A. Poor distribution of agricultural products
B. extensive river systems
C. location between two major oceans
D. rainforest environment
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Agriculture contributes about ________ to the GDP?
A. 25%
B. 55%
C. 15%
D. 35% - Forests and rangelands support 30 million herds of livestock. How much amount this livestock contributes to Pakistan’s annual export earnings ?
A. $500 million
B. $350 million
C. $400 million
D. $300 million - According to the factor price equalization theorem, the ________ factor should oppose free. trade policies in any given country?
A. abundant
B. scarce
C. neither
D. can’t tell without more information - Which factor of production in the United States is most likely to be made worse off (its factor payment will decrease) because of the North American Free Trade Agreement ?
A. Capital
B. land
C. skilled labor
D. unskilled labor - If a factor exhibits diminishing marginal product, hiring additional units of the factor will ?
A. cause a reduction is output
B. have no effect on output
C. increase the marginal product of the factor
D. generate ever smaller amounts of output - Holding all factors constant except one and increasing a variable factor is expected to lead to steadily decreased marginal product of that factor, this is an example of ?
A. decreasing returns to scale
B. The law of diminishing returns
C. constant returns to scale
D. an inefficient production technique
