UPMSP Intermediate Agricultural Zoology case studies
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UPMSP Intermediate Agricultural Zoology is the zoology component of the agriculture-group elective at Class 12 level, examined by the Uttar Pradesh Board of High School and Intermediate Education (UPMSP). It suits students in UP Board affiliated schools who plan to move into agriculture, horticulture, veterinary science or general zoology at degree level, and candidates using the subject to build background for agricultural competitive examinations. The UPMSP Intermediate Agricultural Zoology case studies are 5 cases and about 5,510 words.
1The damp wheat stack: borer, moth and mould in one room
Rajesh has stored 2.5 tonnes of wheat in 40 jute bags inside a mud-plastered room attached to his house. Grain moisture at harvest was 13.8%, and he sun-dried it for one day only.
1,090 words, about 5 min2A knapsack, a six-fold overdose and a collapsing sprayer operator
Sunil grows cotton on 1.6 ha and owns a 16-litre knapsack sprayer. The label of his insecticide, a 50% WP formulation of a contact organophosphate, recommends 500 g a.i.
1,083 words, about 5 min3Six defective calves and a bull with poor daughters
A village gaushala keeps 60 Murrah buffaloes and one pedigreed Murrah bull, used by natural service for three seasons; 22 of his daughters and 9 of his sons have been retained. In the last calving season, 6 calves sired by this bull died within a week of birth with fused digits and cleft palate; their dams are recorded as unrelated to the bull.
1,206 words, about 6 min4Eight bee colonies, a pyrethroid spray and a foul-smelling comb
A farmer in western Uttar Pradesh wants to add beekeeping to his 2 ha of mustard. In January he buys 8 colonies of Apis mellifera from a dealer, places them in his open courtyard beside a tube-well shed facing east, and feeds 1:1 sugar syrup every day.
1,049 words, about 5 min5Week-three mortality in a broiler shed with a borrowed labourer
A poultry unit houses 2,000 day-old broiler chicks in a 300 m² shed with a thatched roof, 5 cm of litter, one feeder per 40 birds and one drinker per 60 birds. Only Marek's vaccine was given, at the hatchery.
1,082 words, about 5 min