Agricultural Practices

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What is animal husbandry?

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Explain rahat and moat pulley system?

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List the steps involved in crop production in sequential order.

Q. Why do crops grown in Sandy soil needs more irrigation than crops grown in clayey soil?

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Question 22
(a) Name the practice followed for large scale rearing of farm animals.
(b) What facilities are provided to farm animals?

Q. Which of the following is/are a flowering plant?

1. Moss
2. Pine
3. Fern
4. Banyan

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Animals reared at home or in farms have to be provided with proper food, shelter and care. This is known as __.

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Out of drip system and sprinkler system of irrigation, which one is more suitable:​

(c) for watering fruit plants?​

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Q. The process of drying wheat stalks in the sun and then beating them to separate the grains is called:

1. winnowing
2. threshing
3. churning
4. sieving

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Out of drip system and sprinkler system of irrigation, which one is more suitable:​

(d) where availability of water is poor?​

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Q. Question 7
Paheli dug two pits, A and B in her garden. In pit A, she put a polyhtene bag packed with some agricultural waste. In pit B, she dumped the same kind of waste but without packing it in a polythene bag. She then covered both the pits with soil. What did she observe after a month?

(a) Waste in pit A degraded faster than that in pit B.
(b) Waste in pit B degraded faster than that in pit A.
(c) Waste in both pits degraded almost equally.
(d) Waste in both pits did not degrade at all.

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Describe the merits and demerits of well and tubewell irrigation in India

Q. is the scientific management of livetocks which includes feeding, breeding and disease control.

1. Animal slaughter
2. Animal breeding
3. Animal husbandry

Q. Which is the best system of irrigation on an uneven land?

1. Sprinkler
2. Drip
3. Moat
4. Chain-pump

Q. Read the given example of anma interaction.
(i) An oorchid growing as an epiiphyte on a mango branch.
(ii) Barnacles growing on the back of whale.
(iii) Clown fish lliving among the stiging tentacles of sea anemone.
(iv) Cattle egrets foraging close to the grazing catte.
which kind of interaction is being cited by these?

1. Competiin
2. Amensalism
3. Mutualism
4. Commensalism

Q. Match the following agricultural tasks with their respective implements and select the correct option.​

	Agricultural tasks		Implements​
(a)	Tilling	(i)	Combine
(b)	Sowing	(ii)	Trowel
(c)	Irrigation	(iii)	Seed drill
(d)	Weeding	(iv)	Plough​
(e)	Harvesting​	(v)	Sprinkler

1. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(v), (d)-(iv), (e)-(i)​
2. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(v), (d)-(ii), (e)-(i)​
3. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(v), (d)-(i), (e)-(ii)​
4. (a)-(v), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i), (e)-(iii)​

Q. Azolla enriches rice fields with nitrogen due to its association with.

1. Nostoc
2. Anabaena
3. Rhizobium
4. Frankia

Q. ___ is the practice of rearing animals at home or farms for human benefit.

Q. Person X and Y were successful in growing 1 kg of wheat grains and stored it in the storage room. After a while, person X noticed the decolouration of the grains and complains to person Y about it who then explains the reason for this.
Which among the following options were explained by the person Y?

1. Temperature in the place of storage.
2. Moisture in the place of storage.
3. Presence of insects.
4. Fumigation

Q. ___ deals with rearing animals at home or in farms.

1. Animal farming
2. Animal science
3. Animal husbandry
4. Animal life

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Nitrogen fertilization of rice fields can be low in the presence of one of the following types of organisms. Which one?

1. Water fern

2. Green algae

3. Brown algae

4. Mosses

Q. Sheryl dug two pits, A and B, in her garden. In pit A, she put a polythene bag packed with some agricultural waste. In pit B, she dumped the same kind of waste but without packing it in a polythene bag. She, then covered both the pits with soil. What did she observe after a month?

1. Waste in pit A degraded faster than that in pit B.
2. Waste in pit B degraded faster than that in pit A.
3. Waste in both pits degraded almost equally.
4. Waste in both pits did not degrade at all.

Q. Pili present in both gram +ve, gram -ve bacteria?

Q. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes:

	List-I		List-II
A.	Barley	1.	Hot and dry climate with poor soil
B.	Rice	2.	Cool climate with poorer soil
C.	Millets	3.	Warm and moist climates with high altitude
D.	Tea	4.	Hot and moist climate with rich soil

1. A - 2, B - 1, C - 4, D - 3
2. A - 3, B - 2, C - 4, D - 1
3. A - 3, B - 4, C - 1, D - 2
4. A - 2, B - 4, C - 1, D - 3

Q. If soil of a land is less fertile and farmer wants to cultivate a crop on this land then which of the following agricultural practices should be done by him to increase the fertility of soil as well as yield of crop?

(a) Adding excessive amount of fertilizer to the soil
(b) Adding manure to the soil
(c) By using crop rotation method
(d) Cultivation of weeds on that land along with crop

Q. Which of the following crop yields more if it is grown in clay and organic matter and having a good capacity to retain water?

1. Wheat
2. Gram
3. Paddy
4. Cotton

Q. ___is the practice of rearing animals at home or farms for human benefit.

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Arrange the following agricultural practices based on the order in which they are followed.

1. Harvesting
2. Sowing
3. Storage
4. Irrigation
5. Preparation of soil

1. 1 $\to$ 2 $\to$ 3 $\to$ 4 $\to$ 5
2. 5 $\to$ 3 $\to$ 4 $\to$ 1 $\to$ 2
3. 2 $\to$ 1 $\to$ 3 $\to$ 5 $\to$ 4
4. 5 $\to$ 2 $\to$ 4 $\to$ 1 $\to$ 3

Q. Due to heavy rise in demand for tea in international market and simultaneous incentive given by government on tea plantation. a tea company wants to go for a large-scale expansion of its tea plantation in Assam. To implement the project, the company need a large number of saplings and a huge motivated work force.
(a) What is the best option for the company to arrange large number of saplings?
(b) What are the minimum facilities that the company should provide to its workers?
(c) What additional step can the company take to motivate the workers to put extra effort into successful expansion of the plantation?

Q. The crops grown during rainy season (June to September) and those grown in winter season (October to March) are respectively known as?

1. Rabi and zaid crops
2. Kharif and zaid crops
3. Kharif and rabi crops
4. Rabi and kharif crops