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Correlate the agro-climatic zones with agro-ecological regions of India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Agriculture

Both descend from Derwent Whittlesey, who held that an agricultural region must be delimited on an ensemble of criteria — crop and livestock association, method of production, intensity of labour and capital, disposal of the produce — never on a single element.

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  • The two divisions answer two different questions
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