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...
NABARD Grade A Agriculture & Rural Development (ARD) Daily Quiz Questions Set- 14
1. A new Scheme "Operation Greens" has been announced in the Union Budget 2018-19 for which of following commodities?
a. Rice, Wheat and Sugarcane
b. Tomato, Onion and Potato
c. Arhar, Moong and Masoor
d....
NABARD Grade A Agriculture & Rural Development (ARD) Daily Quiz Questions Set- 13
1. Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana launched in which year?
1. 2011
2. 2015
3. 2010
4. 2012
5. 2009
2. AMRUT Scheme was launched in June 2015 with the focus of the urban renewal projects is...
NABARD ( Agriculture & Rural Development) – Factors affecting crop production
There are many internal and external factors which directly or indirectly affects the crop production.
I. Internal factors
Genetic factors :-
The increase in crop yields and other desirable characters are related...
NABARD Grade A Agriculture & Rural Development (ARD) Daily Quiz Questions Set- 11
1. Consider the following statements and identify the right ones.
i. National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture has been conceptualized to recognize the challenge of climate change to Indian agriculture.
ii. It is one...
