Crop Production and Management (50+ Very Short Question and Answers)
Q1: Define agriculture.
Answer: Cultivation of plants and rearing of animals for food and other beneficial items is called agriculture.
Q2: Where do animals get their food?
Answer: Animals get their food by eating other animals or plants.
Q3: What do you mean by crop?
Answer: Plants which are of the same kind and grown and cultivated at a place in large quantities are known as the crop.
Q4: Name two broad cropping patterns.
Answer: 1. Kharif crops
2. Rabi crops
Q5: Give two examples of Kharif crops.
Answer: 1. Paddy 2. Maize
Q6: Give two examples of Rabi crops.
Answer: 1. Wheat 2. Gram
Q7: Define agricultural practices?
Answer: Various steps followed in growing crops and storing the crop grains is known as agricultural practices.
Q8: Define the term tilling or ploughing.
Answer: Tilling or Ploughing is the process of loosening and turning of the soil.
Q9: What is plough?
Answer: The device used for ploughing is called plough.
Q10: Name any two materials used to make a plough.
Answer: Wood and iron are used to make a plough.
Q11: Define crumbs.
Answer: Big pieces of soil are called crumbs.
Q12: Name any three tools used in agriculture.
Answer: Plough, hoe and cultivator are used in agriculture.
Q13: Write any two uses of a plough.
Answer:
1. It is used in tilling of the soil.
2. It is used to remove weeds.
Q14: Write any two uses of a hoe.
Answer:
1. It is used to loosen the soil.
2. It is used to remove weeds.
Q15: What is the traditional tool used for sowing?
Answer: For sowing of seed, traditionally, a funnel-shaped tool was used.
Q16: Define manure.
Answer: Manure is the natural substance obtained by decomposition of plants, animals and human waste.
Q17: What do you mean by manuring?
Answer: The process of providing manure to replenish the soil with nutrients is called manuring.
Q18: What are fertilizers?
Answer: Fertilizers are the chemical substances which are rich in a particular nutrient.
Q19: Out of manure and fertilizers, which one is a better choice?
Answer: Using manure is better than using fertilizers.
Q20: What do you mean by irrigation?
Answer: Irrigation is the process of providing water to crops in different intervals of time.
Q21: Is time and frequency of irrigation same of all crops?
Answer: Time and frequency of irrigation is different for each crop.
Q22: Name some sources of irrigation.
Answer: Some sources of irrigation are, wells, tubewells, ponds, rivers, canals, etc.
Q23: Name some traditional methods of irrigaion.
Answer:
1. Moat
2. Chain Pump
3. Dhekli
4. Rahat(Lever System)
Q24: What is the use of pumps?
Answer: Pumps are mainly used for lifting water.
Q25: What are the modern methods of irrigation?
Answer: 1. Sprinkler System 2. Drip System
Q26: What are weeds?
Answer: Unwanted plants growing naturally along with the main crop are known as weeds.
Q27: What is weeding?
Answer: Process of removing weed is known as weeding.
Q28: What are weedicides?
Answer: Chemical substances used to control the growth of weeds is known as weedicides.
Q29: Name a weedicide which is commonly used by farmers.
Answer: The weedicide commonly used by the farmers is 2, 4-D.
Q30: What is harvesting?
Answer: Harvesting is the process of cutting of crops.
Q31: What is threshing?
Answer: Process of seperating grain from the chaff is known as threshing.
Q32: What is a fallow field?
Answer: A field which is left uncultivated for a couple of seasons is called a fallow field.
Q33: Define winnowing.
Answer: The process of separation of grains from the chaff.
Q34: Name some harvest festivals.
Answer: Pongal, Baisakhi, Nabanya, Bihu, etc.
Q35: What do you mean by storage?
Answer: Process of keeping grains for a long time by saving them from moisture, insects, rats and microorganisms is called storage.
Q36: Why is it necessary to dry grains before storage?
Answer: Grains are properly dried in the sun to reduce the moisture in them. This prevents the attack by insects, pests, fungi and bacteria during storage.
Q37: Name two devices which are used to store grains at large scale.
Answer: 1. Silos 2. Granaries
Q38: Name some animals which provide food.
Answer: Cow, buffalo, hen, fish, etc. Are some of the animals which provide food.
Q39: Name two animals which give milk.
Answer: 1. Cow 2. Buffalo
Q40: Name three animals which provide meat.
Answer: Goat, hen and fish.
Q41: What is animal husbandry?
Answer: Animal husbandry is the process of rearing of animals at home or farms by providing them with proper food, shelter and care.
Q42: What vitamin is found in cod liver oil?
Answer: Vitamin D.
Q43: What is the best time for weeding?
Answer: Best time for weeding is before crop plants produce flowers and seeds.
Q44: Name two main parts of the plough.
Answer: 1. Plough share 2. Plough shaft
Q45: Name one fertilizer which is rich in nitrogen.
Answer: Urea.
Q46: How does green plants synthesize their food?
Answer: Green plants use photosynthesis to make thier own food.
Q47: Name the machine which combines harvester and thresher.
Answer: Combine
Q48: Which one from fertilizers or manure has long term objective?
Answer: Manure
Q49: A long wooden beam which turns around a lever. A bucket is fitted at the longer end of the beam and shorter end is pressed and raised to fill and lift water. Identify the tool.
Answer: Dekhli
Q50: Name the implement also called as Persian Wheel.
Answer: Rahat
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