FINAL EXAM

Question 1

Is a type of chemical-free farming where the total cost of growing
and harvesting plants comes out to be zero. This type of farming
involves agroecology; using natural fertilizers, biological
pesticides and local seeds.

Answer 1

ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING

Question 2

only one crop is grown in a given area throughout the
year

Answer 2

MONOCULTURE

Question 3

In this system, an inter-related set
of enterprises is used so that the
“waste” from one component
becomes an input for another part
of the system.

Answer 3

INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM

Question 4

cultivation of two or more
than two crops of different heights simultaneously on a certain piece
of land in any certain period

Answer 4

MULTI-STOREY

Question 5

Anything carried out
within the farm boundary. large-scale production of
crops and farm animals
for sale using modern
technology.

Answer 5

COMMERCIAL FARMING

Question 6

The yearly sequence and spatial
arrangement of crops or of crops and fallows on a
given area

Answer 6

CROPPING PATTERN

Question 7

Form of farming in which nearly all of
the crops or livestock raised are used to
maintain the farmer and the farmer’s
family, leaving little, if any, surplus for
sale or trade.

Answer 7

SUBSISTENCE FARMING

Question 8

In this integration, mulberry is the
producer; silkworm is the first consumer
while fish is the secondary consumer,
ingesting silkworm feces are utilized by
phytoplankton, and filter-feeding fish in
turn consumes heterotrophic bacteria.

Answer 8

SERICULTURE-FISH SYSTEM

Question 9

Natural farming termed _____it’s
because the farmer is
considered only to be a
facilitator - the real work
is done by Nature herself.

Answer 9

DO NOTHING FARMING

Question 10

Horticulture crops can be grown
best on ponds’ top, inner, and outer
dykes as well as adjacent lands. Pond
water is used for irrigation, and
crops, vegetables, and fruit-bearing
plants are fertilized with silt, a highquality manure.

Answer 10

HORTICULTURE-FISH SYSTEM

Question 11

Ophicephalus striatus

Answer 11

Channa striata

Question 12

this involves the planting of
trees especially on steep slopes and heavy clay soils.
Rubber, Ipil-ipil, and Coconut are suitable trees under
this system

Answer 12

PERENNIAL MONOCULTURE

Question 13

cultivation of such crops
which have different natural
habitat and zero competition

Answer 13

PARALLEL CROPPING

Question 14

is a
combination of many systems, it
attempts to increase farmers income
using natural resources on
sustainability basis which can be
obtained by integrating crop
husbandary with allied enterprises is
called as

Answer 14

INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM

Question 15

growing of more than one
crop on the same land in one year.

Answer 15

MULTIPLE CROPPING

Question 16

Natural farming is an ecological
farming approach established by a
Japanese farmer and a philosopher.

Answer 16

MASANOBU FUKOUKA (1913-2008)

Question 17

Man exists in a state of
contradiction in which he is
basically estranged from nature,
living in a totally artificial world,
yet longs for a return to nature.

Answer 17

SCIENTIFIC FARMING

Question 18

growing of two or more
crops together, but seeding or transplanting the succeeding
one after flowering and before the harvest of the former
crop.

Answer 18

RELAY CROPPING

Question 19

growing of two or more crops in
sequence on the same field within a 12 month period,

Answer 19

SEQUENTIAL CROPPING

Question 20

the people who developed
“Natural Farming,” which is “a farming approach that
imitates the way of nature.

Answer 20

MASANOBU FUKUOKA MOKICHI OKADA

Question 21

this system utilizes both
upland and lowland annual crops like rice, corn, and
vegetables

Answer 21

ANNUAL CROP MONOCULTURE

Question 22

refers to the pattern or
arrangement of crops in time and space, as well as
the process of growing them.

Answer 22

CROPPPING SYSTEM

Question 23

who is known to be the father
of ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING

Answer 23

SUBHASH PALEKER

Question 24

is the growing of two or more crops
simultaneously on the same field such that the period of
overlap is long enough to include vegetative stage.

Answer 24

INTERCROPPING

Question 25

a
Japanese farmer and philosopher, introduced in his
1975 book

Answer 25

THE ONE-STRAW REVOLUTION

Question 26

system includes cattle-fish
system, pig-fish system, poultry-fish system,
duck-fish system, goat-fish system, rabbit-fish
system.

Answer 26

LIVESTOCK-FISH SYSTEM

Question 27

This type of farming arises when
man earnestly seeks entry to the
realm he prepares
himself to receive it.

Answer 27

HINAYANA NATURAL FARMING

Question 28

the yields of both crops are higher than of
their pure crop on unit area basis

Answer 28

SYNERGETIC CROPPING

Question 29

intercropping where the production of
both intercrops is equal to that of its solid planting

Answer 29

COMPANION CROPPING

Question 30

uses methods that
respects life, observes the law of nature
and utilizes natural products.

Answer 30

NATURAL FARMING

Question 31

refers to the detrimental effects of higher
plants of one species on the germination, growth or
development of plants of another species.

Answer 31

ALLELOPATHY

Question 32

the difference in form or
structure of the component crops especially in terms of
height, leaf distribution, and formation of the branch
will greatly influence the degree of competition

Answer 32

MORPHOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES

Question 33

refers to a
farm where 50% or more of the
entire production’s income
comes from a single
activity/enterprise.

Answer 33

SPECIALIZED FARMING SYSTEM

Question 34

The integrated farming system is also a

Answer 34

SUSTAINABLEAGRICULTURE SYSTEM

Question 35

is a
method where the crops
and livestock are raised
to sell products in order
to make money.

Answer 35

COMMERCIAL FARMING

Question 36

Mushroom cultivation requires high degree of humidity
and therefore its cultivation along with aquaculture
tremendous scope.

Answer 36

MUSHROOM-RICE SYSTEM

Question 37

An integrated rice field or
rice field/pond complex where
fish are cultivated either
simultaneously or alternately
with rice is known as a

Answer 37

RICE-FISH SYSTEM

Question 38

the
system follows an
alternate succession of
the strips or hedgerow
croppings of perennial
crops established along
the contour of the slope

Answer 38

ALLEY CROPPING

Question 39

is a variation on natural farming
developed in, and primarily practiced in
Southern India. It is also called spiritual
farming.

Answer 39

ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING

Question 40

Stocking levels for fish are

Answer 40

0.25–1 fish/m2

Question 41

Rice-fish
farming systems have tremendous
potential for increasing food security and
alleviating poverty in rural areas; they also
use the same land resource efficiently to
produce both carbohydrates and animal
protein. I

Answer 41

RICE-FISH CO-CULTURE SYSTEM

Question 42

a method of crop production in which only one crop is
grown annually in the same parcel of land

Answer 42

MONOCROPPING

Question 43

system
of crop cultivation in
parallel beds and sinks
wherein lowland crops are
planted in the sinks and
upland crops are grown in
beds.

Answer 43

SORJAN CULTIVATION

Question 44

This type of farming is realized
when man becomes one with
nature

Answer 44

MAHAYANA NATURAL FARMING

Question 45

involves the mixture of annuals crops with
other annuals, annuals with perennials, or perennials with
perennials, or perennials with perennials planted in spatial pattern

Answer 45

POLYCULTURE FARMING SYSTEM