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Agricultural Practices and Land Use

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Access a comprehensive collection of questions on agricultural practices and land use planning. The topics span organic farming, sustainable agriculture, soil conservation, and crop rotation. These concepts are essential for general awareness preparation across banking, railway, and civil services examinations.

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Agricultural Practices and Land Use Questions

Multiple choice biology modern agriculture modern equipments in agriculture soil quality methods of crop production

The disadvantage of hoe to humans as presented by some individuals is____________

  1. Hoe does not help in removal of weed.

  2. Hoe leads to spoilage of soil.

  3. Use of short handled hoes leads to back pain.

  4. All of the above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

  • Hoe is a long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding. The human damage caused by long-term use of short-handled hoes, 
  • which required the user to bend over from the waist to reach the ground, and caused permanent, crippling lower back pain to farmworkers. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option C.

Multiple choice biology modern agriculture modern equipments in agriculture soil quality methods of crop production

The main function of cultivator is

  1. To turn the soil

  2. To make furrow in soil

  3. To pulverize the soil

  4. All of the above functions
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Cultivators are used to stir and pulverize the soil, either before planting (to aerate the soil and prepare a smooth, loose seedbed) or after the crop has begun growing to kill weeds—controlled disturbance of the topsoil close to the crop plants kills the surrounding weeds by uprooting them, burying their leaves to disrupt their photosynthesis or a combination of both. Cultivators are designed to disturb the soil in careful patterns, sparing the crop plants but disrupting the weeds.

Multiple choice biology modern agriculture modern equipments in agriculture soil quality methods of crop production

Conservation tillage is :

  1. Terrace tillage

  2. Reduced tillage

  3. No tillage

  4. Both B and C
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
Conservation tillage is a tillage system that creates a suitable soil environment for growing a crop and that conserves soil, water and energy resources mainly through the reduction in the intensity of tillage, and retention of plant residues. The most important advantage of conservation tillage systems is significantly less soil erosion due to wind and water.  No tillage farming is a way of growing crops or pasture from year to year without disturbing the soil through tillage. No tillage is an agricultural technique which increases the amount of water that infiltrates into the soil, the soil's retention of organic matter and its cycling of nutrients. Reduced tillage  is a practice of minimising soil disturbance and allowing crop residue or stubble to remain on the ground instead of being thrown away or incorporated into the soil. In terracing, wide steps are cut around the slopes of hills to prevent soil erosion. Since, both reduced and no tillage indulge in soil and water conservation, same as the conservation tillage
So, the correct answer is 'Both B and C'
Multiple choice botany plant breeding method of plant breeding for crop improvement plant breeding for food production biotechnology

Aim of plant breeding is to

  1. Control pollution

  2. Keep soil fertile

  3. Produce improved varieties

  4. To maintain wild plants
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The primary objective of plant breeding is to create new and improved plant varieties that possess desirable traits such as higher yield, better nutritional quality, or disease resistance.

Multiple choice biology breeding and biotechnology method of plant breeding for crop improvement plant breeding for food production biotechnology

Which one of the following is the indigenous breed of chickens ?

  1. plymouth rock

  2. white leghorn

  3. aseel

  4. rhode island red
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Aseel is a pure indigenous breed of chicken originated from India and Pakistan. They are used for cock fighting. They are very large breed of chicken from subcontinents. This breed is good in high yield of meat but it is not good for egg production. The average weight of cock varies from 4 to 5 kg and hens 3 to 4 kg. 

Multiple choice biology breeding and biotechnology method of plant breeding for crop improvement plant breeding for food production biotechnology

Which one of following breeds of cattle is a cross-breed and high milk yielding ?

  1. Sahiwal

  2. Karan-Swiss

  3. Tharparkar

  4. Jersey.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Karan Swiss is the hybrid variety and high milk yielding breed of cow. It is the hybrid breed of Taurine and Zebu. Taurine is used for milk production, while Zebu is used for flesh.

Multiple choice pastoral nomand and their movements pastoralists in the modern world history

What was the result of overgrazing the pastures due to the restrictions on pastoral movements?

  1. The quality of pastures declined.

  2. This created deterioration of animal stock.

  3. Under fed cattle died in large numbers during scarcity and famine.

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Under colonial rule, the life of pastoralists changed dramatically. When grazing lands were taken over and turned into cultivated fields, the available area of pastureland declined.  When restrictions were imposed on pastoral movements, grazing lands came to be continuously used and the quality of pastures declined. This, in turn, created a further shortage of forage for animals and the deterioration of animal stock. Underfed cattle died in large numbers during scarcities and famines.

Multiple choice evs whose forests? improved methods of agriculture cropping patterns food for all conservation of forest and wildlife wildlife deforestation and conservation

The best time for removal of weeds is before they produce flowers and seeds.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Removal of weed (or weeding) is done before weeds flower because if they flower they will also produce seeds and finally result in the dispersal of the seeds which makes it difficult to control the weeds because each seed will produce a new weed plant.

So the correct option is ' True ' .

Multiple choice evs whose forests? improved methods of agriculture cropping patterns food for all conservation of forest and wildlife wildlife deforestation and conservation

Which of the following effect is not caused due to weeds?

  1. Increased crop field

  2. Interference with harvest

  3. Limit the choice of crop rotation sequences and cultural practices

  4. Serve as hosts for crop diseases or provide shelter for insects
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Weeds are detrimental to agriculture; they do not increase crop yield. Instead, they decrease it by competing for resources.

Multiple choice evs whose forests? improved methods of agriculture cropping patterns food for all conservation of forest and wildlife wildlife deforestation and conservation

Weeding is necessary because_______________

  1. They affect growth of the plant

  2. They affect the nutrients supplied to the soil

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Weeding is necessary since weeds compete with the crop plants for water, nutrients, space and light. Thus, they affect the growth of the crop. Some weeds interfere even in harvesting and may be poisonous for animals and human beings. 

Therefore, the correct answer is the option C.

Multiple choice evs whose forests? improved methods of agriculture cropping patterns food for all conservation of forest and wildlife wildlife deforestation and conservation

'Aquatic' weeds can be utilized and converted into

  1. Ethanol

  2. Fertilizers

  3. Leather

  4. Solid waste
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Aquatic weeds, such as water hyacinth, are rich in organic matter and nutrients. They are commonly harvested and processed into organic fertilizers or compost to improve soil quality.

Multiple choice evs whose forests? improved methods of agriculture cropping patterns food for all conservation of forest and wildlife wildlife deforestation and conservation

................. helps in weed control.

  1. Mono cropping

  2. Multi cropping

  3. Both A and B

  4. Crop rotation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

  • Rotating crops with ones that kill weeds by choking them out, such as hemp and other crops, can be a very effective method of weed control. 
  • It is a way to avoid the use of herbicides and to gain the benefits of crop rotation. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice geography australia - location, political divisions and physical features australia australia australia - geographical features

How much time is required for a sugarcane plant to be matured?

  1. 5 months

  2. 7 months

  3. 9 months

  4. 14 months
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Sugar cane grows for 12 to 16 months before being harvested between June and December each year. When harvested, the cane stands two to four metres high. Queensland's sugar cane is harvested by self-propelled harvesting machines.