Strategies for Agricultural Expansion and Challenges
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How is horizontal expansion in agriculture achieved?

  • By reclamation of new land areas and development of new suitable varieties for marginal lands (correct)
  • By increasing crop yield of land unit area
  • By enhancing the availability of crop production inputs
  • By improving crop cultivars and using advanced technology
  • What is one of the limitations for increasing cultivated land?

  • Application of advanced technology
  • Availability of high-yielding varieties
  • Infrastructure problems (correct)
  • High capital requirements
  • How can vertical expansion be achieved in agriculture?

  • By focusing on improving infrastructure
  • By growing more than one cultivated species in the same land in one year (correct)
  • By enhancing the availability of crop production inputs
  • By cultivating only perennial species
  • What contributes to increasing crop yield from a unit area of cultivated land?

    <p>Using high-yielding and pest-resistant varieties</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is it possible to increase crop area by growing more than one species in the same land in one year?

    <p>To increase the variety of cultivated crops produced</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is horizontal expansion in agriculture?

    <p>Horizontal expansion refers to increasing the cultivated area by reclaiming new land areas and developing new suitable varieties for marginal lands.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How can horizontal expansion be achieved in agriculture?

    <p>Horizontal expansion can be achieved by reclaiming new land areas and developing new varieties suitable for marginal lands.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is vertical expansion in agriculture?

    <p>Vertical expansion involves increasing crop yield per unit area by improving cultivars, using high-yielding varieties, enhancing crop production inputs, and applying advanced agricultural technology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What contributes to increasing crop yield from a unit area of cultivated land?

    <p>Improving cultivars, using high-yielding and pest-resistant varieties, enhancing crop production inputs, and applying advanced technology contribute to increasing crop yield per unit area.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is it possible to increase crop area by growing more than one species in the same land in one year?

    <p>Increasing crop area by growing multiple species in the same land in one year is possible due to the different growing seasons of perennial and annual species.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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