'Truck farming' is associated with
- (a)Vegetables
- (b)Milk
- (c)Cereals
- (d)Poultry
Correct — A, Vegetables. Truck farming (also called market gardening) is the intensive commercial cultivation of vegetables and some fruits on farms located close to large urban markets, so the highly perishable produce can be quickly 'trucked' to city consumers while fresh. It is labour- and capital-intensive, using irrigation and fertiliser heavily on relatively small plots — the opposite of extensive grain farming.
- (b)Milk — Milk production is dairy farming, a distinct type of commercial livestock farming, not truck farming.
- (c)Cereals — Cereal cultivation on a commercial scale is extensive commercial grain farming (e.g. wheat farming on the North American Prairies or Russian Steppes) — large, mechanised, low-labour farms, the opposite profile of truck farming.
- (d)Poultry — Poultry rearing is a form of commercial livestock/poultry farming, unrelated to the vegetable-focused truck-farming category.
Truck farming (market gardening) is one of the standard types of commercial farming taught alongside extensive grain farming, mixed farming and plantation agriculture. It is defined by growing vegetables (and some fruit) intensively on small holdings near cities, so produce reaches markets quickly while still fresh — the name comes from the 'trucking' (transporting) of the harvest to nearby urban markets.
Exams commonly test the 'type of farming ↔ produce' link — truck farming/vegetables, viticulture/grapes, sericulture/silk, apiculture/honey, floriculture/flowers, pisciculture/fish — so recognising the term quickly is the whole trick.
- Truck farming = intensive commercial cultivation of vegetables (and some fruit) for urban markets
- Named for 'trucking' — quick transport of perishable produce to nearby city markets
- Small landholdings, high labour and capital input, heavy use of irrigation and fertiliser
- Contrasts with extensive commercial grain farming, which uses large, mechanised, low-labour farms for cereals
- Confusing 'truck farming' with the trucking/transport industry itself rather than the produce it moves
- Assuming the term refers to using trucks/tractors as farm machinery
A recurring 'this type of farming is associated with which produce' one-liner — commonly paired with viticulture (grapes), sericulture (silk) and apiculture (honey) as distractor bait.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Viticulture refers to the commercial cultivation of:
- (a)Grapes
- (b)Vegetables
- (c)Silk-producing insects
- (d)Flowers
Answer(a) Grapes.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which type of commercial farming involves intensive vegetable cultivation on small holdings near cities for quick sale?
- (a)Truck farming
- (b)Extensive commercial grain farming
- (c)Plantation farming
- (d)Nomadic herding
Answer(a) Truck farming.