Description : With reference to agriculture, what are Smother Crops ? a Crops that are grown for grazing of harvesting for immediate or future feeding of livestock. b Crops grown to conserve the soil ... season when main crop fails. e Crops whose culture practices allow the infestation of weeds intensively.
Last Answer : e Crops whose culture practices allow the infestation of weeds intensively.
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 : Generally, the third row of crop is removed or growing of crop in pair row and the third row is escaped with an object to conserve the soil moisture in Dryland areas?
Last Answer : Ans.Paired row Crops
Description : A period in which the available soil moisture is enough to meet the evapotranspiration requirement of dry land crops
Last Answer : Ans.Length of growing period
Description : The most popular mechanical measure to control soil erosion and conserve is
Last Answer : Ans.Contour Bunding
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 : 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 : The moisture deficit condition, results when the amount of water vapour available in the soil is not sufficient to meet the demand of potential evapo-transpiration
Last Answer : Ans.Drought
Description : The moisture content of a soil at which plants permanently wilt and will not recover.
Last Answer : Ans.Permanent wilting point (PWP)
Description : The amount of soil moisture or water content held in soil after excess water has drained away is called
Last Answer : Ans.Field capacity (FC)
Description : Which of the following is a method of indirect measurement of soil moisture?
Last Answer : Ans.Neutron moisture meter
Description : Soil moisture content is determined by
Last Answer : Ans.Tensiometer (at 0.85 bar)
Description : A system of tillage in which organic residues are not inverted into the soil and used as a protective cover against erosion and evaporational losses of soil moisture?
Last Answer : Ans.Conservation tillage or stubble mulch tillage
Description : The optimum range of available soil moisture for convenient and effective ploughing
Last Answer : Ans.50-75%
Description : Such weeds, that are grown in cultivated field?
Last Answer : Ans.Obligate weeds
Description : Such crops have different growth habits and zero competition to each other.
Last Answer : Ans.Parallel cropping
Description : The artificial application of water to supply moisture essential to plant growth is termed as
Last Answer : Ans.Irrigation
Description : Optimum moisture content for safe storage of mustard is
Last Answer : Ans.7-8%
Description : The moisture content at harvesting stage of wheat
Last Answer : Ans.25-30% 3. Maize
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 : 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 : 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 : An agroforestry practice in which perennial, preferably leguminous trees or shrubs are grown simultaneously with arable crop?
Last Answer : Ans.Alley crops or hedge-row intercrops
Description : Most appropriate crops in dryland farming are
Last Answer : Ans.Pearlmillet, sorghum, gram, toria
Description : The alternate crops recommended to sow under late onset of monsoon
Last Answer : Ans.Castor, Greengram, Cowpea, Sunflower etc.
Description : Cultivation of crops in areas where average annual rainfall is 1150 mm are categories as
Last Answer : Ans.Rainfed Farming
Description : Irrigation method, suitable for undulating land, sandy soils and Vegetable and fruit crops
Last Answer : Ans.Sprinkler method
Description : The method, suitable for crops i.e. Sorghum, cotton, maize, tobacco, potato, sugarcane etc is
Last Answer : Ans.Furrow method
Description : When the productions of both inter crops is equal to that of its solid planting.
Last Answer : Ans.Companion cropping
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 in quick succession on the same piece of land in a farming year is termed as
Last Answer : Ans.Sequential/non-overlapping cropping
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 : 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 : The repetitive cultivation of an ordered succession of crops or crops and fallow on the same land is called as
Last Answer : Ans.Crop rotation
Description : The most frost affected crop among all field crops?
Last Answer : Ans.Gram
Description : The recommended fertilizer dose (N:P:K) for fodder and fibre crops are
Last Answer : Ans.2:1:4
Description : The recommended fertilizer dose (N:P:K) for oilseed crops are
Last Answer : Ans.3:2:1
Description : The recommended fertilizer dose (N:P:K) for pulse crops are
Last Answer : Ans.1:2:1 or 1:2:2
Description : The recommended fertilizer dose (N:P:K) for cereal crops are
Last Answer : Ans.4:2:1
Description : Optimum depth of sowing for most of field crops
Last Answer : Ans.3-5 cm
Description : Rabi crops are generally denoted as
Last Answer : Ans.Long day plants
Description : Kharif crops are generally denoted as
Last Answer : Ans.Short day plants