Tag: soil quality

Extraction of juice from sugarcane by crushing the cane can be done either by bullock-operated can crusher or in power-operated cane crushers. 60-65% sugarcane juice can be extracted by using bullock-operated cane-crusher.

• Cultivators can be used instead of the hoe. 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. Unlike a harrow, which disturbs the entire surface of the soil, cultivators are designed to disturb the soil in careful patterns, sparing the crop plants but disrupting the weeds. 

• The advantage of agricultural methods that require repeated ploughing is that they allow mono-cropping on a large scale at remote locations, using industrial machinery rather than human labor.
• Monocropping is the agricultural practice of growing a single crop year after year on the same land, in the absence of rotation through other crops or growing multiple crops on the same land (polyculture). 

• Shaping the soil includes piling soil around the base of plants (hilling), creating narrow furrows (drills) and shallow trenches for planting seeds and bulbs. Weed control with a hoe can be by agitating the surface of the soil or by cutting foliage from the roots and clearing the soil of old roots and crop residues. 

• A ridging plough is used for crops, such as potatoes or scallions, which are grown buried in ridges of soil using a technique called as ridging or hilling. 
• A ridging plough has two mould boards facing away from each other, cutting a deep furrow on each pass, with high ridges either side. 

• Hoe is a long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding. Draw hoe is used for shaping the soil. 
• There are many types of draw hoe, like ridging hoe, hoe dads, etc. Swoe hoe and collinear hoes are types of scuffle hoe. 

• Scottish hand plow is used solely by human effort rather than with animal or machine assistance and is pulled backward by the operator, requiring great physical effort. It is particularly used for the second breaking of ground. The tool is typically found on smallholdings too small or poor to merit the use of animals. 

• A chisel plough is a common tool which is used to get deep tillage (prepared land) with limited soil disruption. 
• The main function of this plough is to loosen and aerate the soils while leaving crop residue at the top of the soil. 
• This plough can be used to reduce the effects of compaction and to help break up the hardpan. 
• Unlike many other ploughs, the chisel will not invert or turn the soil. This characteristic has made it a useful addition to no-till and low-till farming practices that attempt to maximise the erosion-prevention. 

Agriculture Hoe is a long handle with thin, flat blade tool, which is used to dig the surface of the ground, pick out the weeds etc. Draw hoes are used to remove weeds without moving the mound soil and Scuffle hoes are used to cut the root of weeds easily and cultivate the soil. Thus, the correct option is B.

• A plough or plow is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting to loosen or turn the soil. 
• The various types of ploughs used in agriculture are chisel, ridging, Scottish hand plough, mole plough etc.