NABARD ( Agriculture & Rural Development) – Fertilisers
A fertilizer or fertiliser is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.
Fertilizers enhance...
NABARD Grade A Agriculture & Rural Development (ARD) Daily Quiz
Question 1: What is the objective of ‘Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana’?
a) Provide security of income to farmers despite natural vagaries at a very nominal premium.
b) Provide a common market platform...
NABARD ( Agriculture & Rural Development) – watershed management
The word “watershed” introduced in 1920 was used for the “water parting boundaries”. Watershed is that land area which drains or contributes runoff to a common outlet. Watershed is defined as...
NABARD ( Agriculture & Rural Development) – Irrigation, types of irrigation, sources of irrigation
Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the soil to supplement the rainfall and groundwater contribution to assist the crop production.
Sustainable development and efficient management of water is an increasingly...
NABARD ( Agriculture & Rural Development) – command area development
Command Area Development (CAD) Programme was launched in 1974-75 The primary objective of the CAD Programme has been to bridge the gap between the irrigation potential created and that utilized through...
NABARD ( Agriculture & Rural Development) – Soil & Major soil types
Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life. The Earth's body of soil is the pedosphere, which has four important functions:
it is a medium for plant...
NABARD ( Agriculture & Rural Development) – organic farming
Organic farming is a method of crop and livestock production that involves much more than choosing not to use pesticides, fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, antibiotics and growth hormones.
Organic production is a...
NABARD ( Agriculture & Rural Development) – Precision Farming
Precision farming is a farming management concept based on observing, measuring and responding to inter and intra-field variability in crops. Crop variability typically has both a spatial and temporal component which...
NABARD ( Agriculture & Rural Development) – Meteorology: weather parameters
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences which includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics, with a major focus on weather forecasting.
Importance and Scope of Meteorology in Agriculture
Weather and climate is a resource and considered as basic input...
NABARD ( Agriculture & Rural Development) – Problems of dry land agriculture
Dryland Agriculture refers to cultivation of crops entirely under natural rainfall without irrigation. It is a form of subsistence farming in the regions where deficit of the soil moisture retards the growth...
