Farming Practices
Covers fundamental farming practices including soil preparation, irrigation, sowing methods, harvesting, livestock management, and crop protection.
Questions
Which of the following is not a farming practice?
- Irrigation of fields
- Harvesting crops
- Storage of crops
- Selling crops
Farming includes
- growing crops for food only
- keeping animals only
- both growing crops and keeping animals
- growing crops for raw materials only
Why are manure and fertilisers added to soil?
- To increase fertility of soil
- To replenish the soil with nutrients
- To get better and high yield
- All of these
What does preparation of soil mean?
- Loosening of soil
- Sowing seeds into soil
- Irrigating the soil
- Weeding
The process of separating grain from chaff is called ______________
- cutting
- threshing
- spinning
- chaffing
The undesirable plants that grow naturally along with the main crop are called
- weeding
- weeds
- weedicides
- pests
Which tool is used as an untraditional method of sowing seeds?
- Plough
- Hoe
- Seed drill
- Khurpi
Which among the following are sources of irrigation?
(i) Rivers (ii) Wells (iii) Tubewells (iv) Lakes
(v) Dams (vi) Canals (vii) Ponds
- (i), (iv), (vi), (vii)
- (ii), (iii), (iv)
- (iii), (v), (vi)
- All of these
The practice of keeping fish is called
- fishiculture
- pisciculture
- blue revolution
- silver revolution
A person practising cattle farming must be doing it for
- egg production
- honey production
- milk production
- meat production