- Father of Organic Farming movement – Sir Albert Howard
- The loss of fertile top soil is called Soil Erosion
- Development of Agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self sufficient – Permaculture
- Agricultural System of terminating cultivation in a particular land when the soil shows signs of exhaustion and allowing the land to revert to its natural vegetation by changing cultivation to another plot is known as – Shifting Cultivation
- Farming along with some other agricultural based practice like poultry, diary farming or bee keeping is known as Mixed Farming
- Agriculture production system which uses small input of capital and labour in a large area is called – Extensive Farming
- The science of improving crop varieties is called – Plant Breeding
- Transportation of food in plants takes place through? – Phloem
- With which crop is the name “Jaya” associated? – Rice
- Who was the Agricultural Scientist , who gave leadership to the “Green Revolution”? – Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
- The “Operation flood” associated? – Effort for increasing production of milk.
- A seed dispersed with the help of hairs on it is – Cotton
- There are mainly two types of Crops – Food Crops and Cash Crops
- The food crops such as Cereals and Pulses are grown to meet the food demand of the people
- Cash crops are two types – Plantation crops and field crops
- Tea, Coffee, rubber etc are plantation crops
- Cotton, Jute, Sugarcane, oilseeds, tobacco etc. are field crops.
Agricultural revolutions
- Green Revolution : Agricultural Production
- White Revolution : Milk and Diary Products
- Silver Revolution : Egg Production
- Blue Revolution : Fisheries development
- Yellow Revolution : Oilseed Production
- Golden Revolution : Honey, Horticulture
- Pink Revolution : Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
- Golden fibre revolution – Jute production
- Gray revolution : Housing development
- Silver Fibre Revolution : Cotton Production
- Brown Revolution : Leather, Cocoa
- Rainbow revolution : All round revolution in agriculture
- Red revolution : Meat and Tomato
Branches of Agriculture
- Sericulture : rearing of silk worms
- Olericulture : study of cultivation of vegetables
- Horticulture : Cultivation of flowers, fruits and ornamental plants
- Pisciculture : art of rearing fishes
- Apiculture : bee keeping
- Vermiculture : breeding of worms useful to farmers
- Silviculture : forest planting
- Viticulture : grape cultivation
- Floriculture : cultivation of flowering plants
- Arboriculture : cultivation of trees and vegetables
- Cuniculture : is related to Rabbit
- Mariculture : Marine Fish Cultivation
