PMKSY, the component that promotes drip and sprinkler irrigation is:
Correct Answer: D [Per Drop More Crop]
Explanation:
Per Drop More Crop promotes drip and sprinkler irrigation to raise water-use efficiency at the farm level.
The 99 priority irrigation projects fast-tracked under PMKSY–AIBP from 2016-17 are funded through:
Correct Answer: A [NABARD's Long Term Irrigation Fund]
Explanation:
Funding for the 99 incomplete projects was arranged through NABARD's Long Term Irrigation Fund.
Which of the following is/are the advantage/advantages of practising drip irrigation?
1. Reduction in weed
2. Reduction in soil salinity
3. Reduction in soil erosion
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
Correct Answer: C [1 and 3 only]
Explanation:
weeds and erosion fall; salinity is not removed by drip.
Consider the following statements:
1. The Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Program was launched during 1996-97 to provide loan assistance to poor farmers.
2. The Command Area Development Program was launched in 1974-75 for the development of water-use efficiency.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: B [2 only]
Explanation:
CADP was launched in 1974-75 to improve water-use efficiency in canal commands; AIBP assisted States, not poor farmers.
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