O Level Geography of Pakistan chapter 4: Agricultural development MCQs with answers
By Team Megalecture · Updated 4 Nov 2026
44 exam-style questions on Agricultural development, each with the answer and a short explanation. Ten of them are below to try. The chapter test draws ten fresh questions each time and is marked the moment you finish, with your score by topic.
Factors affecting production and irrigation18 questions
Ten Agricultural development questions with answers
Try each one, then open the answer. These ten stay the same; the test draws new ones every time.
1. Why are yields on many small subsistence farms low?
A
farmers cannot afford fertiliser and good seed
B
they use too much heavy machinery on their small fields
C
they sell too much of the crop for export
D
they receive too much canal water
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Answer: A. With little capital, subsistence farmers use their own saved seed, little fertiliser and traditional methods, so outputs are small. Machinery and export sales are features of large commercial farms.
2. Which fruit is grown mainly in the valleys around Quetta and Pishin and in Swat, where winters are cold?
A
dates
B
bananas
C
apples
D
mangoes
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Answer: C. Apple trees need a cold winter rest, which these high valleys provide. Mangoes, bananas and dates need hot conditions and are grown in the plains.
3. Which is a major cause of waterlogging in the canal-irrigated areas of Punjab and Sindh?
A
seepage from unlined canals and over-irrigation
B
heavy pumping of groundwater by many tubewells
C
planting rows of eucalyptus trees along the canal banks
D
a long period of drought
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Answer: A. Water leaking through unlined canal beds and excess irrigation raise the water table until the soil around plant roots is saturated. Tubewell pumping and eucalyptus trees help to lower it.
4. What is the main use of wheat in Pakistan?
A
making cloth and yarn for textiles
B
flour for chapatis and bread
C
making cooking oil
D
making sugar and gur
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Answer: B. Wheat is the staple food, ground into atta for roti and chapatis. Its straw (bhusa) is an important animal fodder.
5. Which product of cattle and buffalo is the main raw material of the leather industry?
A
hides
B
ghee
C
milk
D
wool
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Answer: A. Hides are tanned into leather for shoes, jackets and sports goods. Wool comes from sheep, and milk and ghee are dairy products.
6. Why are many farm holdings in Pakistan small and split into scattered plots?
A
large farms are not allowed to use canal water
B
the government allows each farmer to own only one acre
C
floods regularly wash away the field boundaries
D
land is divided among the heirs when an owner dies
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Answer: D. Through inheritance, land is shared among children over several generations, so holdings shrink and become fragmented. Small, scattered plots make machinery and irrigation hard to use efficiently.
7. On a small farm, dung from buffaloes and cattle is dried for fuel or spread on the fields. How is dung best described in the farm system?
A
a process that turns fodder into milk and meat
B
a physical input such as rainfall
C
a waste product with no further use
D
an output that can be used again as an input
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Answer: D. Dung is produced by the animals, so it is an output, but used as manure or fuel it becomes an input again. It is far from useless waste.
8. How does salinity develop on waterlogged land in the hot plains?
A
salt blows in from the sea during cyclones
B
water rises to the surface and evaporates, leaving salt
C
fertiliser turns into salt when it mixes with canal water
D
sea water flows inland along the irrigation canals
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Answer: B. When the water table is high, water moves up through the soil to the surface; in the heat it evaporates, and the dissolved salts are left as a white crust that harms crops.
9. Dates and vegetables are grown in desert oases in Balochistan using karez irrigation. What is a karez?
A
an underground tunnel carrying groundwater from the hills
B
a large reservoir held behind a dam across a river
C
a canal that flows only when the rivers are in flood in summer
D
a well from which an animal-driven wheel lifts the water
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Answer: A. A karez taps water in the rocks at the foot of the mountains and carries it by gravity through a tunnel, with vertical shafts for access; being underground, it loses little water to evaporation. The animal-driven wheel is the Persian wheel.
10. On a small subsistence rice farm in Punjab, why are ploughing, transplanting and harvesting often done by family members using oxen and hand tools?
A
machines can be used only for rabi crops
B
plots are small and there is little money for machines
C
the law forbids the use of machines on small rice farms
D
machines cannot be used in fields covered with water
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Answer: B. Subsistence rice is grown on small, fragmented plots with little capital, so the family does most of the work. This keeps costs low, but yields are often lower than on larger farms.
44, each with the answer and a short explanation, across 3 topics: Agricultural systems, Crops and livestock, Factors affecting production and irrigation. Every chapter test draws ten of them, so you can take it many times.
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How is the chapter test marked?
The moment you press Finish: your score, the right answer and an explanation for every question, and the ones you got wrong saved in My mistakes to retry.
