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Shine india monthly magazine
Shine india monthly magazine published this article page no 12 it is clear from the above discussion that the scope for bringing in additional land under net sown area in india is limited. there is thus an urgent need to evolve and adopt land-saving technologies. such technologies can be classified under two heads – those which raise the yield of any particular crop per unit area of land and those which increase the total output per unit area of land from all crops grown over one agricultural year by increasing land-use intensity. the advantage of the latter kind of technology is that al...
Womens era magazine
Womens era magazine published this article page no 13 there are three distinct crop seasons in the northern and interior parts of country namely kharif rabi and zaid. the kharif season largely coincides with southwest monsoon under which the cultivation of tropical crops such as rice cotton jute jowar bajra and tur is possible. the rabi season begins with the onset of winter in october-november and ends in march-april. the low temperature conditions during this season facilitate the cultivation of temperate and subtropical crops such as wheat gram and mustard. zaid is a short duratio...
Competition success review hindi
Competition success review hindi published this article page no 14 the cultivation of watermelons cucumbers vegetables and fodder crops during this season is done on irrigated lands. however this type of distinction in the cropping season does not exist in southern parts of the country. here the temperature is high enough to grow tropical crops during any period in the year provided the soil moisture is available. therefore in this region same crops can be grown thrice in an agricultural year provi...
CSR Gktoday
CSR Gktoday published this article page no 15 on the basis of main source of moisture for crops the farming can be classified as irrigated and rainfed barani. there is difference in the nature of irrigated farming as well based on objective of irrigation i.e. protective or productive. the objective of protective irrigation is to protect the crops from adverse effects of soil moisture deficiency which often means that irrigation acts as a supplementary source of water over and above the rainfall. the strategy of this kind of irrigation is to provide soil moisture to maximum poss...
Civil services chronicle magazine
Civil services chronicle magazine published this article page no 16 rainfed farming is further classified on the basis of adequacy of soil moisture during cropping season into dryland and wetland farming. in india the dryland farming is largely confined to the regions having annual rainfall less than 75 cm. these regions grow hardy and drought resistant crops such as ragi bajra moong gram and guar fodder crops and practise various measures of soil moisture conservation and rain water harvesting. in wetland farming the rainfall is in excess of soil moisture requirement of plants durin...