ibps-so 2016 · Question 370 of 394

A cotton development programme nanced by the branch will plant a medium-duration variety at a spacing of sixty centimetres between the rows and thirty centimetres between the plants within a row, and the eld o cer has to record in his appraisal the number of plants to the hectare that this spacing gives, since the seed component of the crop loan and the target yield of the programme are both worked out from it. He notes that a long-duration variety of the same crop is planted much wider and carries a far smaller population, and that a short-duration variety on a light soil is planted closer still, so that the gure must be entered against the duration of the variety actually planted and not taken from a general table. The plant population per hectare for a medium-duration cotton crop at this spacing is about

1. A33,300
2. B55,000Correct
3. C18,500
4. D74,000
5. E1,11,000