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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

What has been the goal of industrialized agriculture for any crop?

  1. Increase crop yield

  2. Increase profits

  3. Decrease pesticide use

  4. Reduce subsidies
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The central objective of industrialized agriculture is to maximize the output per unit of land, which is achieved by increasing crop yields through technology, fertilizers, and high-yield varieties.

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Prevention of soil erosion and preservation of its fertility is known as _______.

  1. Soil loss

  2. Soil management

  3. Land preservation

  4. Soil conservation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Soil conservation refers to the management and prevention of soil erosion and the preservation of soil fertility to maintain its productivity.

Multiple choice biology improvement in food resources manure manures and fertilisers role of organic manures in soil management

Choose the correct options from the following.
Advantage of manure

  1. It is cheap.

  2. It reduces soil erosion.

  3. It increases soil fertility, water holding capacity and aeration.

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

Manure is an organic substance produced by the decomposition of plant and animal wastes in the presence of microorganism and used as fertilizers. Advantages of manure are that it is cheap, it reduce soil erosion, it increases soil fertility, water holding capacity and aeration.

Thus, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice biology improvement in food resources manure manures and fertilisers role of organic manures in soil management

Which of the following conditions will give the most benefits? Why?

  1. Farmers use high-quality seeds, do not adopt irrigation or use fertilizers.

  2. Farmers use ordinary seeds, adopt irrigation and use fertilizer.

  3. Farmers use quality seeds, adopt irrigation, use fertilizer and use crop protection measures.

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

For more production of crops and to get more benefits from that farmer should use best quality seeds, proper irrigation, use of fertilizer for better supplement of food and best crop protection. These conditions helps in large crop production at the same time. 

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Which of the following is true for Cash crop farming?

  1. Cash crop farming is for profit

  2. Monocropping or sole cropping, which is the growing of a single crop on a piece of land, is

    common with cash crop

  3. It is called commercial farming

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

Explanation: A cash crop is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. The term cash crop is applied exclusively to the agricultural production of plants; animal agriculture is not a part of the terminology.

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What was the purpose of Land reforms?

  1. Efficient use of scarce land resource

  2. Redistributing agricultural land in favor of the less privileged class in general & cultivating class in particular.

  3. Both

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

Land reforms aimed to improve agricultural efficiency by consolidating holdings and to promote social justice by redistributing land to the actual tillers and the landless.

Multiple choice zoology meaning of life level of biological organization in animals introduction to tissues basics of ecology

Agroecosystem is unstable because of

  1. Lack of variety

  2. Lack of biological control

  3. Both A and B

  4. Being man made
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Agroecosystem is also called as ecosystem on agricultural land. It is created by man. It includes biotic and nonbiotic components involved in that unit and their interactions.  It is unstable because of lack of variety and lack of biological control. It also lacks self-control.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Both A and B.'

Multiple choice

A material used in a footbath for cows with foot rot problems is:

  1. Copper sulfate

  2. Monosodium phosphate

  3. Calcium carbonate

  4. Sodium chloride
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Copper sulfate is a standard chemical used in footbaths to treat and prevent foot rot and digital dermatitis in dairy cattle. It acts as an astringent and antiseptic to harden the hoof tissue.

Multiple choice

What is Environmental Stewardship?

  1. Absence of soil, roots in water

  2. Agricultural practices that work to protect the environment from harm

  3. Crops planted directly in undistured soil

  4. Helping harvest while running grain cart, and taking wheat to grain bins.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Environmental stewardship refers to the responsible use and protection of the natural environment through conservation and sustainable practices. In agriculture, this means managing land and resources to minimize negative impacts on ecosystems.