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Farming Practices

Description: Farming Practices
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Which of the following is not a farming practice?

  1. Irrigation of fields

  2. Harvesting crops

  3. Storage of crops

  4. Selling crops


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (4).

Farming includes

  1. growing crops for food only

  2. keeping animals only

  3. both growing crops and keeping animals

  4. growing crops for raw materials only


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (3).

Why are manure and fertilisers added to soil?

  1. To increase fertility of soil

  2. To replenish the soil with nutrients

  3. To get better and high yield

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (4).

What does preparation of soil mean?

  1. Loosening of soil

  2. Sowing seeds into soil

  3. Irrigating the soil

  4. Weeding


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (1).

The process of separating grain from chaff is called ______________

  1. cutting

  2. threshing

  3. spinning

  4. chaffing


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (2).

The undesirable plants that grow naturally along with the main crop are called

  1. weeding

  2. weeds

  3. weedicides

  4. pests


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (2).

Which tool is used as an untraditional method of sowing seeds?

  1. Plough

  2. Hoe

  3. Seed drill

  4. Khurpi


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (3).

Which among the following are sources of irrigation? (i) Rivers (ii) Wells (iii) Tubewells (iv) Lakes (v) Dams (vi) Canals (vii) Ponds

  1. (i), (iv), (vi), (vii)

  2. (ii), (iii), (iv)

  3. (iii), (v), (vi)

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (4).

The practice of keeping fish is called

  1. fishiculture

  2. pisciculture

  3. blue revolution

  4. silver revolution


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (2).

A person practising cattle farming must be doing it for

  1. egg production

  2. honey production

  3. milk production

  4. meat production


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is option (3).

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