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Improvement in Food Resources

Plant animal breeding and selection for quality improvement and management. Use of fertilizers, manures, protection from pests and diseases, organic farming.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not used for organic farming?

  1. Neem leaves
  2. Urea
  3. Recycled farm wastes
  4. Culture of blue-green algae
  5. Turmeric
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following water systems, water is directly drawn from the rivers for supplementing irrigation?

  1. Wells
  2. Canals
  3. Tanks
  4. River lift system
  5. River valley system
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not the advantage of mixed cropping?

  1. No risk of crop failure.
  2. Farmers can meet various requirements of family.
  3. Yield of both the crops increases.
  4. Less pest infection.
  5. Regular and reliable supply of water.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What are the characteristics of intercropping?

  1. Product of each crop can be marketed.
  2. Spraying of pesticides is difficult.
  3. Seeds of two crops are mixed before sowing.
  4. No set pattern of rows of crops.
  5. Its target is to minimise risk of crop failure.
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How can we protect the crops?

  1. By using pesticides
  2. By using resistant varieties
  3. Implementing crop rotation
  4. Summer ploughing
  5. All of the above
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a chewing insect?

  1. Aphid
  2. Leaf hopper
  3. Grass hopper
  4. Sugarcane borer
  5. Coton ball weevil
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the common name of Corcyra cephalonica?

  1. Rice weevil
  2. Pulse beetle
  3. Rice Moth
  4. Grain and flour moth
  5. Lesser Grain borer
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which biotic factors are responsible for the loss during storage of grains?

  1. Insects, rodents and moisture
  2. Mites, bacteria and rodents
  3. Temperature, birds and insects
  4. Temperature, humidity and rodents
  5. Mites, bacteria and moisture
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What are the preventive measures that are used before storage of grains?

  1. Hygenic condition and drying
  2. Prophylatic treatment
  3. Proper storage structure
  4. All of the above
  5. Both 1 and 3
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Match the name of insect pests with their respective zoological names.
1. Pulse beetle a. Callosobruchus maculatus
2. Rice weevil b. Trogoderma granarium
3. Khapra weevil c. Sitophilus oryzae

  1. 1 - a, 2 - c, 3 - b
  2. 1 - a, 2 - b, 3 - c
  3. 1 - c, 2 - b, 3 - a
  4. 1 - b, 2 - a, 3 - c
  5. 1 - b, 2 - c, 3 - a
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How can we control pests that attack the stored grains?

a. Spraying of insecticides over grains
b. Conversion of insecticide solution into fumes to kill the insects
c. Mixing neem kernel powder along with grains and adding legumes to grains

  1. Only a
  2. Only b
  3. Both a and b
  4. Both b and c
  5. All of the above
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_______ methods are used to control weeds.

  1. Mechanical
  2. Cultural
  3. Chemical
  4. All of the above
  5. Both (1) and (3)
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is atrazine?

  1. It is a pest.
  2. It is a herbicide.
  3. It is a fertiliser.
  4. It is an insect.
  5. It is a crop.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following does not represent common mixed cropping practices?

  1. Wheat + Chickpea
  2. Soyabean + Pigeon pea
  3. Wheat + Mustard
  4. Cotton + Jute
  5. Cotton + Groundnut
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How is crop rotation beneficial?

  1. Helps in replenishment of soil fertility
  2. Prevents depletion of selective nutrients
  3. Enhances production
  4. All of the above
  5. Both 2 and 3
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