Description : Which of the following Agroforestry System is matched incorrectly based on its component? [a] Boundary Plantation - Tress on Boundary + Crops [b] Block Plantation - Block of Trees + Block of Crops [c] ... Crops [d] Alley Cropping - Perennial hedges + Crop [e] Energy Plantation - Fruit Trees + Crops
Last Answer : [d] Alley Cropping – Perennial hedges + Crop
Description : Growing of two or more crops simultaneously in alternate rows or otherwise in the same area, where there is significant amount of inter crop competition is called as
Last Answer : Ans.Intercropping
Description : The crop grown on degraded land for improvement is called
Last Answer : Ans.Conservation crop
Description : One crop variety grown alone in pure stands at normal density in a field
Last Answer : Ans.Sole cropping
Description : Crops, those are grown to protect the main cash crop from a certain pest or several pests?
Last Answer : Ans.Trap Crops
Description : Any crop or combination of crops is grown for grazing or harvesting for immediate or future feeding to livestock?
Last Answer : Ans.Ley Crops
Description : A close-growing crop, grown primarily to improve and protect the soil from erosion through their ground covering foliage and/or rootmats between periods of regular crop production?
Last Answer : Ans.Cover Crops
Description : A crop, grown for direct sale rather than for livestock feed or a crop grown by a farmer primarily for sale to others rather than for his or her own use?
Last Answer : Ans.Cash Crops
Description : The practice of flushing out germinable weed seeds before crop sowing is called
Last Answer : Ans.Stale seed bed
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 : Crops are grown between the rows of trees or shrubs is a type of which cropping ?
Last Answer : Ally cropping
Description : The land on which crops are grown are known as? a. Arable Land b. Wet Land c. Dry Land d. None of these e. All of these
Last Answer : a. Arable Land
Description : The most important Agroforestry practice is
Last Answer : Ans. Acacia leucophloea + Cenchrus setigerus
Description : Practice of forestry with the object of raising flowering trees and shrubs mainly to serve as recreation forests for the urban and rural population, is known as? [a] Recreation forestry [b] Extension forestry [c] Farm forestry [d] Mixed forestry [e] All of these
Last Answer : [a] Recreation forestry
Description : Rotation of crops means (a) Same crop is grown again and again (b) Two crops are grown simultaneously to increase productivity of the soil (c) Different crops are grown in succession to maintain the soil fertility (d) None of the above
Last Answer : Ans: (c)
Description : Which is the most arable crop in India
Last Answer : Rice
Description : Two or more than two crops of different heights cultivated simultaneously on the same field is called as
Last Answer : Ans.Multistoreyed/Multitired/Multi-level cropping
Description : Growing of two or more crops simultaneously and intermingled without row arrangements, wherethere is significant amount of intercrop competition is called as
Last Answer : Ans.Mixed cropping
Description : Which one of the following terms describes the practice of growing two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land? a. Crop rotation b. Mixed cropping c. Intercropping d. Mixed farming
Last Answer : b. Mixed cropping
Description : Such weeds, that are grown in cultivated field?
Last Answer : Ans.Obligate weeds
Description : Maize variety widely grown in USA?
Last Answer : Ans.Zea mays identata (Dent corn)
Description : Most widely grown maize spp. in India?
Last Answer : Ans.Zea mays indurate (Flint corn)
Description : The highest grown wheat species in India
Last Answer : Ans.T. aestivum
Description : Javanica rice is grown in
Last Answer : Ans.Indonesia
Description : Japonica rice is grown in
Last Answer : Ans.Japan
Description : Indica rice is grown in
Last Answer : Ans.India
Description : Such crops are grown to conserve the soil moisture through their ground covering foliage?
Last Answer : Ans.Mulch Crops
Description : Crops, which protect another crops from trespassing of animals or restrict the speed of wind and are mainly grown as border
Last Answer : Ans.Border/Guard Crops
Description : Crops which are grown to supplement the yield of the main crops?
Last Answer : Ans.Augment Crops
Description : Which one of the following is a leguminous crop ? -SST 10th
Last Answer : A - Leguminous plants are a member of the pea family. The seeds are in pods, they have distinctive flowers and these plants are able to provide Nitrogen to the soil due to the symbiotic bacteria in the roots.
Description : Symbiotic N2 fixing bacteria in leguminous crop.
Last Answer : Ans. Rhizobium
Description : Why is leguminous crop rotation used in agriculture ?
Last Answer : Leguminous crop rotation and other crop rotations are used in agriculture because in these plants many bacteria important for the nitrogen cycle live. The leguminous crop rotation (or conjointly with the ... to improve the fixation of nitrogen and it is an option to avoid chemical fertilizers.
Description : Non leguminous nitrogen fixing trees
Last Answer : Ans. Alnus nepalensis
Description : What is the Critical Period of Crop-Weed Competition for sugarcane?
Last Answer : Ans.30-120 DAS
Description : What is the Critical Period of Crop-Weed Competition for Upland rice condition?
Last Answer : Ans.Entire period of crop growth
Description : What is the Critical Period of Crop-Weed Competition for transplanted rice?
Last Answer : Ans.30-45 DAS
Description : Which of the following stages of a crop are more prone to weed competition?
Last Answer : Ans.Germination to seedling
Description : The off type crop varieties are
Last Answer : Ans.Rogue
Description : Problematic weed, whose seed once mixed with crop seed is extremely difficult to separate?
Last Answer : Ans.Objectionable weed
Description : Which crop rotation under dryland situation will be more remunerative?
Last Answer : Ans.Sesamum-gram
Description : The length of growing period, suitable for growing only a single dry land crop
Last Answer : Ans.14 weeks
Description : The crop sown under condition of early onset of monsoon
Last Answer : Ans.Pearlmillet and Sesamum
Description : The contingent crop plan suggested when long gap in rainfall
Last Answer : Ans.Providing life saving irrigation only at critical growth stages
Description : Change in normal crop planning to meet weather abnormalities is termed as
Last Answer : Ans.Contingent planning
Description : Crop growing season of dryland farming is
Last Answer : Ans.75 – 120 days
Description : The ratio of the crop yield to the total amount of water used for irrigation is called, measured in kg/ha-cm is
Last Answer : Ans.Water use efficiency
Description : Water requirement of cotton crop
Last Answer : Ans.70-130 cm
Description : The quantity of water needed for normal crop growth and yield in a period of time to a place and may be supplied by precipitation or by irrigation or by both.
Last Answer : Ans.Water requirement of a crop
Description : Irrigation is applied to the crop at
Last Answer : Ans.50%soil moisture depletion stage
Description : The percentage of applied irrigation water stored in the soil and made available for consumptive use by the crop
Last Answer : Ans.Irrigation Efficiency