1. Consider the following statements : The nation-wide 'Soil Health Card Scheme' aims at

1. expanding the cultivable area under irrigation

2. enabling the banks to assess the quantum of loans to be granted to farmers on the basis of soil quality

3. checking the overuse of fertilizers in farmlands.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

2. What is/are the advantage/advantages of implementing the 'National Agriculture Market' (NAM) scheme?

1. It is a pan-India electronic trading portal for agricultural commodities.

2. It provides the farmers access to nationwide market, with prices commensurate with the quality of their produce.

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3. Which of the following practices can help in water conservation in agriculture? 

1. Reduced or zero tillage of the land

2. Applying gypsum before irrigating the field

3. Allowing crop residue to remain in the field

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4. With reference to agriculture in India, how can the technique of 'genome sequencing', often seen in the news, be used in the immediate future? 

1. Genome sequencing can be used to identify genetic markers for disease resistance and drought tolerance in various crop plants.

2. This technique helps in reducing the time required to develop new varieties of crop plants.

3. It can be used to decipher the host-pathogen relationships in crops.

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5. At one of the places in India, if you stand on the seashore and watch the sea, you will find that the sea water recedes from the shore line a few kilometres and comes back to the shore, twice a day, and you can actually walk on the sea floor when the water recedes. This unique phenomenon is seen at