PROTECTED CULTIVATION AND SECONDARY AGRICULTURE
2 MARKS
1. Define greenhouse effect
2. Categorize greenhouse cooling system
3. Explain greenhouse utilization in off- season
4. State different methods of moisture measurement of agricultural produces
5. If 10 g of grains ( ww) is weighed into a 4g container and after drying the container
plus grains weight 6.3 g . find the percent moisture.
6. Illustrate rotary dryers.
7. Define Protected Cultivation
8. List the greenhouse cladding materials
9. List any two points considered during site selection for a greenhouse.
10. What is a shadenet house?
11. Differentiate Summer cooling and winter cooling,
12. Perimeter watering
13. Passive Solar Greenhouse
14. Use of Greenhouse drying
15. Explain sphericity
16. Draw the drying rate curves
17. Brief on solar dryer
18. How selection of material handling machines is done?
19. List the different sections of Bucket conveyor
20. List two limitation in material hand
5 MARKS
1. What are the various design styles of greenhouses?
2. Brief the advantages of green house.
3. Brief about the fan and pad cooling system in green house.
4. Brief about fog cooling system
5. Differentiate between passive and active cooling systems
6. What are the structural parts of a greenhouse?
7. Draw a neat labelled sketch of a greenhouse and explain the structural components.
8. Explain the various irrigation systems used in greenhouse with a neat sketch.
9. Explain the typical application of greenhouses.
10. Brief on economic analysis of a greenhouse.
11. Explain the construction and working of LSU dryer with a neat sketch.
12. Explain the construction and working of Belt conveyor with a neat sketch.
13. Explain the different types of greenhouses based on various aspects with neat
sketches.
14. 1000 kg of paddy is harvested at 25% Moisture Content, and dried down to 14%
Moisture Content, what is the final weight of the dried grain? .
15. Define greenhouse effect
16. Photosynthesis reaction
17. Classification of greenhouse
18. List out the greenhouse covering material
19. Write the site selection and orientation of greenhouse
20. Structural components of greenhouse
21. Why protected cultivation is preferred?
22. Explain the rules of watering in a greenhouse
23. Describe hot air greenhouse heating system.
24. Elucidate the thermal properties of grains.
25. Explain the working of pneumatic conveyor.
26. Comment on the orientation of greenhouses
27. Explain solar heating system
28. Write a note on passive solar greenhouse.
