Food Production and Management Test - 2

Dairy farms typically consist of high producing dairy cows.

Other species used in commercial dairy farming include goats, sheep, and camels.

In developed countries, dairy farms typically consist of high producing dairy cows.

Other species used in commercial dairy farming include goats, sheep, and camels.

Parasites that live in the body are called endo-parasites.

Tapeworms are flat, segmented worms that live in the intestines of some animals.

So, option 4 i.e. "Tapeworm" is an endo parasite.

"Poultry" can be defined as domestic fowls, including chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks, raised for the production of meat or eggs and the word is also used for the flesh of these birds used as food.

Cod liver oil is one of the best sources of omega 3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA), and it contains relatively high amounts of vitamin A and vitamin D.

Cod liver oil comes only from the livers of cod. It contains less omega-3 fatty acids than regular fish oils, but more vitamins A and D.

Apis is the genus of the honey bee and hence the name Apiculture.

The place where the honey bees are reared is called a bee yard or an Apiary.

The person who takes care of the Apiary is known as 'Apiarist'.

Wheat is the first cereal to be cultivated by man. In several places in the Middle East it is being sowed, tended and reaped soon after 8000 BC.

The people of Jericho are the first known to have lived mainly from the cultivation of crops. Barley is grown within the following millennium.

A threshing machine or thresher is a piece of farm equipment that threshes grain, that is, it removes the seeds from the stalks and husks.

It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out.

Biological control is an environmentally sound and effective means of reducing or mitigating pests and pest effects through the use of natural enemies.

An example of biological control is the release of parasitic wasps to control aphids. Aphids are a pest of plants and cause huge damage to plants as they remove nutrients from the plant.

Green revolution is a large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties.

The success of the Green Revolution is dramatically increasing food production, mainly in Asian countries, through high yielding varieties fertilizers and increased irrigation.

Black soil is mostly clay soils and form deep cracks during dry season.

An accumulation of lime is generally noticed of varying depths.

They are popularly known as Black cotton soils because of their dark brown colour and suitability for growing cotton.