NTSE Level Test: Agriculture - Class 10

Rabi crops or rabi harvest are agricultural crops that are sown in winter and harvested in the spring in India and Pakistan. 

The Bhoodan Movement or Land Gift Movement was a voluntary land reform movement in India. It was initiated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village, which is now in Telangana, and known as Bhoodan Pochampally.

There is a short season between Kharif and Rabi season in the months of March to July. In general, Zaid crops are crops that grow in this season. Also, these grow on irrigated lands. So we do not have to wait for monsoons to grow them. Some examples of Zaid crops are watermelon, pumpkin, cucumber, bitter gourd.

Pulses are grown as rotation crop because pulses are leguminous crop which changes atmospheric nitrogen into nitrates and restores the fertility of the soil.

Maize is a crop which is used both as a food crop and fodder crop.

It is a kharif crop that requires temperature between 21°C to 27°C and grows well in old alluvial soil. In some states like Bihar maize is grown in rabi season also.

Clubbing or consolidation of land holdings is generally the term that is being used  when the group of small land holdings are being combined with the large ones.

Kharif crops are usually sown with the beginning of the first rains during the advent of the south-west monsoon season, and they are harvested at the end of monsoon season (September-Oct). 

These crops are dependent on the quantity of rainwater as well as its timing.

Cotton is a kharif crop and requires high temperature, light rainfall or irrigation, 210 frost free days and bright  sunshine for its growth. Rainfall at the time of bursting of the cotton balls is harmful as it spoils the cotton balls and hence cannot be grown in Assam.

Wheat, barley, mustard and green peas are some of the major rabi types of crops that grow in India.

Oranges are mostly grown in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Rajasthan, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Karnataka.

The top Grapes producing states include Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Mizoram. 

There is a short season between Kharif and Rabi season in the months of March to July. In general, Zaid crops are crops that grow in this season. Also, these grow on irrigated lands. So we do not have to wait for monsoons to grow them. Some examples of Zaid crops are watermelon, pumpkin, cucumber, bitter gourd.

Intensive subsistence farming is practiced in areas of high population pressure on land. In this type of farming, the agricultural production is increased by using high doses of biochemical inputs and better agricultural inputs.

Boro is a winter season, photo-insensitive, transplanted rice cultivated on supplemental irrigation. This gives the farmers a chance to grow a rabi season crop which normally they could not grow.

Commercial agricultural or farming operations are a form of agriculture/farming in which only crops are harvested for commercial use.

It is an upgraded, large-scale method of farming.

Labor, land and machinery are used in this method of farming.