ibps-so 2016 · Question 268 of 394

A direct-seeded rice demonstration is being laid out on the farm of a borrower who has taken a crop loan from the branch, and the seed component of the loan has to be worked out before the kharif season opens. The borrower will not transplant and will not broadcast either; he will sow the sprouted seed in lines with a drum seeder at the recommended row spacing, so that the crop can be weeded mechanically between the rows and the stand can be counted. The eld o cer knows that line sowing needs appreciably less seed than broadcast direct seeding, because none of the seed is wasted outside the row and the plant to plant spacing within the row is under control, and he has to enter the correct rate against the four hectares the borrower proposes to sow. The seed rate of rice under line sowing is

1. A20 kg per hectare
2. B40 kg per hectareCorrect
3. C60 kg per hectare
4. D80 kg per hectare
5. E100 kg per hectare