1. Agriculture contributes about ______ of Pakistan's GDP.
Answer: C. 19.2 percent
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2. Agriculture employs about ______ of the labour force.
Answer: A. 38.5 percent
3. The backbone of Pakistan's economy is
Answer: B. agriculture
4. Cotton supplies raw material to the
Answer: D. textile industry
5. Sugarcane supplies raw material to the
Answer: B. sugar industry
6. Using tractors instead of ploughs is called
Answer: C. mechanization
7. Subsistence farming mainly produces food for
Answer: D. the family
8. Subsistence farms are smaller than
Answer: A. 12.5 acres
9. A cash crop is grown mainly for
Answer: D. sale and profit
10. Which is a Kharif crop?
Answer: B. Rice
11. Which is a Rabi crop?
Answer: C. Wheat
12. Kharif crops are sown from
Answer: A. April to October
13. Rabi crops are harvested in
Answer: D. February to March
14. Wheat is sown in
Answer: B. October to November
15. The ideal temperature for wheat is
Answer: C. 10 to 20 C
16. Which province produces over 70 percent of Pakistan's wheat?
Answer: A. Punjab
17. Which is a wheat variety of Pakistan?
Answer: D. Maxi Pak
18. Rice seedlings are transplanted from a seedbed after
Answer: B. 3 to 4 weeks
19. Rice is grown in
Answer: A. flooded fields
20. Rice is harvested after about
Answer: C. 3 to 4 months
21. Cotton grows best at
Answer: D. 25 to 35 C
22. A pest of cotton is the
Answer: A. pink bollworm
23. The ideal temperature for sugarcane is
Answer: C. 20 to 30 C
24. Sugarcane is planted using
Answer: B. stalk cuttings
25. Maize is used for corn flour and
Answer: D. animal feed
26. Flue Cured Virginia tobacco is mostly from
Answer: C. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
27. Pakistan's fruit production ranks
Answer: A. fifth in the world
28. Hunza and Swat are known for
Answer: B. apples and apricots
29. A problem of Pakistan's agriculture is
Answer: A. water scarcity
30. Converting farmland into housing schemes causes
Answer: C. shrinking arable land
31. Crop rotation helps to improve
Answer: D. soil fertility
32. Livestock contributes about ______ of GDP.
Answer: B. 11 percent
33. In Balochistan, about ______ of people are linked to livestock.
Answer: B. 70 percent
34. The Baloch and Pashtun tribes practise ______ livestock farming.
Answer: C. nomadic
35. The Gujjar and Bakarwal tribes practise
Answer: D. transhumance
36. Settled livestock farming is mostly in
Answer: A. Punjab and Sindh
37. Livestock provides raw material for the leather and ______ industries.
Answer: C. carpet
38. Fisheries give about ______ of GDP.
Answer: A. 1 percent
39. The fishing sector employs over
Answer: D. 2 million people
40. The main fishing ports of Sindh are Karachi and
Answer: B. Korangi
41. Which is a fishing port on the Makran coast?
Answer: C. Ormara
42. The biggest threat to the fishing industry is
Answer: D. overfishing
43. Fish farming in controlled ponds is called
Answer: A. aquaculture
44. A fishing method of commercial marine fishing is
Answer: B. trawling
About Pakistan Studies Class 9 Unit 8 MCQs (Federal Board)
These 44 Pakistan Studies MCQs cover Class 9 Unit 8: Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Federal Board (FBISE) SSC-I (Class 9) syllabus. They are SLO-based MCQs as per the new pattern for FBISE exams. Each question has four options and the correct answer is shown, so you can practise for the annual examination and find the topics you still need to revise. You can also read the Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries notes for this chapter. Download the Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries MCQs as a PDF using the button at the top of this page.