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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

Which of the following desirable effect results because of rotation of crops?

  1. Higher pest resistance

  2. Increase in fertility of soil

  3. Increase in the protein content of the yield

  4. Decrease in the use of pesticides

  5. Lower moisture content of the yield
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Crop rotation helps maintain soil fertility by preventing the depletion of specific nutrients, as different crops have varying nutrient requirements and some, like legumes, fix nitrogen in the soil.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Commercial farming uses higher doses of modern inputs, e.g. high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, chemical fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides in order to obtain higher productivity. b. Plantation is a type of commercial farming. c. In plantation farming, a single crop is grown on a large area.

  1. a only

  2. b only

  3. c only

  4. b and c

  5. a, b and c
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E Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer as all the statements are correct.

Multiple choice

Mulching is

  1. putting straw or waste vegetables to conserve moisture

  2. rearing of animals

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. None of the above

  5. -
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Mulches are loose coverings or sheets of material that are placed on the surface of cultivated soil. They help soils retain moisture in summer and suppress weeds.

Multiple choice

The purpose of crop rotation is to

  1. increase the fertility of soil

  2. decrease the fertility of soil

  3. prevent soil erosion

  4. prevent water erosion

  5. -
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Crop rotation is the growing of different crops in succession on a piece of land to avoid exhausting the soil and to control weeds, pests and diseases.

Multiple choice

To make the Indian agriculture more ecofriendly, we should practice all of the following, except

  1. crop diversification

  2. contour ploughing

  3. monoculture

  4. sprinkle irrigation
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C Correct answer
Explanation

To make the Indian agriculture more ecofriendly, we should practice all of the above, except monoculture. Monoculture is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop or plant species over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years. It is widely used in modern industrial agriculture and its implementation has allowed for large harvests from minimal labour. This extracts nutrients from soil and causes land pollution.

Multiple choice

Which of the following can bring about the maximum increase in crop produce in our country in future?

  1. Increasing land under cultivation.

  2. Using more manures and fertilizers.

  3. Less wastage in storage.

  4. Using better varieties of crop plants.

  5. Producing more variety of crop on one piece of land at one time.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Using better varieties of crop plants can bring about the maximum increase in crop produce in our country in future.