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Farming Practices

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Which of the following term is synonym for green plants?

  1. Autotrophs

  2. Heterotrophs

  3. Auxotrophs

  4. Photoheterotrophs


Correct Option: A

What term defines the cultivation of crop plants?

  1. Silviculture

  2. Agriculture

  3. Horticulture

  4. Generation


Correct Option: B

What is the process by which plants synthesize their food known as?

  1. Transpiration

  2. Evaporation

  3. Photosynthesis

  4. Precipitation


Correct Option: C

Horticulture includes the

  1. Rearing of fishes

  2. Rearing of honey bees

  3. Plant propagation and plant breeding

  4. Rearing of milk animals


Correct Option: C

Which of the following processes is called threshing?

  1. The separation of best quality grains from the crop

  2. The separation of grains from the crops which are cut

  3. The separation of grains on the basis of their size

  4. The separation of infected grains from the crops


Correct Option: B

Which of the following months is not associated with the Rabi crops?

  1. Octobe-June

  2. November-september

  3. March-December

  4. January


Correct Option: A

The macro and micronutrients are provided by

  1. air

  2. sunlight

  3. water

  4. soil


Correct Option: D

All the following are macronutrients, except

  1. calcium

  2. phosphorus

  3. iron

  4. sulphur


Correct Option: C

Find the odd one out.

  1. Paddy

  2. Maize

  3. Cotton

  4. Mustard


Correct Option: C

Crossing between genetically dissimilar plant varieties is known as

  1. cropping

  2. hybridization

  3. tissue culture

  4. insemination


Correct Option: B

Air supplies _______ and ______to crops, living beings

  1. C and H

  2. C and O

  3. H and O

  4. C, H and O


Correct Option: D

Vermicomposting is hastened by ________ .

  1. chemicals

  2. earthworms

  3. birds

  4. insects


Correct Option: B

The practice of growing two or more crops simultaneously in a fixed pattern is known as

  1. mixed cropping

  2. intercropping

  3. intracropping

  4. crop rotation


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The practice of growing two or more crops simultaneously in a fixed pattern is known as intercropping.

What is the function of pesticides?

  1. It kills insects.

  2. It kills plantlets.

  3. It destroys weeds.

  4. Pesticides are used against pests.


Correct Option: D

Weeds should be removed from a crop field as early as possible, because

  1. they compete for food, space and light with the main crop.

  2. they take up nutrients from the soil, leaving fewer nutrients for the main crop.

  3. they reduce the yield of the main crop.

  4. all of the of the above


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is composed of inorganic matter, which supplies nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to the plants?

  1. Manure

  2. Pesticides

  3. Weedicides

  4. Fertilizers


Correct Option: D

Manure is prepared by ________ of animal excreta and plant waste.

  1. chemicals

  2. decomposition

  3. aeration

  4. denitrification


Correct Option: B

Manure contains large quantities of ________ matter.

  1. chemical

  2. organic

  3. inorganic

  4. physical


Correct Option: B

Which of the following elements is not mainly supplied by fertilizers?

  1. N

  2. P

  3. Na

  4. K


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is not a biotic factor affecting crop production?

  1. Drought

  2. Salinity

  3. Water-logging

  4. Diseases


Correct Option: D
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