Which of the following is/are correctly matched? Crop - Required Climatic…

Plantation crops such as tea and coffee each have a specific, well-defined temperature and rainfall requirement. Correctly matching a crop to a climatic description means checking that crop's actual, established requirement rather than assuming similar warm/wet or cool/dry conditions apply to every plantation crop.

1. Statement (a) claims Coffee needs a cool and dry climate. Coffee is in fact a warm, humid-climate crop: it grows best around 15°C-24°C with heavy, well-distributed rainfall (roughly 150-250 cm a year) and is usually grown under shade for protection from direct sun. A cool, dry climate would stunt its growth, so statement (a) does not hold.

2. Statement (b) claims Tea needs a warm climate and high rainfall. Tea is indeed grown in a warm climate (roughly 20°C-30°C) with high, well-distributed rainfall (about 200-300 cm a year) on well-drained hill slopes, so statement (b) holds.

Since (a) does not hold and (b) does, only statement (b) is correctly matched — consistent with the officially published CTET Paper-II (2024) answer key for this item.