UPMSP High School Agriculture case studies
UPMSP High School Agriculture · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The UPMSP High School Agriculture paper is the elective subject examination taken by Class X students under the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UP Board). It suits students who want a practical, science-linked subject alongside their compulsory papers, and it also serves as a first step toward intermediate agriculture, diploma courses, or work on a family farm. The UPMSP High School Agriculture case studies are 5 cases and about 4,973 words.
1White crust, patchy wheat and a ₹15,000 reclamation budget
Ramesh farms 1.2 hectares in Kanpur Dehat in a rice–wheat rotation. His last wheat crop (sown 20 November at 120 kg/ha) germinated very unevenly: bare patches with a white powdery crust appeared where the soil dried after the first irrigation, and roughly 30 per cent of the seedlings died within three weeks.
947 words, about 5 min2Wheat on 20 December: late sowing, poor seed and a food-security target
Sunita Devi farms 2.0 hectares in Bareilly district. Her paddy was transplanted late in July and harvested on 12 December, so the field is free only on 18 December.
933 words, about 5 min3Fall armyworm in whorl-stage maize with a market date and a beehive nearby
Amar Singh has 0.8 hectare of hybrid maize sown on 5 July in Lalitpur district. Today is 12 August; the crop is about 38 days old and at the 8–10 leaf stage.
1,026 words, about 5 min4Six irrigations, a six-hour power window and a sloping field
A farmer in Fatehpur has 1.0 hectare of wheat sown on 22 November on a clay loam. He owns a 5 hp tube well delivering 600 litres per minute, but power is available only for 6 hours a day, and the pump uses 1.8 litres of diesel per hour when the grid fails.
1,046 words, about 5 min5A crossbred cow down from 15 to 11 litres, and ₹1,200 to spend
Kamla Devi of Sitapur keeps one crossbred cow (Holstein Friesian × Sahiwal), 4 years old, in her second lactation, calved 70 days ago and weighing about 400 kg. Milk yield was 15 litres a day in the first month and has fallen to 11 litres at 3.6 per cent fat.
1,021 words, about 5 min