1. What do you mean by crops. Classify crops into two broad types with examples basing on the
cropping patterns.
Answers
☢️crop.....
⚡plants grown for food on a large-scale are known as crops.....
☢️Sequential/Non-overlapped Cropping....
Growing of two or more crops in quick succession on the same piece of land in a farming year. The swing of the succeeding crop and harvesting of the preceding crop may be done simultaneously or in a quick succession e.g. Just after the harvest of Maize Potato is sown and just after digging of potato. Chili is sown.
☢️Relay/Overlapped Cropping.......
Relay planting is interring planting or inter sowing of seeds/seedlings of the succeeding crop before harvesting the preceding/maturing crop.
Relay planting is interring planting or inter sowing of seeds/seedlings of the succeeding crop before harvesting the preceding/maturing crop.1. Generally 2nd crop is planted after the first crop has reach its reproductive stage of growth e.g. Potato is planted before the harvest of Maize and Radish is sown before harvesting of Potato.
Relay planting is interring planting or inter sowing of seeds/seedlings of the succeeding crop before harvesting the preceding/maturing crop.1. Generally 2nd crop is planted after the first crop has reach its reproductive stage of growth e.g. Potato is planted before the harvest of Maize and Radish is sown before harvesting of Potato.2. Paira (Bihar & WB) and Utera (MP) cropping are also referred as an example of relay cropping. Paira/Utera cropping means sowing of Lathyrus or Lentil before the harvest of rice in lowland area with an objective to use the residual moisture of rice field.
Explanation:
plants grown for food on a large scale are known as crops