Question

India needs well-developed irrigation facilities in place because:

1. We are largely an agricultural country with a lot of demand for agricultural produce.
2. Rainfall is uncertain and unevenly distributed.
3. All our export earnings come from the agricultural sector.
4. 95% of the working population is directly employed in the agricultural sector.

Options

• 1 and 2

• 1 and 3

• 2 and 4

• 1 and 4

Answer 1

1 and 2

Explanation:

India requires well-developed irrigation infrastructure since it is a mainly agricultural nation with a massive, expanding domestic demand for food crops, and its natural tropical monsoon rainfall is very variable, unpredictable, and unevenly distributed across different regions and seasons.