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If there is low rainfall in a village throughout the year, what measures will you suggest to the farmers for better cropping .

The following measures will be taken for better cropping


(i) Reduce tilling;


(ii) Enrich soil with humus which will increase its water holding capacity;


(iii) Use of drought resistant and early maturing varieties of crop plants.


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Give one word for the following:

(a) Farming without the use of chemicals as fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides is known as ...


(b) Growing of wheat and groundnut of the same field in called ...


(c) Planting of soybean and maize in alternate rows in the same field is called …..


(d) Growing different crops on a place on a piece of land in pre planned succession is known as ....


(e) Xanthium and Parthenium are commonly Known as....


(f) Causal organism of any disease is called as......

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Match column A and Column B











Column A



Column B



(a) Milch


(b) Sahiwal, Red Sindhi


(c) Cattle used for tilling and carting


(d) Indian breed of chicken


(e) Chicken better fed for obtaining meat



(i) Milk producing female


(ii) Broiler


(iii) Draught animals


(iv) Local breed of cattle


(v) Aseel obtaining meat


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Group the following and tabulate them as energy yielding, protein yielding, oil yielding and fodder crop: Wheat, Rice, berseem, Maize Gram, Oat, Pigeon gram, Sudan grass, Lentil, Soybean, Groundnut, Castor and mustard.

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Define the terms hybridization and photoperiod.