ibps-so 2016 · Question 379 of 394

A rainfed farming demonstration nanced by the branch is being laid out on a light soil where the monsoon frequently fails at the end of the season. Two crops of di erent duration and di erent rooting habit are to be sown in the same eld in the same season in a de nite row arrangement, two rows of the short-duration legume alternating with one row of the long-duration pigeonpea, so that the legume is harvested and the eld is left to the pigeonpea for the rest of the season. The eld o cer records in his appraisal that the object of the arrangement is insurance against the failure of either crop and a fuller use of the light and the moisture of the season, and that the de ning feature is the de nite row proportion, which distinguishes the system from a mere mixture of two seeds sown together without any arrangement. The growing of two or more crops simultaneously in the same eld in such a row arrangement is called

1. AMixed cropping
2. BIntercroppingCorrect
3. CRelay cropping
4. DSequential cropping
5. EMonocropping