Chapter Name : Crop Production And Management |
Sub Topic Code : 103_08_01_02_01 |
Topic Name : Agricultural Practices |
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Sub Topic Name : Preparation Of Soil |
Soil - natural body consists of layers is composed of minerals. It is the end product of the influence of climate, temperature, time, organisms, parent materials and relief.
How is soil prepared? What kind of soil is required to grow crops?
Farms, fields where farmers are at work. Also videos about preparation of soil.
How can fertility of soil be improved without using any chemicals?
Key Words | Definitions (pref. in our own words) |
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Conventional tillage | Crops planted with use of moldboard plow |
Reduced tillage | Done with help of chisel plow |
Conservation tillage | No tillage is done and seeds are directly planted into previous season's crop residue. |
Gadgets | How it can be used |
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Moldboard plow and chisel plow | Both are used to prepare the soil and then sow the seeds |
Farms and fields where crops are grown
Examples | Explainations |
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Gardening | While we sow seeds in our gardens we use the conservation tillage technique of preparing soil as we directly sow the seed into previous plants residue |
How soil is prepared.
What kind of soil each plant requires and what kind of tillage needs to be done.
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