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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
