Short Answer Questions.
1. What is a crop?
2. What do you mean by produce?
3. What do you mean by the term agricultural practice?
4. Explain the term levelling.
5. What are the advantages of levelling?
6. What is a plough?
7. What is a cultivator?
8. Explain the term transplantation.
9. What are the advantages of manure?
10. What are weedicides? Give some examples.
Answers
1. A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.
2. Produce refers to crops and other agricultural products sold by farmers.
3. Agricultural practices are a collection of principles to apply for farm production processes in order to get better agricultural products.
4. Levelling is basically making the land even before growing crops. It refers to the preparation of the irrigation plot in a way that no high and/or low spots disturb the uniform distribution of irrigation water on the field and ensures the optimal slope for water movement across a field when irrigated.
5. i).The levelling of ploughed fields prevents the top fertile soil from being carried away by strong winds or washed away by rain water.
ii).The levelling of ploughed fields helps in the uniform distribution of water in the fields during irrigation.
iii).It helps in the destruction of weeds and it also helps in sowing the seeds uniformly, and thus helps the plants to grow uniformly too.
6. Plough is a farm tool with heavy blades that cuts through the soil.
7. Cultivator is a tool used for ploughing which has a strong iron plate attached to the long rod acts like a blade and helps to loosen the soil and remove weeds.
8. The process of removing a plant from the place where it has been growing and replanting it in another is called transplantation.
9. i).It enhances the water holding capacity of the soil.
ii).It makes the soil porous due to which the exchange of gases become easy.
iii).It increases the number of useful microbes in the soil.
iv)It improves the texture of the soil.
10. Weedicides are the chemicals which are sprayed over a field to get rid of weeds. Examples are 2,4-D Ethyl ester and Dalapon
Explanation:
Tithe and Taille were taxes levied by the French government. ... Taille was a direct land tax. 2. Tithe was levied on both noble and common man.. While Taille was levied on the French peasantry and non nobles in Ancient Regime France.