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• When demand for agricultural products decreases, farmers generally have less incentive to produce the same quantity.
• Lower demand can reduce market prices and farmers’ expected income, leading them to reduce production over time.
• The response is not always immediate because agricultural production also depends on weather, input costs, government policies, and existing stocks.

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• A chisel plough is a tillage implement with strong.
• It is widely spaced tines used to loosen hard soil and break compacted layers while leaving much of the soil surface relatively undisturbed.
• Its large, rigid shanks can penetrate firm soil and improve water infiltration and root growth.

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• Surface tension decreases as temperature increases.
• Higher temperature increases the kinetic energy of liquid molecules, weakening the effect of intermolecular cohesive forces at the surface.
• Surface tension becomes nearly zero at the critical temperature, where the distinction between liquid and gas disappears.
• Water has a surface tension of approximately 72.8 mN/m at 20°C.

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• Loose smut of wheat is a seed-borne fungal disease caused by Ustilago tritici.
• The fungus infects the developing wheat embryo, and the infected seed may appear healthy externally.
• When infected seeds germinate, the fungus grows with the plant and eventually replaces the grain in the ear with black, powdery spores.

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• Agroforestry is a land-use system that combines trees or shrubs with agricultural crops and/or livestock.
• The furniture industry uses wood obtained from trees grown in forests and agroforestry systems.
• Trees grown on farms can provide timber, reduce pressure on natural forests, and generate additional income for farmers.

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• Denitrification is a biological reduction process in which microorganisms convert nitrate into gaseous nitrogen compounds, mainly nitrogen gas.
• It usually occurs under anaerobic conditions, when oxygen is limited in the soil.
• This process returns nitrogen to the atmosphere and reduces the amount of nitrogen available to plants.

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• Sodicity occurs when excessive exchangeable sodium accumulates in the soil.
• It damaging soil structure and reducing water infiltration.
• Gypsum supplies calcium, which replaces sodium on soil exchange sites.
• Leaching then uses suitable-quality water to wash the displaced sodium salts down through the soil profile.
• Adequate drainage is essential.

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• Blind hoeing is the shallow cultivation of soil before the crop seedlings emerge, mainly to destroy young weeds.
• In cotton, it is performed after sowing but before the cotton seedlings emerge, helping control weeds without damaging the crop.
• It requires careful timing and shallow operation to avoid disturbing germinating seeds.

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• Prunus armeniaca is the scientific name of apricot.
• Apricot is a stone fruit belonging to the family Rosaceae.
• It is a deciduous fruit tree.
• It is commonly cultivated in temperate and cool regions.

Additional information:

• Pear: Pyrus communis
• Plum: Prunus domestica
• Peach: Prunus persica

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