Home
Class 12
BIOLOGY
A system of rotating crops with legume o...

A system of rotating crops with legume or grass pasture to improve soil structure and fertility is called

A

contour farming

B

strip farming

C

shifting agriculture

D

ley farming

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

The correct Answer is:
D
Ley farming is a system of rotating crops with legumes or grass pasture in order to improve soil structure and fertility and also to disrupt pea=st and disease life cycles
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN FLOWERING PLANTS

    NEET PREVIOUS YEAR (YEARWISE + CHAPTERWISE)|Exercise MCQ|80 Videos

  • STRUCTURAL ORGANISATION IN ANIMALS

    NEET PREVIOUS YEAR (YEARWISE + CHAPTERWISE)|Exercise All Questions|43 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

Loss of fertility of soil is called:

What does legume crop provide to the soil?

The science of improving crop viarieties is called

Crop rotation enriches soil fertility.

Explain how the use of fertilizers has improved crop production.

Which of the following statement/s is/are and example of genetic engineering? I. Inserting a gene for human insulin production into bacteria. II. Selective breeding to produce cattle with high milk yields. III. Using methods like crop rotation with leguminous plants to increase the fertility of the soil. IV. Vegetative propagation and grafting are practised to ensure higher yield.

The material of biological origin, which is used to maintain and improve soil fertility is

A few fowering plants such as some species of Asteraceae and grasses have evolved a special mechanism to produce seeds without fertilization is called:

Explain why a legume crop does not require nitrogenous fertilizers ?

NEET PREVIOUS YEAR (YEARWISE + CHAPTERWISE)-STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCEMENT IN FOOD PRODUCTION-EXERCISE
  1. Homozygous purelines in cattle can be obtained by

    Text Solution

    |

  2. Artificial selection to obtain cows yielding higher milk output repres...

    Text Solution

    |

  3. A system of rotating crops with legume or grass pasture to improve soi...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. Interspecific hybridisation is the mating of

    Text Solution

    |

  5. Among the following edible fishes which one is marine fish having rich...

    Text Solution

    |

  6. Outbreeding is an important strategy of animla husbandry because it

    Text Solution

    |

  7. To obtain virus-free healthy plants from a diseased one by tissue cul...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. In plant breeding programme, the entire collection (of plants/seed) ha...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. which one of the following isa case of wrong matching?

    Text Solution

    |

  10. Consider the collowing four statements (I-II) and select the option wh...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. Java and Ratna developed for green revolution in India are the varieti...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. Himgiri developed by hybridization and selection for disease resistanc...

    Text Solution

    |

  13. consider the following statements (I-II) about organic farming.

    Text Solution

    |

  14. When two unrelated individuals or lines are crossed, the perfomance of...

    Text Solution

    |

  15. Mutations can be induced with

    Text Solution

    |

  16. Breeding of crops with high levels of minerals vitamins and proteins c...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. Somaclones are obtained by

    Text Solution

    |

  18. Which is linked to discovery of Bordeaux mixture as fungicide ?

    Text Solution

    |

  19. Chick pea is being grown in area where bacterial blight is common. Wha...

    Text Solution

    |

  20. In cloning of cattle a fertilised egg is taken out of the mother's wom...

    Text Solution

    |