Agriculture One Liner Facts For
Agriculture Competitive Exams
- Crops grown along Irrigation & drainage channel are
☑️Riparian crops
- Nutrient which if taken in excess is known as luxury consumption
☑️Potassium
- Seed work board is required for
☑️Bleeding of seed
☑️Organic Farming
- All the grain legumes have a high photo respiration because of
☑️C3 Mechanism
- Hydraulic conductivity of soils varies directly with
☑️Total porosity
- In a good quality manure C/N Ratio should not be more than
☑️10
- ' Tarai ' soils are deficient in
☑️Zn
- Permanent soil property is
☑️Soil texture
☑️Hoeing before germination
- Head quarter of Rainfed Authority of India is located at
☑️New Delhi
- LAI ( Leaf area index) concept was given by
☑️Watson, 1948
- In which soils Group drainage facility especially required
☑️Black Soils
- Anti transpirants also reduce
☑️Plant photosynthesis
- Which gas is a effective Anti transpirants
☑️CO2
- Silviculture + Pasture management known as
☑️Sylvo-pastoral System
- Which soil conservation measures are adopted if land slop is > 2%
☑️Mechanical measures
- Contour bunding is mostly used in
☑️Arid & Semi Arid areas where slope is up to 6%
- Graded bunding is recommended for those area where annual rainfall is
☑️>800mm
- BBF (Broad Bed & Furrow System) is mostly used for which type of soils
☑️Deep black soil
- BBF method widely practiced in which crop
☑️Groundnut
- Plant most suitable for Soil conservation as a vegetative barriers
☑️Khus (Vetteria zelanica)
- Soil conservation method mostly used in Coffee gardens
☑️Vertical mulching
- Lines joining equal elevation called as
☑️Contour
- Instrument used to measure height
☑️Altimeter
- > 2.5 mm rains during 24 hrs called as
☑️Rainy day
- Contribution of N. E. Monsoon in Indian rainfall amount
☑️15%
- Which monsoon also known as Retarding monsoon
☑️North East Monsoon
- Chemical used for warm clouds
☑️NaCl (Sodium Chloride)
- Short range of weather forecasting is
☑️< 3 days or up to 72 hrs
- Long range of weather forecasting is
☑️> 10 days
- One Cucec water is equal to
☑️28.3 litres
- According to CRIDA depth of shallow ploughing
☑️5 - 6 cm
- According to CRIDA depth of deep ploughing
☑️25 - 30 cm
- Irrigation method which is most common among surface method
☑️Check Basin Method
- Suitable Irrigation method for fruits
☑️Ring basin method
- Irrigation method which is suitable with a slope of 0.5-1% but not for sandy soils
☑️Border strip method
- Sprinkler system is not suitable for
☑️Rice & Jute and heavy clay soils
- Water discharge rate of sprinkler irrigation
☑️> 1000 lit/ha
- Sprinkler pressure required for sprinkler irrigation system
☑️2.5 to 4.5 kg/cm.sq
- Emmitters are important part of
☑️Drip Irrigation
- Irrigation method suitable for salt affected soils
☑️Drip Irrigation
- Size of BBF (Broad bed and furrow method)
☑️150 cm width of bed and 45 cm wide furrow
- Mole drainage is suitable for
☑️Clay Soils
- The energy by which water is held by soils is known as
☑️Capillary Potential
- Water loss from Irrigation channel /canal is mostly due to
☑️Seepage
- Downward movement of nutrients & salts from the root zone with water known as
☑️Leaching
- When all the soil pores are filled with water at a tension of zero bars is known as
☑️Saturation capacity
- Permanent Wilting Point (PWP) was proposed by
☑️Briggs & Shantz
- Which is upper lower limit of water availability in plants
☑️Upper : Field capacity & Lower : PWP.
- Soil Moisture tension at PWP is
☑️15 Bars or 15 ATM
- At field capacity, the soil Water Potential is
☑️-0.1 to - 0.3 bars.
- The percentage of moisture in root zone at the PWP of plants called
☑️Wilting coefficient
- Portion of capillary water held between field capacity to PWP known as
☑️Available water.
