Cover crop

A close growing crop which covers the soil surface and protect it froms erosion, weed growth and evaporational loss of water.

Cash crop

There are such crops which may be sold directly from the field without processing like potato, maize cobs etc.

Catch crop

There are such crops which are grown to catch the season when main crop of the season fails due to flood, frost or drought etc.

Cropping system

This shows the system in which varius crops are grown together on a piece of land like mixwd, inter or relay cropping etc.

Cropping Scheme

It is a theorotical chart showing different crop rotations to be included on a farm or plot during a given period of time.

Crop rotation

It is a process of growing different types of crops one after the other with a view of getting maximum profit without losing soil fertility. It is always mentioned for a specififc piece of land duringa fices period of time. This is also callled as sequential cropping.

Cropping pattern

This shows the sequence in which various crops are grown in a locality or a zone which is influenced by agroclimatic and socioeconomic factors prevailing in that zone.

Crop classification

This refers to grouping and regrouping of crops based on their similarity in characteristics, requirements, adaptation and utility.

Baegasse

Remains of sugarcane stem after extraction of juice.

B' line

Female fertile parent used for production of hybrid seeds which is also called as maintainer line.

Back-cross

Process of crossing a hybrid back to one of its parent whose characters are lacking in the hybrids.

Bad Tillage

Operation carried out wins observing the vaspa condition and not maintain the normal sequence of tillage.

Bale

Refers well compacted cotton/ tobacoo leaves ready for marketing.

Band Application

When fertilizer is applied in band along with crop row.

Bar

A unit of pressure equal to one million dynes per square centimetre.

Basal Treatment

Herbicidal treatment applied to the stem of woody plants above the ground level.

Basic slag

A by-product of a steel industry obtained from phosphate iron ore which contains about 6-18 percent acid soluble phosphoric acid.

Biennial

A plant completes its life cycle in two years.

Bin

An enclosed strucuture made for grain storage.

Binary fertilizers

Those fertilizers which supply two major nutrients to the plants like ammonium phosphate, diammonium phosphate and nitrophosphate etc.