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Answer to: How do you differentiate between capture fishing, mariculture, and aquaculture?

Capture fishing: It is the fishing in which fishes are captured from natural resources like pond, sea, estuaries. Mariculture : It is the culture of...

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Answer to: For increasing production, what is common in poultry, fisheries and bee-keeping?

Through cross breeding, the production of poultry, fisheries and bee keeping can be increased.

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Answer to: What are the benefits of cattle farming?

Cattle farming is beneficial in the given ways: Milk production is increased by high yielding animals. Good quality of meat, fibre and skin can b...

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Answer to: How do good animal husbandry practices benefit farmers?

Good animal husbandry practices are beneficial to the farmers in the following ways: Improvement of breeds of the domesticated animals. Increasin...

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Answer to: How do storage grain losses occur?

The factors responsible for loss of grains during storage are: Abiotic factors like moisture (present in food grains), humidity (of air) and tempe...

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Answer to: What is genetic manipulation? How is it useful in agricultural practices?

Genetic manipulation is a process of transferring of desirable characters (genes) from one plant to another plant. This is done for production of vari...

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Answer to: What are the advantages of inter-cropping and crop rotation?

Advantages of using intercropping are as follows: It helps to maintain soil fertility. It increases productivity per unit area. It saves labour ...

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Answer to: Why are manure and fertilisers used in fields?

They are major sources of nutrients of plants. They are used to ensure good vegetative growth (leaves, branches and flowers) and production of healthy...

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Answer to: Explain any one method of crop production which ensures high yield.

One method used for crop production which ensures high yield is plant breeding. It is the science involved in improving the varieties of crops by bree...

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Answer to: What is pasturage and how is it related to honey production?

The pasturage refers to the available land area covered with green vegetation. In addition to adequate quantities of pasturage, the kind of flowers av...

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Answer to: What are the desirable characters of bee varieties suitable for honey production?

(i) The variety of bee should be able to collect a large amount of honey. (ii) They should stay in a given beehive for a longer period. (iii) They...

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Answer to: What are the advantages of composite fish culture?

In composite fish culture, a combination of five or six fish species is used in a single fish pond. These species are selected so that they do not com...

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Answer to: How are fish obtained?

There are two ways of obtaining fish. One is from natural resources, which is called capture fishing. The other way is by fish farming, which is calle...

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Answer to: What are the differences between broilers and layers and in their management?

The poultry bird groomed of obtaining meat is called broiler. The egg laying poultry bird is called layer. The housing, nutritional and environmental ...

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Answer to: What management practices are common in dairy and poultry farming?

Shelter : Dairy animals and poultry birds require proper shelter, i.e., well designed diary and hygienic shelter. Feeding : To get good yields of fo...

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Answer to: Discuss the implications of the following statement: “It is interesting to note that poultry is India’s most efficient converter of low fibre food stuff into highly nutritious animal protein food.”

The basic aim of poultry farming is to raise domestic fowl for egg production and chicken meat. These poultry birds are not only the efficient convert...

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Answer to: Which method is commonly used for improving cattle breeds and why?

Cross-breeding is a process in which indigenous varieties of cattle are crossed by exotic breeds to get a breed which is high yielding. During cross-b...

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