indian agriculture & animal husbandry section 6 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (d)

Plucking and pruning are the methods employed in tea. Pruning is a vital operation for tea management to limit the top growth and to stimulate the growth of the bush.

Pruning is a process to the tea bush at a certain height to control the vertical growth and allow it to expand horizontally for comfortable plucking with renewed and vigorous branching pattern.

Some objectives of pruning are:

1. to check the reproductive growth and provide a stimulus for vegetative growth especially for the production of young shoot that constitutes the crop;
2. to remove the dead wear and unproductive wood;
3. to renew the actively growing branches which can support the sufficient volume of maintenance foliage on it;
4. to maintain the height and dead frame for economic plucking;
5. to increase the growth hormone for vegetative growth;
6. to derive store energy for the production of the growing shoot, and
7. to reduce the incidence of pest and diseases which help to rejuvenate the bushes for maximum cross production.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (b)

Sorghum is a genus of plants in the grass family. One species is grown for grain and many of which are used as fodder plants. Millets are a group of highly variable smallseeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Thus, Sorghum is categorized as millet.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (a)