Question

Which crop is mainly grown using the Transplantation method?

Answer 1

Hint: In agriculture and farming techniques, Transplantation technique is a method where the plants are grown in a particular place (for example, a nursery) and then transferred or replanted in any other place (like in a farm).

Complete answer:
This technique is used particularly those crops which need to be given extra care, and plants that require much water to grow, or require submerged water conditions like a puddled field. Also, it is used as a technique to combat growing of weeds in farm fields.
This technique is widely used for paddy crops, i.e., rice. The seedlings of rice are grown in a nursery, then they are transferred to the fields after the saplings grow a little bit so that the shoots of the seedlings remain above water. Tomatoes are also cultivated using this method.
This method requires a smaller number of seeds, but at the same time it demands more labor work.
Also, plants grown using this technique take longer time to reach maturity (sexual maturity) due to a phenomenon called transplanting shock. This phenomenon occurs since we are actually uprooting a plant from a place and then placing it in another place, so this uprooting temporarily stops the development of the plant.
Also, this technique has a risk of the plants dying. So, this method is not so popular in the horticultural industry, and those where it is performed, it is done with care and caution.

Note:
The transplanting technique is also known as the replanting technique. This technique has been used in cultivation of crops like paddy and tomato since ancient times. Here the plants are at first grown in some place like a nursery and then transferred to another place or a farm once the seeds germinate and get converted into seedlings/saplings.