C. Answer in brief. 1. Define agriculture. 2. What are the factors on which different types of agriculture depend? 3. Write any two features of commercial farming. 4. What geographical conditions are required to grow rice? Mention the measures adopted under green revolution.
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Answer: 1. Agriculture the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
2.Climate,soil,topography
3.Characteristics of commercial farming are: Farmer use of higher doses of modern inputs, e.g. high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, chemical fertilisers insecticides and pesticides. Farmer obtain higher productivity from land due to high doses of inputs.
4.Rice grows best in areas of warm, humid climate; rice requires temperatures between 20°C and 35°C and a well-distributed rainfall of about 100 cm or irrigation facilities.
5.The Green Revolution was a technology package comprising material components of improved high yielding varieties of two staple cereals (rice and wheat), irrigation or controlled water supply and improved moisture utilization, fertilizers, and pesticides, and associated management skills.
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