ibps-so 2016 · Question 371 of 394

A conservation agriculture project in the rice-wheat belt has applied for nance for a machine which the project report calls a no-till planter, and the eld o cer must record in his appraisal the operation the machine actually performs, since the hire charge, the annual use and the income of the machine all follow from it. The machine is drawn by a tractor, carries a seed box and a fertiliser box, and is tted ahead of each tube with a narrow inverted-T type furrow opener that cuts through the loose residue of the previous crop. The report claims that the machine allows the wheat crop to be established immediately after the rice harvest without any preparatory tillage at all, saving the cost of four or ve passes of a cultivator and advancing the date of establishment by a fortnight. The no-till planter is used for

1. APuddling
2. BSowingCorrect
3. CThreshing
4. DInter-culture and weeding
5. ELand levelling