Question

Quick Recall
Answer the following questions briefly.
1. Why do we practice agriculture?
2. Why should we use only good quality seeds to grow crops?
3. How can we protect our crops?



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Answer 1

1. Agricultural practices are some of the methods applied to agriculture, it helps to create food for consumers as well as for safe further processing. Our farmers are the key persons for the cultivation of crops to provide food to the entire population.

2. The good quality seed has high return per unit area as the genetic potentiality of the crop can be fully exploited. Less infestation of land with weed seed/other crop seeds. Less disease and insect problem.

3.

. Pesticide-based approaches such as herbicides, insecticides and fungicides.

.Biological pest control approaches such as cover crops, trap crops and beetle banks.

.Barrier-based approaches such as agrotextiles and bird netting.

.Animal psychology-based approaches such as bird scarers.