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Agriculture · Q112

Agronomy

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 112

Q112

Under dry land farming areas, potential evapo-transpiration is more than

A.
Evaporation
B.
Transpiration
C.
Precipitation
Answer
D.
None of these

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Potential Evapotranspiration or PET is the combined loss of water through the plant's process of transpiration via its vascular system at the same time evaporation of water from the earth's surface. While Precipitation is in the form of water falling out of the sky to the earth. And under dryland farming areas, PET is more than Precipitation.