With reference to the current trends in the cultivation of sugarcane in India, consider the following statements: 1. A substantial saving in seed material is when bud chip settlings are raised in a nursery and transplanted in the main field. 2. When direc

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Q: (IAS/2020)
With reference to the current trends in the cultivation of sugarcane in India, consider the following statements:
1. A substantial saving in seed material is when ‘bud chip settlings’ are raised in a nursery and transplanted in the main field.
2. When direct planting of setts is done, the germination percentage is better with single-budded setts as compared to setts with many buds.
3. If bad weather conditions prevail when setts are directly planted, single-budded setts have better survival as compared to large setts.
4. Sugarcane can be cultivated using settlings prepared from tissue culture.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

question_subject: 

Geography

question_exam: 

IAS

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{'sugarcane': [2, 2, 2, 7], 'cultivation': [2, 1, 1, 0], 'direct planting': [0, 0, 0, 2], 'germination percentage': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'seed material': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'bud chip settlings': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'tissue culture': [2, 0, 0, 0], 'settlings': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'setts': [0, 0, 0, 1]}

Option 1 suggests that only statements 1 and 2 are correct. Statement 1 is indeed correct as "bud chip settlings" in nurseries can lead to substantial savings in seed material when transplanted to the main field. However, statement 2 is incorrect because the germination percentage is not necessarily better with single-budded setts as compared to setts with multiple buds when directly planted.

Option 2 suggests that only statement 3 is correct, but this statement is not necessarily true. The survival of setts in bad weather conditions may not necessarily depend on whether they are single-budded or have multiple buds.

Option 3 suggests that statements 1 and 4 are correct, which is indeed the case. Besides substantial saving in seed material with `bud chip settlings` (Statement 1), sugarcane can indeed be cultivated using settlings prepared from tissue culture (Statement 4).

Option 4 suggests that statements 2,3, and 4 are correct, but as previously explained, statements 2 and 3 are not necessarily true. Hence, this option is incorrect. Therefore, the correct answer is option 3, "1 and 4".