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Agro Climatic Zone is suitable land for growing a particular crop type.

Highlights:

It is essential to delineate the land in the country into agro-climatic zones for sustainable agricultural production.

The Agro Climatic Zone has two significant modifications – Climate and growing periods.

The Agro-Ecological Zone has four vital variables – climate, types, Landforms and length of the growing period.

An Agro-Ecological Zone is created from the Agro Climatic Zone. The land unit acts as a conditioner to climate and length of the growing period. There are 20 agro-ecological zones in India.

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research began the National Agricultural Research Project to set up zonal research centres in each agro-climatic zone.

These centres will analyse agro-ecological requirements and Cropping patterns in the regions.

There are 15 agro-climatic zones in India. They are,

Western Himalayas

Eastern Himalayas

Lower Gangetic plains

Middle Gangetic plains

Upper Gangetic plains

Trans Gangetic plains

Eastern plateau and hills

Central plateau and hills

Western plateau and hills

Southern plateau and hills

East coast plains and hills

West coast plains and hills

Gujarat Plains and Hills

Western dry region and islands.

The COVID 19 Vaccine Booster Shots are recommended by the INSACOG (Indian SARS CoV 2 Genomics Consortium) for people above 40.

Highlights:

The advice arises to counterbalance the Omicron risks in the country. The Omicron is a COVID-19 variant that was later identified in South Africa.

The World Health Organisation declared it a “Variant of Concern”. According to INSACOG, it isn’t easy to identify the presence of the variant in the more initial stages of its entry into the country.

Booster shots

The booster shots are the supplementary use of the vaccine, given after the protection afforded by the original shots begin to decline.

The booster shots help keep the immunity levels in people, and all Vaccines have booster shots.

The booster shots are given after a person has completed his vaccine series to increase the protection against the virus.

This is because the protection against the virus decreases over some time.

The Davis Cup 2021 was won by the Russian Tennis Federation.

Highlights:

The Davis Cup finals happened between Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev of Russia.

And Daniit Medvedev won the match, taking victory to the Russian Tennis Federation.

The Davis Cup is also named the World Cup of Tennis as it is an international team competition in men’s tennis.

The Billie Jean King Cup is the Women‘s equivalent of the Davis Cup. The International Tennis Federation conducts it on hard courts.

It first happened in 1900 as a trial between the US and Britain, and by 2016, 135 countries were participating in the tournament.

The most victorious countries of the Davis cup are the USA, Australia, New Zealand, where the USA has won the Davis Title 32 times, Australia has won 28 times.

It is a single-elimination tournament, as each match’s loser is immediately eliminated from the tournament.