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Questions : ‘Pusa Bold’ is a variety of

(a) Wheat

(b) Gram

(c) Mustard

(d) Groundnut

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

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Question : 1

Which of the following are not examples of shifting cultivation? 

  1. Ladang
  2. Jhum
  3. Pondu
  4. Fazenda
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

a) 1 and 4

b) 1, 2, and 3

c) 3 and 4

d) 2 and 4

Answer: (c)

A Fazenda is a plantation found throughout Brazil; during the colonial period, they were concentrated primarily in the north eastern region, where sugar was produced, expanding during the 19th century in the south eastern region to coffee production.

Pondu is a traditional Congolese recipe for a classic stew of cassava leaves (saka-saka)

Question : 2

Rainbow Revolution is related with

a) Green revolution

b) Blue revolution

c) White revolution

d) All of the above

Answer: (d)

Question : 3

The chief characteristics of shifting cultivation are

  1. High dependence on manual labour
  2. Low level of technology
  3. Utilization of poor soils through fallowing
  4. Use of chemical fertilizers

a) 1, 2 and 4

b) 1, 3 and 4

c) 2, 3 and 4

d) 1, 2 and 3

Answer: (d)

Shifting cultivation is a type of farming where people make temporary clearings in the forest to grow food. When the soil is no longer fertile after two to three years, the shifting cultivators abandon the field to look for another suitable plot of land.

The first field is left to fallow, or rest, while the cultivators begin the cycle of activities on a new plot of land. The farmers may return to the same plot of land after 20 to 30 years.

Question : 4

Double cropping in agriculture means raising of

a) Two crops at different times

b) One crop along with other crop

c) Two crops simultaneously

d) None of the above

Answer: (a)

Question : 5

G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology was named in the memory of Govind Ballabh Pant?

a) 1970 A.D.

b) 1965 A.D.

c) 1960 A.D.

d) 1967 A.D.

Answer: (c)

G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology was founded in 1960, first agriculture university of the nation, was named in the memory of Govind Ballabh pant.

Question : 6

High yielding plants can be produced by

a) Crop Rotation

b) Inter-cropping

c) Hybridisation

d) Mixed - cropping

Answer: (c)

In biology and specifically, genetics, the term hybrid has several meanings, all referring to the offspring of sexual reproduction. Plant species hybridize more readily than animal species, and the resulting hybrids are more often fertile hybrids and may reproduce.

The cross-breeding of carefully chosen parent plants produces a combination of consistent traits that make hybrids better performers than either parent.

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