3.agriculture Flashcards
Sericulture
Commercial rearing of silk worms
it may suppliment the income of the farmer
Pisciculture
Breeding of fish in specially constructed tank and ponds
Viticulture
Cultivation of grapes
Horticulture
Growing vegetables flowers and fruits for commercial use
Subsistence farming meaning
It seems like you’re referring to subsistence farming, which is a type of agriculture where farmers grow food primarily to feed themselves and their families, with little or no surplus for trade or sale.
Intensive Subsistance agriculture
Intensive subsistence farming is a type of agriculture where farmers use small plots of land with high labor input to grow enough food to meet the needs of their families,
often in densely populated regions.
Primitive Subsistance agriculture
It include shifting cultivation and nomadic herding
Shifting cultivation was called if difference places
- North East India
2.Mexico - Brazil
4.Malaysia
- Jhumming
- Milpa
- roka
- ladang
Where mixed farming is practiced
Europe stand USA Argentina south east Australia New Zealand and South Africa
Mixed farming is a type of farming which involves both the growing of crops and the raising of livestock
What is plantations
Plantationa are a type of commercial farming where single crop of tea coffee sugarcane casual rubber banana or cotton are grown
Largest producer of coffee
Brazil
Largest producer of tea
1.china
2.india
Largest producer of rice
1.china
2.india. (west bengal)
In India we are grown in which season
Winters
Benefits of growing millet
Can be grown on left fertile soil
Sandy soil
Needs low rainfall
Largest producer of the millet
India(rajasthan)
Nigeria and China niger
Conditions maze required to grow
Maize requires moderate temperature rainfall and lots of shunshine
In which soil the cotton grows best
black (regur )
and alluvial soil
Largest cotton producer
India (Gujarat)
China
brazil
USA
Conditions to grow the cotton
Cotton required high temperature
light rainfall
Bright sunshine
Which is called golden fibre
Jute
Largest producer of jute
India (west bengal)
2.bangladesh
Conditions required for jute
(West bengal
) well on alluvial soil
required high temperature
heavy rainfall
humid climate
Conditions required to grow coffee
Heel slopes are more suitable for coffee
Laterite soil is best
Coffee required warm and wet climate
well drained loamy soil
