Description : A farming system in which airable crops are grown in alleys formed by trees or shrubs, to establish soil fertility and to enhance soil productivity, is known as— (A) Relay cropping (B) Multiple cropping (C) Alley cropping (D) Mixed cropping
Last Answer : (C) Alley cropping
Description : If instead of soil, flowing water is used in a specially designed greenhouse farms to grow plants, then this type of farming is known as? a. Hydroculture b. Pisciponics c. Hydroponics d. Aquaponics
Last Answer : c. Hydroponics
Description : If consumers rebel against high fructose corn syrup, what do you think will be the economic results for corn farming? Are beet and cane sugars more or less expensive to raise than corn? Which crop is the least caustic to the soil?
Last Answer : I don't know any of the details but My understanding is that U.S. government subsidizes the corn industry so much that it's not economically feasible for sugar cane manufacturers to compete as a food ... . Hence why you can buy Coca-Cola made in Mexico that uses real cane sugar instead of HFCS.
Description : Classify rainfed farming in India into two categories on the basis of adequacy of soil moisture. -Geography
Last Answer : Rainfed fanning is classified on the basis of adequacy of soil moisture into two (i) dryland farming and (ii) wetland farming: Dry land farming: (i) It is confined to the ... ) Water intensive crops are grown-rice, jute, and sugarcane and practise aquaculture in the fresh water bodies.
Description : Why is Red Soil ideal for dry farming? -SST 10th
Last Answer : Red Soil is ideal for dry farming as it does not require moisture.
Description : When soil is exposed as a result of logging mining and farming what can it lead to?
Last Answer : It can lead to rapid soil erosion.
Description : Is the South Carolina soil good for farming?
Last Answer : What is the answer ?
Description : Which of the following is/are methods of checking soil erosion? 1. Strip cropping 2. Contour ploughing 3. Use of irrigation and fertilisers 4. Terrace farming (a) 1 and 2 (b) 3 and 4 (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Last Answer : Ans: (d)
Description : Why is that India has one of the lowest agricultural yields in the world? (a) Summers are very hot (b) Lack of fertile soil (c) Farmers being poor and illiterate do not use modern farming techniques (d) Occurrence of frost at night
Last Answer : Ans: (c)
Description : Which of the following methods does not help in conserving soil fertility and moisture? (1) Contour ploughing (2) Dry farming (3) Strip cropping (4) Shifting agriculture
Last Answer : (4) Shifting agriculture Explanation: Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned. It is also known as slash and burn ... reclaimed by natural vegetation, or sometimes converted to a different long-term cyclical farming practice.
Description : Which of the following listed is not a feature of organic farming? (1) The non-use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides (2) Soil is nurtured for furture use by maintaining micro-or-danisms tin (3) Use of synthetic fertilizers (4) Very less energy consumption
Last Answer : (3) Use of synthetic fertilizers Explanation: Organic farming is a form of agriculture that re-lies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost, and biological pest ... but it excludes the use of synthetic petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides, plant growth regulators, etc.
Description : Chemical used for organic farming; neu- tralizing acidic soil?
Last Answer : Potassium Bicarbonate
Description : A system of rotating crops with legume or grass pasture to improve soil structure and fertility is called (a) strip farming (b) shifting agriculture (c) ley farming (d) contour farming.
Last Answer : (c) ley farming
Description : The growing of grass or legumes in rotation with grain or tilled crops as a soil conservation measure is termed as? a. Crop rotation b. Ley farming c. Shifting cultivation d. Dairy farming e. Mixed farming
Last Answer : b. Ley farming
Description : Most important objective of mixed farming is — a. Subsistence b. Income generation c. Soil fertility improvement d. Soil conservation
Last Answer : a. Subsistence
Description : Farmers are requested to mix lime with soil while farming their fields. This is because?
Last Answer : Lime decreases the acidity of soil
Description : Which of the following listed is not a feature of organic farming ? (1) The non-use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides (2) Soil is nurtured for furture use by maintaining micro-organisms (3) Use of synthetic fertilizers (4) Very less energy consumption
Last Answer : Use of synthetic fertilizers
Description : Which of the following is a Biological method of soil conservations ? (1) Contour farming (2) Contour terracing (3) Gully control (4) Basin listing
Last Answer : Contour farming
Last Answer : Shifting agriculture
Description : how can I clear land free of stamps and roots in the tropics for mechanisation farming
Last Answer : You need someone with a backhoe to get the stumps out.............dig around them and go down several feet and pull it out. Easier after a rain and for the roots a rototiller might be needed. Good luck with your project.
Description : What is silk farming known as? -SST 10th
Last Answer : Silk farming known as Sericulture.
Description : Leaving agricultural land uncultivated for some years known as – (1) Intensive farming (2) Fallowing (3) Shifting cultivation (4) Subsistence farming
Last Answer : (2) Fallowing Explanation: A land that has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been left unseeded for one or more growing seasons is known as fallow and the process as fallowing.
Description : Monoculture i.e single crop grown over a large area is also known as? a. Commercial Grain Farming b. Intensive Farming c. Multiple Farming d. Mixed Farming e. Plantation Farming
Last Answer : e. Plantation Farming
Description : The repetitive growing of the same sole crop on the same land is known as? a Uniculture b Solo farming c Monoculture d Polyculture e None of these
Last Answer : b Solo farming
Description : The method of harvesting a crop which leaves the roots and the lower parts of the plant uncut to give the subtle crops is known as - a. Mulching b. Intensive farming c. Ratooning d. Zero tillage farming
Last Answer : c. Ratooning
Description : Growing of two or more crops simultaneously on the same field in a definite pattern is known as - a. mixed cropping b. inter cropping c. mixed farming d. hybrid farming
Last Answer : a. mixed cropping
Description : The method of harvesting a crop which leaves the roots and the lower parts of the plant uncut to give the subtle crops is known as? a. Mulching B. Intensive farming C. Ratooning D. Zero tillage farming
Last Answer : C. Ratooning
Description : Sustainable agriculture is also known as– a. Ecological farming b. Natural farming c. Permaculture d. All of these
Last Answer : d. All of these
Description : Which type of agriculture is also known as ‘Slash and burn farming’ ?
Last Answer : Shifting Agriculture
Description : Leaving agricultural land uncultivated for some years known as (1) Intensive farming (2) Fallowing (3) Shifting cultivation (4) Subsistence farming
Last Answer : Fallowing