Everything you need to know about plant breeding ! Q. 1. What is plant breeding? Ans. Plant breeding is defined as the art, science and technology of improving genetic make-up of crop plants in relation to their economic use for mankind. Q. 2. Who defined plant breeding as current phase of crop evolution? Ans. N.W. Simmonds (1979) defined plant breeding [...]
Everything you need to know about multiple cropping systems ! Q. 1. What do you mean by multiple cropping? Ans. Multiple cropping refers to growing two or more crops on the same field in a year. It is of two types, viz.: i. Sequential cropping and ii. Intercropping. Q. 2. What is sequential cropping? Ans. Cultivation of two or more [...]
Everything you need to know about crop biodiversity and Indian legislation ! Q.1. What is Biodiversity? Ans. The biodiversity refers to the variety of life in ail forms, levels and combinations. The term biodiversity includes genetic diversity; species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. In other words, the variety of life forms -the different plants, animals and microorganisms, the genes they contain [...]