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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
  1. a and b

  2. c and d

  3. a, b and d

  4. b, c and d

  5. a, b, c and d

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer. The green revolution is associated with higher yield of crops through usage of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. It is also associated with loss of soil fertility due to excessive usage of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, and reduced water table due to excessive use of irrigation.

Multiple choice
  1. Organic farming

  2. Shifting cultivation

  3. Cultivation of high yielding varieties

  4. Growing plants in glass-houses

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Organic farming is a production system of crops which avoids the use of synthetic and chemical inputs like fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators and livestock feed additives.

Multiple choice
  1. dairy development

  2. pig farming

  3. poultry growing

  4. quali farming

  5. sheep rearing

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Deep litter (floor-based with bedding material) and cage systems (wire cages) are two primary housing methods in poultry farming. They are not associated with dairy, pigs, quali (likely a typo for quail), or sheep rearing. These systems are specifically designed for broiler or layer chicken production.

Multiple choice
  1. Its engine is stronger

  2. Its body is stronger

  3. Its wheels are broader

  4. Its wheels are frictionless

  5. It is easily available in villages

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Yes, because of broader tyres, a tractor exerts less pressure over the ground as pressure decreases with increase in surface area or contact, and hence easily runs over the muddy field.

Multiple choice
  1. Cover crops

  2. Microbial inoculants

  3. Soil defertilisation

  4. Herbicides

  5. Surface runoff

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Cover crops are interested in sustainable agriculture as many of them improve the sustainability of agroecosystem attributes and may also indirectly improve qualities of neighboring natural ecosystems.

Multiple choice
  1. Covering

  2. Bradley

  3. Drip irrigation

  4. Tilling

  5. Crop rotation

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

In domestic gardens, methods of weed control include covering an area of ground with a material that creates a hostile environment for weed growth, known as a weed mat. Several layers of wet newspaper prevent light from reaching the plants beneath, which kills them.

Multiple choice
  1. Use of growth regulators

  2. Intensive use of inorganic fertilisers

  3. Spraying of malathion

  4. Using biological predators

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Organic farming emphasizes natural methods over synthetic chemicals. Using biological predators like ladybugs to control pests is a core organic technique. Growth regulators, inorganic fertilizers, and malathion (a pesticide) are all synthetic/chemical inputs prohibited in organic farming.

Multiple choice
  1. Good plantation

  2. Low rainfall

  3. Low temperature

  4. Restricted human activity

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Good plantation with adequate vegetation cover is the most effective soil conservation method because plant roots bind soil particles and prevent erosion. Low rainfall, low temperature, and restricted human activity are not practical or primary conservation methods - vegetation is key.

Multiple choice
  1. Only A

  2. Only B

  3. Both A and B

  4. Only C

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Rainfed farming is indeed complex, diverse, and risk-prone (making statements 1 and 2 true). However, statement 3 is false - rainfed farming is characterized by LOW levels of productivity and LOW input uses, not high productivity.

Multiple choice
  1. 1 and 3 only

  2. 1, 2 and 4 only

  3. 2, 3 and 4 only

  4. 1, 2, 3 and 4

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Third statement is incorrect.1, 2 and 4 statements are correct.