Punjab PSEB Senior Secondary NSQF Agriculture case studies
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The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) is the state school examination board for Punjab, India, headquartered at Vidya Bhawan, Phase-8, SAS Nagar (Mohali). It came into existence through a legislative enactment in November 1969 for the development and promotion of school education in the state of Punjab, and in 1987 the Vidhan Sabha amended the Board's Act to grant it autonomy. The Punjab PSEB Senior Secondary NSQF Agriculture case studies are 5 cases and about 3,691 words.
1Sowing wheat on 8 December: seed lot, seed rate and water scheduling
Harpreet Singh farms 4 ha of canal-plus-tubewell irrigated land near Ludhiana. His paddy, transplanted late, was harvested on 25 November and the field is now free for wheat.
731 words, about 4 min2Knapsack calibration, a worn nozzle and 2,4-D at the wrong stage
Gurmeet Kaur has 1.6 ha of wheat sown on 12 November. At 50 days after sowing, with the crop already jointing, she sprays 2,4-D sodium salt (80% WP) to control bathua and hirankhuri that have grown above the canopy.
726 words, about 4 min3Falling milk fat in a Murrah buffalo: ration or disease?
Rajwinder Kaur keeps four Murrah buffaloes near Gurdaspur. Her best animal, a 550 kg second-calver that calved 60 days ago, gives 10 L a day and began lactation at 6.9% fat.
779 words, about 4 min4Seven sprays and still pink bollworm: a resistance-management decision
Jasbir Singh grows 3 ha of BG-II Bt cotton near Bathinda, sown on 20 April. From the last week of July he has followed a fixed calendar: cypermethrin, then cypermethrin again, then quinalphos, then emamectin benzoate, each at 8–10 day intervals, reaching seven sprays by 20 September at about ₹1,100 per hectare per spray.
739 words, about 4 min5Buy a zero-till drill or hire one? Costing a 6 ha wheat sowing
Manpreet Singh has 6 ha of irrigated wheat to sow between 5 and 12 November. Custom hiring of a zero-till drill with tractor and driver is quoted at ₹1,300 per hectare, but the contractor has only one machine and cannot promise that window.
716 words, about 4 min