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GENERAL AGRICULTURE GENERAL AGRICULTURE – 8 TERM RELATED TO CROPS Part-2 AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE TOPPING ✓ Crop: Cotton ✓ Removal of upper buds...

GENERAL AGRICULTURE GENERAL AGRICULTURE – 8 TERM RELATED TO CROPS Part-2 AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE TOPPING ✓ Crop: Cotton ✓ Removal of upper buds AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE NIPPING OR TOPPING ✓ Crop: Gram, Castor ✓ Nipping is a special cultivation practice of plucking the apical buds of crops. ✓ It is done at about 30-40 DAS in gram and 40-45 DAS in Castor ✓ It stops the apical growth and promotes lateral branching, hence the plant produces more pods and flowers, and yield is increased. AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE PINCHING/ NIPPING ✓Crop: Sunflower ✓to the practice of cutting off the top of a flower stem ✓To promote more and longer branches AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE CURING ✓Crop: Tobacco, Tea ✓Drying of leaves AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE TIPPING ✓Crop: Tea ✓Plucking of leaves from tea (A normal process) AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE HEIGHT OF TIPPING Type of Prune/Skiff Tipping Height over the Number of Leaves last Pruning/Skiffing Mark Retained in new lateral/Primaries Light prune (LP) 20-25 cm 5 Medium prune (MP) 30 cm 5-6 Deep skiff(DS) 7-10 2-3 Medium skiff (MS) 4-5 cm 1 Light skiff (LS)/Level- Same level Nil (pluck to janam) off- skiff (LOS)/ Unprune AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE RETTING ✓ Crop: Jute ✓ Tied bundles of jute stalks are taken to the tank by which fibres get loosened and separated from the woody stalk ✓ Temp.: 34° C AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE STRIPPING ✓ Crop: Jute ✓ Process of removing the fibers from the stalk after the completion of retting AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE RIBBONING/ RIBBON RETTING ✓ Crop: Jute ✓ In ribbon retting, ribbons are stripped out echanically from the stem of mature jute plants, coiled and allowed to ret under water AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE STALKING ✓ Crop: Cotton ✓ Tie the stems of tomato plants to the support structure every 6 or 8 inches as they grow. AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE PARBOILING ✓ Crop: Rice ✓ Process of partially boiling of rice in the husk AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE BEUSHENING ✓ Crop: Rice ✓ Beushening in paddy is a traditional system of rice cultivation common in rainfed regions. ✓ It involves cross ploughing the young crop, 4-6 weeks after sowing with a light country plough in 5-10 cm standing water, ones or twice. AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE HELIOTROPISM ✓ Crop: Sunflower ✓ The fascinating phenomenon of flowers following the sun across the sky AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE DEHAULMING ✓ Crop: Potato ✓ Dehaulming is one of the pre- harvest practices which are aimed at hardening the skin of the tubers and therefore reduce injuries during post-harvest handling. ✓ Cutting of plant before the harvesting of potato AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE DENAVELLING ✓ Crop: Banana ✓ Removal of male bud in banana AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE CHOKE/CHOKING ✓ Crop: Banana ✓ “Choke" is the name given to a condition in banana plants in which the fruit bunch fails to emerge, or emerges abnormally twisted. AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE NICKING ✓ Crop: Sorghum ✓ Serious problem encountered in hybrid seed production in sorghum is proper nicking or synchronisation of flowering in the two parents. AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE JERKING ✓ Crop: Bajra ✓ First tillers are pulled out or removed which will result in uniform flowering of all the tillers ✓ It is done 20 – 25 days after transplanting or 30- 40 days before direct sowing. AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE FLOOPING ✓ Crop: Tobacco ✓ Refers to wilting of tobacco due to waterlogging. AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES GENERAL AGRICULTURE Thank you………….. AGRICULTURE PADHAI ONLINE CLASSES