Question

Haryana belong to which of the following Agro-climatic zone?
1. Western Himalayan Region
2. Lower Gangetic Plain Region
3. Upper Gangetic Plain Region
4. Trans Gangetic Plain Region
5. Middle Gangetic Plain Region

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Trans Gangetic Plain Region

The correct answer is Trans Gangetic Plain Region.

• Haryana belongs to the Trans Gangetic Plain Region Agro-climatic zone.
• Trans Gangetic plain region covers Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan.
• In 1988 the Planning Commission came up with a growth strategy based on a holistic approach of area planning for long-term resource efficiency and sustainability. 
• During the late nineteen eighties, a consensus seemed to have been achieved on the primacy of topography for a regional division of India.
• Based on this notion the Planning Commission proposed 15 agro-climatic zones, these have still existed wide variation in a geographical area, population density, soil types, and crops are grown.
• To increase the degree of homogeneity in agro-climatic factors, these 15 zones were further sub-divided into 73 subzones based on more specific soil types, topography, climate, and cropping pattern characteristics.
• A planning team was set up for each zone and each zone was sub-regionalized on the basis of factors intrinsically related to the character of the agricultural economy.