Match List-I with List-II
List-I (Agricultural Land use Category) | List-II (Characteristics) |
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(A) Culturable Waste Land | (II) Land which has been left uncultivated for more than five years. |
(B) Current Fallow | (I) Land which has been left uncultivated for one or less than one agricultural year. |
(C) Fallow other than Current Fallow | (IV) Land which has been left uncultivated for more than one year but less than five years. |
(D) Net Sown Area | (III) Physical extent of land on which crops are sown and harvested. |
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Match the followings:
List-I (Seaports) | List-II (State) |
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(A) Kandla | (I) Goa |
(B) Haldia | (II) Odisha |
(C) Marmagao | (III) West Bengal |
(D) Paradwip | (IV) Gujarat |
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Trade is essentially the buying and selling of items produced elsewhere. All the services in retail and wholesale trading or commerce are specifically intended for profit. The towns and cities where all these works take place are known as trading centres. The rise of trading from barter at the local level to money-exchange on an international scale has produced many centres and institutions, such as trading centres or collection and distribution points.
Trading centres may be divided into rural and urban marketing centres. Rural marketing centres cater to nearby settlements. These are quasi-urban centres. They serve as trading centres of the most rudimentary type. Here, personal and professional services are not well-developed. These form local collecting and distributing centres. Most of these have mandis (wholesale markets) and also retailing areas. They are not urban centres per se but are significant centres for making available goods and services which are most frequently demanded by rural folk.
Periodic markets in rural areas are found where there are no regular markets and local periodic markets are organised at different temporal intervals. These may be weekly, bi-weekly markets where people from the surrounding areas meet their temporally accumulated demand. These markets are held on specified dates and move from one place to another. The shopkeepers, thus, remain busy all day while a large area is served by them.
Urban marketing centres have more widely specialised urban services. They provide ordinary goods and services as well as many of the specialised goods and services required by people. Ur- ban centres, therefore, offer manufactured goods as well as many specialised developed markets, e.g. markets for labour, housing, semi-or finished products. Services of educational institutions and professionals such as teachers, lawyers, consultants, physicians, dentists and veterinary doctors are available.
An uneven spatial distribution of the population in India suggests a close relationship between
the population and physical, socio-economic and historical factors. As far as the physical fac-
tors are concerned, it is clear that climate along with the terrain and the availability of water
largely determine the pattern of the population distribution. Consequently, we observe that the
North Indian Plains, deltas and Coastal Plains have a higher proportion of the population than
the interior districts of the southern and central Indian States, the Himalayas, and some of the
north-eastern and western states. However, development of irrigation (Rajasthan), availability
of mineral and energy resources (Jharkhand) and development of transport network (Peninsular
States) have resulted in a moderate to high concentration of population in areas which were
previously very thinly populated.
Among the socio-economic and historical factors of the distribution of population, important
ones are the evolution of settled agriculture and agricultural development; the pattern of hu-
man settlement; development of transport networks, industrialisation and urbanisation. It is
observed that the regions falling in the river plains and coastal areas of India have remained
the regions of larger population concentration. Even though the use of natural resources like
land and water in these regions has shown the sign of degradation, the concentration of the
population remains high because of the early history of human settlement and the development
of transport networks. On the other hand, the urban regions of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ben-
galuru, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai and Jaipur have high concentrations of population due to
industrial development and urbanisation, drawing large numbers of rural-urban migrants.