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Answer to: How are crops useful to us? What do they provide?

Crops provide us food for our daily body nutrient. Carbohydrate for energy Requirement – Cereals such as wheat, rice, maize. Protein for body b...

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Answer to: What decides the quantity and quality of honey production in apiary?

For quality of honey: The pasturage, i.e., the kind of flowers available to the bees for nectar and pollen collection will determine the taste of the ...

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Answer to: Name few varieties of bees used for commercial honey production.

Apis cerana indica – Indian bee A. dorsata – rock bee (local varieties) B. florae – the little bee C. mellifera – Italian bee variety

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Answer to: State the preventive and control measures used before grains are stored.

Cleaning of the grains. Proper drying of the produce in sunlight, there should be no moisture. Fumigation of produce using chemicals that kills pest...

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Answer to: What is organic farming?

It is the farming in which no chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides are used. But uses all organic matter for its growth like manure, neem le...

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Answer to: What are the harmful effects of fertilizer?

It causes soil and water pollution. Continuous use can also destroy soil fertility.

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Answer to: State the difference between manure and fertilizer.

Manure 1. It consists of organic matter. 2. Prepared from animal excreta and plant waste. 3. Its use causes no pollution. Fertilizer 1. It c...

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Answer to: How does deficiency of nutrients affect the crop?

Deficiency of any nutrient affects physiological processes in plants including reproduction, growth and susceptibility to diseases.

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Answer to: State the difference between macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients.

Macro-nutrients 1. These are required by crops in larger quantity. 2. Six macro-nutrients are: Nitrogen, phosphorus, Potassium, calcium. magnesium...

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Answer to: What are the main characters required in a crop during its improvement practices?

The useful characters that are required in a crop during its improvement: (a) Disease resistance (b) Response to fertilizer (c) Product quality...

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Answer to: What are the different ways/ methods of hybridisation?

Hybridisation can be Intervarietal – between different varieties of crops Interspecific – between two species of same genus Intergeneric – betwe...

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Answer to: What are the major group of activities involved for improvement of crop yields?

Crop variety improvement Crop production improvement Crop protection improvement

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Answer to: Name the products obtained from apiculture.

Honey and wax both are obtained from apiculture.

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Answer to: What is apiculture?

Keeping bee for obtaining honey commercially is called apiculture.

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Answer to: Name four marine fish varieties.

Pomphret, mackerel, tuna and sardines.

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Answer to: State the meaning of capture fishing and culture fishing.

Capture fishing: It is done from natural resources. Culture fishing: It is done by fish farming.

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Answer to: Name two variety of food required for milch animals.

Maintenance requirement – food required to keep animal healthy. Milk producing requirement – food required for increased lactation Animal food inclu...

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Answer to: Name two Indian cattle.

Bos indicus – cows Bos bubalis – buffaloes

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Answer to: What causes disease in plants?

It is caused by pathogens such as bacteria, fungi and viruses.

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