Useful for upcoming NABARD and AFO and other agri competitive Exams and students of Agriculture

1. 3rd lecture: General
Agriculture

2. Who was the chief architect of Green
Revolution that significantly improved the
agricultural yield in the country?
• a) MS Swaminathan
• b) VR Krisha Aiyyar
• c) V Kurien
• d) Jawaharlal Nehru
• a) MS Swaminathan

3. • In 1960-65, while facing severe shortage of rice and other food grains, he easily
prepared popular mindset to give up evening meals on Mondays. This was his way
of making people participate in the government's efforts to achieve national goal of
Food security.

4. About Green Revolution
• In 1961, India was on the brink of mass famine. Norman Borlaug was invited to
India by the adviser to the Indian minister of agriculture C. Subramaniam.
• Punjab was selected by the Indian government to be the first site to try the new
crops because of its reliable water supply and a history of agricultural success. The
first harvest with the new seeds was three times greater than the previous year's.
• India soon adopted IR8 – a semi-dwarf rice variety developed by the
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

5. • The main development was higher-yielding varieties of wheat, which were
developed by many scientists, including American agronomist Dr. Norman
Borlaug, Indian geneticist M. S. Swaminathan.
• The leader of a Mexican research term, U.S. agronomist Norman Borlaug,
was instrumental in introducing the new wheat to India and Pakistan and was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.

6. • M.S. Swaminathan is known as "Indian Father of Green Revolution”.
• Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) called
“the father of the Green Revolution.” in the world.
• Read this article: http://www.encyclopedia.com/plants-and-
animals/agriculture-and-horticulture/agriculture-general/green-revolution

7. Economic results of the Green Revolution
• High-yield varieties needed more water, more fertilizer, more pesticides,
fungicides and other chemicals. This spurred the growth of the local
manufacturing sector. Such industrial growth created new jobs and
contributed to the country's GDP.
• The increase in irrigation created need for new dams to harness monsoon
water. The water stored was used to create hydro-electric power. This in turn
boosted industrial growth, created jobs
• India paid back all loans it had taken from the World Bank and its affiliates
for the purpose of the Green Revolution.

8. What is Blue Revolution –
• a) It refers to big rise in catching of fresh water and marine fish.
• b) It stands for remarkable increase in milk production
• c) It refers to remarkably steady and assured supply of poultry products.
• d) It refers to a considerable rise in the production of quantity of apples
• a) It refers to big rise in catching of fresh water and marine fish.

10. The science concerned with Cultivation of
grapes.
• a) Viticulture
• b) Olericulture
• c) horticulture
• d) agriculture
• a) Viticulture

11. GRAPE
• Grape (Vitis sp.) belonging to Family
Vitaceae is a commercially important fruit
crop of India.
• Grapes are botanically classed as berries.

12. Rhizobium (a Bacteria) which fixes
atmospheric nitrogen are found in nodules
growing in
• a) Roots of leguminous plants
• b) Leaves of leguminous plants
• c) Stem of Leguminous plants
• d) All of the above.
• a) Roots of leguminous plants

13. Nitrogen Fixation by Legumes
• Nitrogen fixation is a process by which nitrogen in the Earth's atmosphere
is converted into ammonia (NH3) or other molecules available to living
organisms.
• The fixation process frees nitrogen atoms from their triply bonded diatomic
form, N≡N, to be used in other ways.
• Looser relationships between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and plants are often
referred to as associative or non-symbiotic, as seen in nitrogen fixation
occurring on rice roots.

16. In the harvested crop the grain seed is
separated from the chaff, husk and straw.
This process id called ___ ?
• a) Threshing
• b) Seeding
• c) Ploughing
• d) Weeding
• a) Threshing

17. Threshing vs. winnowing
• Winnowing is an agricultural method used for separating grain
from chaff.
• It involves throwing the mixture into the air so that the wind
blows away the lighter chaff, while the heavier grains fall back
down for recovery.
• While Threshing, the loosening of grain or seeds from the husks
and straw, is the step in the chaff-removal process that comes
before winnowing.

18. Growing different crops alternately on the
same land is technically called
• a) Crop Alternation
• b) Crop Rotation
• c) Crop Revolution
• d) Crop Change
• b) Crop Rotation

19. Which one of following is not Agro-based
industry:
• a) Cement Industry
• b) Jute Industry
• c) Cotton textile Industry
• d) Sugar Industry
• a) Cement Industry

20. Wheat is a
• a) Cash crop
• b) Cereal crop
• c) Covered crop
• d) None of these
• b) Cereal crop

21. About 90% of Rubber demand is met by
• a) Kerala
• b) Karnataka
• c) Tamil Nadu
• d) Maharashtra
• a) Kerala

22. Which of the following soil type has the
highest field capacity ?
• a) Loam
• b) Silty loam
• c) Clayey loam
• d) Clay
• d) Clay

23. The desired varieties of economically
useful crops are raised by
• (a) Vemalisation
• (b) Mutation
• (c) Natural selection
• (d) Hybridization
• (d) Hybridization

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