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Farming Practices

Description: Farming Practices
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 The process of cultivation of crop plants is known as _______.

  1. Silviculture

  2. Agriculture

  3. Horticulture

  4. Generation


Correct Option: B
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Air supplies _______ and ______to crops and living beings.

  1. carbon and hydrogen

  2. carbon and oxygen

  3. hydrogen and oxygen

  4. carbon, hydrogen and oxygen


Correct Option: D
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Which of the following is TRUE for threshing?

  1. The separation of best quality grains from the crops.

  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
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Crossing between genetically dissimilar plant varieties is known as

  1. cropping

  2. hybridisation

  3. tissue culture

  4. insemination


Correct Option: B
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Vermicomposting is done by

  1. chemicals

  2. earthworms

  3. birds

  4. insects


Correct Option: B
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Horticulture includes the

  1. propagation of fishes

  2. propagation of honey bees

  3. propagation of garden plants

  4. propagation of milk animals


Correct Option: C
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Which of the following is a biotic factor that affects crop production?

  1. Drought

  2. Salinity

  3. Waterlogging

  4. Diseases


Correct Option: D
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Which of the following elements is not mainly supplied by fertilisers?

  1. N

  2. P

  3. Na

  4. K


Correct Option: C
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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 less nutrients for the main crop

  3. they reduce the yield of the main crop

  4. all of the above


Correct Option: D
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Manure is prepared by ________ of animal excreta and plant waste.

  1. chemicals

  2. decomposition

  3. aeration

  4. denitrification


Correct Option: B
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