Question:
What are weeds?
Answer:
Weeds are unwanted plant species growing in the domesticated crops. The noxious weeds are harmful, adversely affecting crop productivity, causing health hazards in humans and animals and lowering fish production.
Improvement in Food Resources
Q 1.
Based on kinds of biological material used, how many types of manures are there?
Q 2.
What is the full form of IARI?
Q 3.
Name some pulses that give us proteins.
Q 4.
What are draught animals?
Q 5.
Name the revolution which led to better and efficient production and availability of milk.
Q 6.
Fertilizers are useful for short term benefits or long-term benefits?
Q 7.
Give examples of fumigants.
Q 8.
Out of manures and fertilizers, which one is nutrient specific?
Q 9.
What are fertilizers? Give two examples.
Q 10.
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_______ and _________ are a rich source of vitamins and minerals.
Q 11.
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Marine fish capture is done by fishing nets guided by _______ and ________.
Q 12.
From where do plants acquire the following nutrients?
(i) Nitrogen
(ii) Hydrogen
Q 14.
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The science of growing vegetables, fruits and ornamental plants is called _________.
Q 15.
Manures are useful for short term benefits or long-term benefits?
Q 16.
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The practice of growing two or more crops simultaneously on the same field is called _____.
Q 17.
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Nutrients required by plants in large quantities are called ________.
Q 18.
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The basic advantages of inter-cropping are that it maintains soil _____ and controls _____.
Q 20.
What are Macro-nutrients?
Q 21.
Give examples of fodder crops.
Q 22.
What are the desirable agronomic characteristics for crop improvement?
Q 23.
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__________ and _________ provide us with all our animal and plant food.
Q 24.
What is vermicompost?
Q 25.
Define inter-cropping.
Q 26.
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_______ and ________ are the main sources of nutrient supply to crops.
Q 27.
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Cattle used for farm labour is called ______.
Q 28.
What is domestication?
Q 29.
List the nutrients that plants absorb from soil.
Q 30.
Name the approaches used to enhance crop yield.
Q 31.
Name the nutrients that plants take from air?
Q 32.
What is mixed cropping?
Q 33.
Give examples of Pesticides
Q 34.
Give examples of oilseeds that provide us fats.
Q 35.
Name the biotic factors that affect on crop production.
Q 36.
List examples of Macro-nutrients for plants?
Q 37.
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Vitamin ___ and ____ (A, B, C, D , K) levels are kept high in the poultry feeds.
Q 38.
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Xanthium, Cyperinus rotundus and Parthenium plants generally grow along paddy plants. Such plants are called ____.
Q 39.
Give examples of cereals that give us carbohydrates.
Q 41.
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In order to get maximum returns, different crop combinations are grown on the same field in a pre-planned succession. This process is called _______.
Q 42.
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Bos indicus are the species of ________.
Q 43.
Name the programmes executed in India to increase food production.
Q 45.
Name the two common weeds of wheat and rice crop.
Q 46.
Give examples of commonly used irrigation systems in our country?
Q 47.
What is organic farming?
Q 48.
What is the full form of NPK?
Q 49.
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Composting done using earthworms is called _________.
Q 50.
What are the major sources of food? Name the commercial practices we perform to obtain the food.
