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  2. Agriculture classification of crops - Wikipedia

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    The term pulse is used for the seeds of plants from the Fabaceae family (legumes), such as beans, pea, lentil and chickpea. Pulses supply proteins and form chief source in vegetarian food. Leguminous plants fix nitrogen in root nodules - produced with the help of nitrogen fixing bacteria.

  3. Farming systems in India - Wikipedia

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    Shifting cultivation is a type of subsistence farming where a plot of land is cultivated for a few years until the crop yield declines due to soil exhaustion and the effects of pests and weeds. Once crop yield has stagnated, the plot of land is deserted and the ground is cleared by slash and burn methods, allowing the land to replenish. Crops ...

  4. Monoculture - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural monocultures refer to the practice of planting one crop species in a field. [15] Monoculture is widely used in intensive farming and in organic farming.In crop monocultures, each plant in a field has the same standardized planting, maintenance, and harvesting requirements resulting in greater yields and lower costs.

  5. High-yielding variety - Wikipedia

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    Corn, one crop for which HYV seeds have been created. High-yielding varieties (abbreviated as HYVs) of agricultural crops are varieties of crops that are usually characterized by a combination of the following traits in contrast to the conventional ones: Higher crop yield per unit area; Higher quality of crops; Improved response to fertilizers

  6. History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Plants and animals—considered essential to their survival by the Indians—came to be worshiped and venerated. [7] The Middle Ages saw irrigation channels reach a new level of sophistication in India and Indian crops affecting the economies of other regions of the world. Land and water management systems were developed with an aim of ...

  7. Red soil - Wikipedia

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    Red soils are typically difficult for crop cultivation because high leaching leads to low water holding capacity, low nutrients, low organic matter , and acidification. [1] Fluctuations in the concentration of iron within red soil are found to have significant implications on its fertility and growth properties. The fertility of red soils can ...

  8. DMH-11 Mustard - Wikipedia

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    Mustard plant. Dhara Mustard Hybrid-11, otherwise known as DMH - 11, is a genetically modified hybrid variety of the mustard species Brassica juncea.It was developed by Professor Deepak Pental from the University of Delhi, with the aim of reducing India's demand for edible oil imports.

  9. Agrostology - Wikipedia

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    Agrostology has importance in the maintenance of wild and grazed grasslands, agriculture (crop plants such as rice, maize, sugarcane, and wheat are grasses, and many types of animal fodder are grasses), urban and environmental horticulture, turfgrass management and sod production, ecology, and conservation.