ibps-so 2016 · Question 365 of 394

The international division of the bank is circulating a note on agricultural export nance to its rural branches, and the opening paragraph is to name the single agricultural commodity that earns the largest export value for the country, so that the branches in the producing tracts may be told where to look for packing credit business. The commodity concerned is grown in a well de ned belt of the north-western plains under a geographical indication, is aged before it is milled, and goes almost entirely to West Asia. The draftsman has been cautioned that the answer is not the commodity that moves in the largest quantity by weight or that is grown over the largest area, but the one that stands rst in export value in the trade statistics. The agricultural product with the maximum export from India is

1. AOnion
2. BRaw cotton
3. CSugar
4. DBasmati riceCorrect
5. ETea