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ICSE Class 10 Geography Question 34 of 36

Agriculture in India — III : Cash Crops — Question 34

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Question 34

Explain the following terms. With which crop do you associate them?

  1. Ginning
  2. Retting
  3. Clonal planting
  4. Ratooning
  5. Fine plucking
  6. Bud grafting
Answer
  1. Ginning — It is the process in which fibre is separated from the seed/raw material. It is done by roller gins. Ginning is associated with cotton.
  2. Retting — It is a microbiological process in which the jute bundles are submerged in soft clean water for 2-3 weeks. This helps to loosen the outer bark and helps in removal of the fibre from the stalk. This process is associated with Jute.
  3. Clonal planting — It is the method where cutting are taken from good high yielding mpther plant rather than seeds. It is associated with Tea.
  4. Ratooning — It is a method of Sugarcane cultivation in which the sugarcane is cut leaving the root intact in soil. It is associated with Sugarcane.
  5. Fine plucking — Plucking of two youngest leaves with a bud is called fine plucking. It is done in Tea.
  6. Bud grafting — In Bud grafting, a strip of bark of a good yielding plant containing a bud is inserted under the bark of a young seedling. It is done in rubber plant.