ibps-so 2016 · Question 359 of 394

A zonal o ce is redrawing its area development plans on the basis of the agro-climatic regions into which the country has been divided for planning purposes, and the o cer preparing the note for the hill branches has to place the States of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in the correct region. The note records that this region carries the temperate horticulture of the country, that its crop calendar is governed by snowmelt and by a short growing season, and that its lending is dominated by apple, sa ron, o -season vegetables and small ruminants rather than by cereals. The o cer is cautioned that the region must not be confused with the neighbouring hill region to the east, which carries shifting cultivation, a very high rainfall and a wholly di erent cropping pattern. The agro-climatic region to which Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh belong is the

1. AWestern Himalayan regionCorrect
2. BEastern Himalayan region
3. CTrans-Gangetic Plains region
4. DUpper Gangetic Plains region
5. EWestern Dry region