General Agriculture

Agricultural Engineering · “Counter poise lift” is commonly used to lift water from shallow wells. · “Rope and bucket lift” is the most common water lift in India to draw water from deep wells. · Centrifugal pump mainly consists of two parts. 1. Impeller (or) rotor: Which add energy to the …

Silvicultural System of Concentrated Regeneration a) Clear Felling System: i) Clear Felling System: Defined as Silvicultural System in which equal or equi-productive areas of mature crop are successively clear felled in one operation to be regenerated most frequently, artifcially but sometimes naturally also. Regeneration: 1) Artificial: a) Deptt. plantation b) Taungya i) …

India since ages has been known to be an agrarian country as nearly 60% of its population is dependent on agriculture for living. During the mid-1960s, India suffered a shortage of agricultural products that later on led to the green revolution that revolutionized the agricultural sector. India not only was …

BIOTECHNOLOGY Starch Slurry in Water (Liquefaction Bacterial amylase, 550C +Dextrins) (Saccarification Fungal amylase) Maltose (Amylo glucosidae) Glucose (Partial isomerization) Fructose + glucose · Variation created in tissue culture is called “Somaclonal variation”. · The specialized cells (B – cells) in the spleen and lymph glands release antibodies. · Monoclonal antibodies …

The better defined and more stable units of forest vegetation are referred to as Forest Types or Unit of vegetation which possesses characteristics in physiognomy and structure to permit its differentiation from such other units is called as Forest types: Champion and Seth have Differentiated 16 Climatic Forest types are as below …

Introduction of Pests and diseases Potato tuber moth from Italy; Wooly aphids of apple and fluted scales of citrus from Australia. · False smut of Wheat – Australia; Coffee rust and Bunchy top of banana – Sri Lanka. · Adoptation of a variety to a new environment is knows as “acclimatization”. …