BAF Shaheen Collage Dhaka Practice Half yearly Examination-2020
Class: VI (English Version)
Subject: Agriculture Studies (Creative Question) Full Marks: 70 Time: 2.30 Hours Answer any seven questions: 7X10= 70
1. Population of Bangladesh is increasing, on the other hand land area is decreasing. More crop production from minimum land is a big challenge. Proper use of right machinery is necessary to overcome this challenge. For crop production using only good seeds, fertilizers, irrigation or using pesticides are not sufficient. Side by side agricultural equipment are also necessary. The right use of agricultural equipment ensures more crop production.
a. How many types of agricultural equipment use in Bangladesh? 01
b. What do you mean by Agricultural Equipment? 02
c. Write three advantages of BARI seed sowing machine? 03
d. “Proper use of right machinery is necessary to overcome the food challenge”- Explain. 04
2. Green grass has great importance. Deficit of grass occurs in different places during the winter. Then it becomes difficult to give a standard food to cattle or animals. So the shortage of cattle fodder can be met up by green grass preservation in the rainy season. a) What is silage? 01
b) Which varieties of grasses are used for silage preparation? 02
c) Describe silage preparation method in a raw pit. 03
d) Why Silage is important in our agriculture? Explain. 04
3. a) What is called a field crop? 01
b) Agriculture fulfils man’s basic needs. Explain. 02
c) What type of crop is figure ‘A’ crop? Give reason . 03
d) Which crop in the figures is more important in consideration to economy? Give your opinion about this? 04
4. Bangladesh is an agricultural country and agricultural is very important in our life. Our basic needs are fulfilled through different types of crop production, animal and bird rearing, fish culture and afforestation. a) What is agriculture? 01
b) Why agriculture is important in our life? 02
c) How farmers help in meeting the basic demands of people’s lives? ---Explain. 03
d) “Agriculture is old, yet modern and very much honorable profession”--- Explain and give your opinion. 04
5. Moin is a young farmer. He has suffered from many problems regarding crops eg. crop diseases, pest attack, flood, drought etc. In facing an unfavorable situation, he primarily seeks the advice of an experienced farmer and he also sincerely gives advice to Moin as far as he knows. a) How many public agricultural training institutes are there in Bangladesh? 01
b) Who is experienced farmers? 02
c) How Moin gets benefit after visiting an agricultural fair?---Explain. 03
d) Discuss the opportunities of Agricultural Education and Research Institution in Bangladesh for the farmer like Moin. 04
6) Mr.Rafiq a conscious farmer. Always he uses good quality seed for crop production. This year he has purchased some seeds for wheat cultivation. From the purchased seeds, he takes 100gm seeds by selection and has got the following materials. * Other variety seeds – 5gm *Broken and insect eaten seeds – 6gm *Immature seeds – 3gm *Weed seeds – 1gm *Inert materials – 1gm a) What colour will good seeds be? 01
b) Mixing of different materials deteriorate the seed quality of improved breed seeds. --- Explain. 02
c) Find out the good seed rate in percentage which is selected by Mr.Rafiq. 03
d) Evaluate the work of Mr.Rafiq to produce more crops. 04
7. Fazlu Miah got worried when the paddy saplings in his field stopped growing. Besides, there were too many weed in the field. An Experienced farmer of his village advised him to clear the weed quickly using the latest agricultural equipment to solve his problem. a) Which equipment Fazlu Miah uses to clear the weed? 01
b) Give description of that equipment. 02
c) Write down the uses of ladder in Fazlu Miah’s field. 03
d) Analyze the advantage of local agricultural equipment in this modern world. 04
8. The yard of Majid , a farmer, gets filled with straw, empty grains and leaves in every threshing season of crops. As a result, the environment surrounding the house becomes dirty and unhygienic. With the advice of the sub-assistant agriculture officers, Majid adopted the method of utilizing the Wastage and applied these to his agricultural fields. a) What is called Organic matter? 01
b) The crop production of a field depends on soil texture.—Explain. 02
c) How will Majid utilize the Wastage of his house? Explain the method. 03
d) Analyze how Majid’s decision will influence his agricultural activity. 04
9.
Figure
a) What is technology? 01 b) What do you mean by Zero tillage? 02 c) Explain the procedure mention in the figure. 03 d) Analyze the usefulness of the procedure in behalf of Bangladesh. 04 10.
Group Nature of soil particle
Classification of soil Crop/Characteristic
A 70% ? a kind of melon, a kind of melon, water
melon
B 40% loamy soil ?
C 60% ? make the land suitable for rice cultivation
a) What is called soil? 01 b) Why organic matters are called the life of soil? Explain. 02
c) Explain why the soil in group ‘C’ can be made suitable for rice cultivation. 03 d) Which soil in the chart is the best one for crop cultivation? Give your opinion. 04
e) 11)
Figure: A Figure: B Figure: C
a) What is Irrigation? 01
b) Which type of sources of irrigation water in the above figures? 02
c. Describe the physical properties of water and their influence on fish culture in 1st figure? 03 d) Analyze the impact of water quality on fish culture.
