Agriculture- One Liners * Rice is a tropical crop * In Commercial farming, crops are raised on a large scale Shifting agriculture in Brazil is known as Roco. Wheat is a Temperate crop. The most intensively cultivated areas of the world are lowlands. Coffee needs dry Conditions during harvest … Read more
Agriculture 1-Union Agricultural Ministry has partnered the National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO for geotagging agricultural assets. Agriculture Ministry under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana and NRSC/ISRO have signed an MoU to this effect. 2-RKVY is a special Additional Central Assistance Scheme and it was launched in August 2007 as a part of the … Read more
Agriculture- Food Crops 1- Oil Seeds: Examples of oil seeds produced in India are groundnut, mustard, coconut, sesamum (til), soyabean, castor seeds, cotton seeds, linseed and sunflower. India is the largest producer of oilseeds in the world. Some of these are edible and used as cooking mediums. Some are also used as raw material … Read more
Agriculture Plants Propagated by Vegetative Means Plant – Methods Employed Orange- grafting Grapefruit- grafting Lemon- grafting Banana- sucker removal Pineapple- stem cuttings Date- sucker removal Apple- grafting Grapes- stem cuttings, grafting Tea—- stem cuttings Sugar cane- stem cuttings Jasmine- stem … Read more
Agriculture Plant products/Parts -Uses Poppy (Papaver Somniferum)- The plant from which opium (rich source of morphine) is obtained Cinchona- The plant from which anti-malarial drug quinine is obtained Cannabis – The plant from which Marijuana is obtained Coca plant- The plant from which the drug cocaine is obtained … Read more
Agriculture Scientific Name Common Name Allium Sativum- Garlic Zingiber officinale- Ginger Piper nigrum- Black Pepper Curcuma longa- Turmeric Syzygium aromaticum- Clove Bamboosa Aridinarifolia- Bamboo Ficus Benghalensis- Banyan Santalum Album- Sandalwood Azadhirachta Indica- Neem Murraya koenigii- Curry plant (leaves) Nicotina Tobaccum- Tobacco … Read more
Agriculture in India -Important Points 1- The history of Agriculture in India dates back to Indus Valley Civilization Era and even before that in some parts of Southern India. 2-India ranks second worldwide in farm output. 3-India exported $39 billion worth of agricultural products in 2013, making it the seventh largest agricultural exporter worldwide … Read more
Agriculture 1-The scientific study of soil is called pedology. 2-The Minimum Support Price for Foodgrains was introduced in the year 1964. 3-Triticum aestivum, the common bread wheat is hexaploid. 4- In 1966 , the adoption of High Yielding Variety Programme in Indian Agriculture has started. 5-The Black rust of disease of wheat is caused by … Read more
Names of Botanical Gardens and their locations Agri Horticultural Society of India Alipore, Kolkata Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden Shibpur, Kolkata Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden Guwahati Aligarh Fort Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Botanical Garden of the Department of Applied Botany Mangalore University, Karnataka Botanical Garden Chandigarh Curzon Park, Mysore Karnataka Empress Garden Pune Government … Read more
Agriculture -Facts 1-More than 6,000 different kinds of apples are grown around the world. 2-Tractors were invented in the 1880s to pull plows through fields 3-Guinea pig farms can be found in Peru and other Latin American countries 4-There are around 2.2 million farms in the United States 5-Pigs, a common farm animal, are thought … Read more