PSEB SS Agriculture case studies
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PSEB SS Agriculture is the Agriculture elective within the Senior Secondary (Class 12) programme of the Punjab School Education Board, the state school examination board that came into existence through a legislative enactment in November 1969 for the development and promotion of school education in the state of Punjab. The Board's Act was amended by the Vidhan Sabha in 1987 to grant it autonomy, and the Board now covers almost every aspect and stage of school education, publishing syllabi, e-books, question banks, model test papers and question paper structures through its Academics Wing. The PSEB SS Agriculture case studies are 5 cases and about 3,586 words.
1Late-sown wheat: nitrogen, resistant Phalaris and two canal turns
Harpreet Singh has 5 acres of sandy loam in a canal command area. Paddy was combine-harvested on 20 December and wheat was sown on 28 December, about three weeks after the normal window for his district.
800 words, about 4 min2Straw, the sowing deadline and a Happy Seeder booking
Gurmeet Kaur farms 8 acres in the paddy–wheat belt. Her paddy was combine-harvested on 5 November and left about 4.5 tonnes of straw per acre, mostly as a loose windrow plus standing stubble.
736 words, about 4 min3Pink bollworm in Bt cotton: spray decision and crop termination
Jaswinder Singh has 6 acres of Bt cotton sown on 10 May in sandy loam. He placed four pheromone traps per acre.
687 words, about 3 min4Ration, repeat breeders and a culling decision in a crossbred herd
Balwinder Singh keeps 10 Holstein-Friesian crossbred cows, stall-fed. Average yield is 9 litres a day, ranging from 6 to 14 litres, and milk fat is 3.2%.
714 words, about 4 min5Button mushroom unit with no pinning: environment, ammonia and break-even
Ravinder has set up a button mushroom unit in a 20 ft × 12 ft room with four-tier iron racks, using 1,000 kg of commercially prepared pasteurised compost. He mixed 5 kg of spawn (0.5% of compost weight), filled the trays, and applied a 2 cm casing layer three days after spawning.
649 words, about 3 min