Cropping and Farming system one liner
Quest.The repetitive cultivation of an ordered succession of crops or crops and fallow on the same land is called as
Ans.Crop rotation
Quest.Which of the following rotations is likely to leave soil richer in organic matter?
Ans.Maize – Oats – Clovers
Quest.Crop rotation practiced by the majority of the farmers in a given area or locality is called as
Ans.Cropping Pattern
Quest.The most prominent and adopted cropping pattern in India
Ans.Rice – Wheat.
Quest.The cropping pattern used on a farm and its interactions with farm resources, other farm enterprises and available technology which determine their makeup is called as
Ans.Cropping system (Farming system One Liner)
Quest.An appropriate combination of farm enterprises viz., cropping system, livestock, poultry,fisheries and the means available to the farmer to raise them for increasing profitability is called as
Ans.Farming system
Quest.The raising of animals along with crop production is
Ans.Mixed farming
Quest.Growing of two or more crops simultaneously and intermingled without row arrangements, wherethere is significant amount of intercrop competition is called as
Ans.Mixed cropping
Quest.Growing of two or more crops simultaneously in alternate rows or otherwise in the same area, where there is significant amount of inter crop competition is called as
Ans.Intercropping
Quest.One crop variety grown alone in pure stands at normal density in a field
Ans.Sole cropping(Farming system One Liner)
Quest.The repetitive growing of the same sole crop on the same land is termed as
Ans.Monoculture
Quest.The growing of more than one crop on the same land in one year is termed as
Ans.Multiple cropping
Quest.Growing of two or more crops in quick succession on the same piece of land in a farming year is termed as
Ans.Sequential/non-overlapping cropping
Quest.A cropping system where the land is hands over the succeeding crop before the harvest of standing crop.
Ans.Relay or overlapping cropping
Quest.Two or more than two crops of different heights cultivated simultaneously on the same field is called as
Ans.Multistoreyed/Multitired/Multi-level cropping(Farming system One Liner)
Quest.Such crops have different growth habits and zero competition to each other.
Ans.Parallel cropping
Quest.The cropping system beneficial to prevent soil erosion due to winds is
Ans.Strip cropping
Quest.Cropping intensity of maize-potato-wheat
Ans.300%
Quest.The example of parallel cropping is
Ans.Urd/Moong + Maize
Quest.Paira and Utera cropping are most probable in
Ans.Bihar, MP and Chhattisgarh state(Farming system One Liner)
Quest.When the productions of both inter crops is equal to that of its solid planting.
Ans.Companion cropping
Quest.Synergetic cropping means
Ans.When yield of both the crops are higher than their pure crops on unit area e.g.
Sugarcane + Potato
Quest.What does ‘jhuming’ refers to
Ans.Traditional method of cultivation in hilly area
Quest.The formulae of cropping intensity is
Ans.C.I. (%) =Total Cropped Area/Net Sown Area*100
Quest.The average cropping intensity of India
Ans.135%(Farming system One Liner)
Quest.The formulae of rotational intensity
Ans.R.I. (%) =No. f crops grown in rotation/Duration Of the rotation*100
Quest.“Relative land area under sole crop required to produce the same yield as obtained under a mixed or intercropping system at the same level of management is termed as
Ans.Land equivalent ratio (LER)
Quest.Sustainability Yield index value lies between
Ans.0 to +1
Quest.The formulae of cropping index is
Ans.C.I. (%) =Total Cropped Area/Net Sown Area*100
Quest.Organic farming excludes the application of
Ans.Fertilizers(Farming system One Liner)
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