Food crops cover about ___ of cropped areas?

Related Mcqs:

1. Cash crops cover nearly _______ of the cropped areas?

   A. 25%
   B. 55%
   C. 15%
   D. 35%

2. If the economy is in the recessionary phase of the business cycle, aggregate demand ___ unemployment ____ inflation ___ and the current account of the balance of payments is likely to move towards ____?

   A. falls; falls; falls; surplus
   B. is static; low; rises; deficit
   C. falls; rises; falls; surplus
   D. rises; falls; rises; deficit

3. Which scholar argues the following Plantations have no significant advantage over peasants [for] crops for which centralized processing and marketing are not necessary Cocoa and coconuts are typical examples of a lack of large scale economies Peasants can grow and process these crops in small lots with no large capital requirement beyond small indigenous tools and facilities ?

   A. Yujiro Hayami
   B. Raanan Weitz
   C. Hans Singer
   D. Tim Dyson

4. Which index combines measures of calorie availability (in relation to requirement) the growth of per capita daily energy supply food production food staples self-sufficiency, and variability of food production and consumption ?

   A. food sufficiency index
   B. food security index
   C. food self-intake index
   D. food growth index

5. In food demand growth equation D = Φ + a E, a is the income elasticity of demand for food E is the per capita income growth and Φ is ?

   A. Poverty rates
   B. food security index
   C. change in the quantity of food demanded per capita
   D. population growth

6. If consumers always spend 15 percent of their income on food. then the income elasticity of demand for food is ?

   A. 1.50
   B. 1.15
   C. none of these
   D. 0.15
   E. 1.00

7. The U.S real food aid, as well as food reserves dropped from the 1960s to the 1980s partly because ?

   A. the transportation and storage cost increased tremendously
   B. proponents of basic-needs attainment opposed food-aid
   C. U.S farm interests wanted to reduce surplus grain stocks
   D. agricultural production suffered excessively due to weather changes

8. If VAT rates rise, then costs are likely to ___ and demand is likely to ____?

   A. rise; rise
   B. rise; fall
   C. fall; fall
   D. fall; rise

9. In the UK, electricity industry parts are a ____ and other parts are ___ ?

   A. nationalized; privatized
   B. natural monopoly; potentially competitive
   C. cartel; a sellers’ market
   D. monopolistic competition duopoly

10. Continent of South America covers ___ of the total land of earth ?

    A. 15.8%
    B. 11.8%
    C. 10.8%
    D. 15.4%