Cropping Methods

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What is strip cropping?

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Leaving the land uncultivated for one or more seasons is called

1. Crop rotation

2. Inter cropping

3. Field fallowing

4. Both (a) and (b)

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What is meant by intensive cropping?

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Growing different crops in the same field in a pre-planned succession is ______ .

1. Crop management

2. Crop rotation

3. Intercropping

4. Plant breeding

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The technique of growing two or more different crops together in the same field is known

1. Mixed cropping

2. Mixed farming

3. Inter cropping

4. Crop rotation

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What are the methods used for soil replenishment?

1. Crop rotation

2. All of the above

3. Keep land uncultivated

4. Addition of manure

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Crop rotation and intercropping are the two practices adopted by most farmers to avoid the disadvantages of monocropping. Choose the correct option that describes the basic difference between crop rotation and intercropping.

1. Crop rotation: Two or more crops are taken at the same time but in different fields

   Intercropping: Two or more crops are taken at the same time in the same field.

2. Crop rotation: Two crops are taken one after the other in the same field

   Intercropping: Two crops are taken at the same time in the same field

3. Crop rotation: Two crops are taken at the same time in the same field

   Intercropping: Two crops are taken one after the other in the same field.

4. Crop rotation: one crop is taken throughout the year in the same field

   Intercropping: Two or many crops are taken at the same time in the same field

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A pulse crop is grown between two cereal crops to compensate for the________.

1. loss of water

2. loss of phosphate

3. loss of sulphur

4. loss of nitrogen

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Why do bean seeds not need soil to germinate?

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Cultivation of short term crops along with the main crops in the same field is called ____ .

1. Mixed cropping

2. Intercropping

3. Crop rotation

4. All of these

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Bharath is a young farmer. He plants a row of wheat and a row of soybean alternately. What kind of cropping pattern is he adopting?

1. Crop rotation

2. Row intercropping

3. Mixed cropping

4. Innovative cropping

Q. What are the advantages of intercropping and crop rotation?

Q. Define: Intercropping

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A combination of crops cultivated on the same piece of land simultaneously is known as ____ .

1. Random cropping

2. Mixed cropping

3. Crop rotation

4. Single cropping

Q. Which of these statements is true about intercropping?

1. Seeds of two crops are mixed before sowing.
2. Harvesting and thrashing are not possible separately.
3. Maximum utilisation of nutrients supplied.
4. There are set pattern of rows of crops.

Q. What do you understand by inter-cropping? Write one advantage of this method.

Q. Which temperature range favours the growth of microbes?

1. 0℃- 5℃
2. 60℃- 85℃
3. 5℃- 60℃
4. -10℃- 10℃

Q. Growing two or more crops in definite row pattern is called

1. Crop rotation
2. Mixed cropping
3. Intra-cropping
4. Inter-cropping

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Drip irrigation is dripping of water at the _______ of the plant regularly.

1. Stem

2. Leaf

3. Base

4. Shoot

Q. Bhola and Rajni, who are studying in Class IX, were travelling in a train. Rajni observed field with two crops growing simultaneously in a definite pattern. While Bhola was busy playing with a velocity game, Rajni noticed that rows of bajra and lobia were grown in alternate rows.

Q. Which cropping method involves growing two or more crops in definite row pattern?

1. Mixed farming
2. Intercropping
3. Mixed cropping
4. Crop rotation

Q. Which cropping method involves the successive growing of different crops in the same field in a definite pattern?

1. Crop rotation
2. Mixed farming
3. Inter cropping
4. Mixed cropping

Q. Bhola and Rajni, who are studying in Class IX, were travelling in a train. Rajni observed field with two crops growing simultaneously in a definite pattern. While Bhola was busy playing with a velocity game, Rajni noticed that rows of bajra and lobia were grown in alternate rows. How does this practice benefit the farmer?

Q. Identify the method of cropping pattern based on the definition given below.

A. Practice of growing different crops on the same land in pre-planned succession.

B. Two crops are grown simultaneously on the field.

C. Practice of growing more than one crop on the same field at the same time in a definite row pattern.

Q. Describe the various cropping patterns.

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After a harvest, certain types of plants are preferably grown on the land to replenish the depleted nutrients in the soil.

Given below is a pictorial representation of a clock with a plant name at different time coordinates. Select the correct option with the time which represents the plant(s) used to replenish the nutrients of soil after a harvest. (Assume that the minute hand is always at 12; for example - neem represents 2:00).

1. 3:00, 4:00, 6:00 and 8:00

2. 12:00, 1:00, 6:00 and 8:00

3. 7:00, 9:00 and 2:00

4. 7:00 and 9:00

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In crop rotation, different crops are grown __________ on the same piece of land.

1. evenly mixed

2. randomly

3. simultaneously

4. alternately

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The method of cropping where a short-term crop is cultivated with the main crop is known as _______ .

1. Inter-cropping

2. Single cropping

3. Random cropping

4. Rotation cropping