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• Olericulture is a branch of horticulture.
  • It focuses on the cultivation, growth, and harvesting of vegetables.
  • Helps improve yield, quality, and pest management in vegetables.
  • Important for food supply and nutrition.
  • Examples include tomatoes, carrots, and cabbage.

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• Pomology is the branch of horticulture that deals with the study, cultivation, and production of fruits.
• Includes fruit breeding, harvesting, storage, and marketing.
• Examples of fruits studied: apple, mango, citrus, banana, grapes.

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• A subsoiler is a deep-tillage implement used to break compacted soil layers beneath the normal ploughing depth.
• It improves soil aeration, water infiltration, and root penetration without necessarily turning over the soil.

Additional information:

• Primary tillage: The initial major operation to loosen soil.
• Secondary tillage: Breaks clods and prepares a fine seedbed.
• Zero tillage: Seeds are planted with minimal soil disturbance.

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• Alluvial deposits: Soil, sand, silt, and gravel transported and deposited by flowing water, especially rivers and streams.

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• Alluvial soils are often fertile because rivers deposit nutrient-rich sediments on floodplains.
• The Indus River and its tributaries have formed extensive alluvial plains in Pakistan.

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• Consumptive water use refers to water used by plants for growth and metabolic activities.
• It is mainly lost through transpiration, along with evaporation from the soil and plant surfaces.

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• Evaporation: Water changes from liquid to vapour from soil or other wet surfaces.
• Transpiration: Water vapour escapes from plants, mainly through stomata in their leaves.

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• Dew point temperature is the temperature at which air becomes saturated when cooled at constant pressure without changing its water-vapour content.
• At the dew point, actual vapour pressure equals saturated vapour pressure, and condensation begins if cooling continues.

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• Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins.
• Proteins are formed when amino acids join together by peptide bonds.
• Proteins are essential for growth, repair, and body functions.
• There are 20 standard amino acids used to make proteins.

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• Apple is a deciduous fruit tree. 
• It sheds its leaves during autumn as it enters winter dormancy.
• Other examples include pear, peach, and plum trees.

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• In chain surveying, the area is divided into a framework of triangles.
• Because triangles are simple to measure and plot accurately.
• The preferred method is triangulation, using measured survey lines and offsets to locate details.
• Well-conditioned triangles, ideally with angles between 30∘ and 120∘, help reduce measurement errors.

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• Nematicide seed treatment: Appropriate nematicides can protect seedlings against certain plant-parasitic nematodes when the product is registered for the crop and target pest.
• Crop rotation: Growing non-host crops can reduce nematode populations in the soil.
• Resistant varieties: Planting resistant soybean varieties is an effective method of managing specific nematode species.

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