FINAL EXAM Flashcards
(45 cards)
Is a type of chemical-free farming where the total cost of growing
and harvesting plants comes out to be zero. This type of farming
involves agroecology; using natural fertilizers, biological
pesticides and local seeds.
ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING
only one crop is grown in a given area throughout the
year
MONOCULTURE
In this system, an inter-related set
of enterprises is used so that the
“waste” from one component
becomes an input for another part
of the system.
INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM
cultivation of two or more
than two crops of different heights simultaneously on a certain piece
of land in any certain period
MULTI-STOREY
Anything carried out
within the farm boundary. large-scale production of
crops and farm animals
for sale using modern
technology.
COMMERCIAL FARMING
The yearly sequence and spatial
arrangement of crops or of crops and fallows on a
given area
CROPPING PATTERN
Form of farming in which nearly all of
the crops or livestock raised are used to
maintain the farmer and the farmer’s
family, leaving little, if any, surplus for
sale or trade.
SUBSISTENCE FARMING
In this integration, mulberry is the
producer; silkworm is the first consumer
while fish is the secondary consumer,
ingesting silkworm feces are utilized by
phytoplankton, and filter-feeding fish in
turn consumes heterotrophic bacteria.
SERICULTURE-FISH SYSTEM
Natural farming termed _____it’s
because the farmer is
considered only to be a
facilitator - the real work
is done by Nature herself.
DO NOTHING FARMING
Horticulture crops can be grown
best on ponds’ top, inner, and outer
dykes as well as adjacent lands. Pond
water is used for irrigation, and
crops, vegetables, and fruit-bearing
plants are fertilized with silt, a highquality manure.
HORTICULTURE-FISH SYSTEM
Ophicephalus striatus
Channa striata
this involves the planting of
trees especially on steep slopes and heavy clay soils.
Rubber, Ipil-ipil, and Coconut are suitable trees under
this system
PERENNIAL MONOCULTURE
cultivation of such crops
which have different natural
habitat and zero competition
PARALLEL CROPPING
is a
combination of many systems, it
attempts to increase farmers income
using natural resources on
sustainability basis which can be
obtained by integrating crop
husbandary with allied enterprises is
called as
INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM
growing of more than one
crop on the same land in one year.
MULTIPLE CROPPING
Natural farming is an ecological
farming approach established by a
Japanese farmer and a philosopher.
MASANOBU FUKOUKA (1913-2008)
Man exists in a state of
contradiction in which he is
basically estranged from nature,
living in a totally artificial world,
yet longs for a return to nature.
SCIENTIFIC FARMING
growing of two or more
crops together, but seeding or transplanting the succeeding
one after flowering and before the harvest of the former
crop.
RELAY CROPPING
growing of two or more crops in
sequence on the same field within a 12 month period,
SEQUENTIAL CROPPING
the people who developed
“Natural Farming,” which is “a farming approach that
imitates the way of nature.
MASANOBU FUKUOKA MOKICHI OKADA
this system utilizes both
upland and lowland annual crops like rice, corn, and
vegetables
ANNUAL CROP MONOCULTURE
refers to the pattern or
arrangement of crops in time and space, as well as
the process of growing them.
CROPPPING SYSTEM
who is known to be the father
of ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING
SUBHASH PALEKER
is the growing of two or more crops
simultaneously on the same field such that the period of
overlap is long enough to include vegetative stage.
INTERCROPPING
