Question

The nursery for the paddy monsoon is crop is called
A) Dalva
B) Salva
C) Dondakaya
D) None of the above

Answer 1

Hint: The main monsoon season in India runs from June to September. Wet-rice cultivation is the most predominant form of farming in the Far East, where it uses a limited fraction of the total land.

Complete answer:
Salva is the nursery for the monsoon paddy crop. Paddy, also known as rice paddy, is a thin, level, flooded field used in southern and eastern Asia for rice cultivation. In the months of June and July, the nursery for the paddy monsoon crop referred to as salva is seeded and transplanted, often high yielding paddy varieties such as MTU, 2716, swarna and BPT. The most prevalent form of farming in the Far East is wet rice cultivation, where it uses a small fraction of the total land but feeds the majority of the rural population.

Now lets us look into the given options
A) Dalva : They sow a winter crop referred to as dalva from the month of the Gregorian calendar month. Thus this is the wrong option.
B) Salva : Salva is the nursery for the monsoon paddy crop. Thus this is the correct option.
C) Dondakaya : Dondakaya is also known as ivy gourd is a tropical perennial plant thus this is the wrong option.
D) None of the above: As the correct option is B so this option is wrong.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note:
-The state paddy cultivation goal for this year's Kharif season is 3.3 million hectares.
-Besides pulses and oilseeds, paddy is the main Kharif crop. Paddy is generally known as Rice.
-China recently imported 100,000 tonnes of rice from India for the first time in decades amid Ladakh amid Ladakh standoff.