ibps-so 2016 · Question 368 of 394

A cotton grower who has taken a crop loan from the branch has asked the custom hiring centre for labour rather than for a machine, because he proposes to sow his delinted hybrid seed by hand. Two or three seeds are to be placed by hand in each hole opened with a marker at a xed spacing along the row, each hole being made to the required depth and closed after the seed is placed in it, and the extra seedlings are to be thinned out later. The eld o cer entering the operation in the register notes that this method is used only where the seed is large or very costly, that it gives the most exact control of both the depth and the plant to plant distance of any method, and that it needs far more labour to the hectare than any of the mechanical methods. The method of sowing in which the seed is placed in holes made to the required depth is

1. ABroadcasting
2. BDrilling
3. CDibblingCorrect
4. DTransplanting
5. ESowing behind the plough