General agriculture pointers- 16 ✓

1. State having the highest area under summer maize is: Bihar.
2. Indian Journal of Agriculture Sciences is published by: ICAR.
3. The element of nitrate reduction is the: Molybdenum.
4. Depth of water required by a crop is known as: Delta.
5. Area irrigated by one cusec discharge of water is: Duty.
6. AGMARK Act was enforced in the year: 1937.
7. The enzyme of nitrogen reduction is: Nitrogenase.
8. Fruit of okra is a: Capsule.
9. Fruit of rose is known as: Hips.
10. How many times a ratoon crop of sugarcane is advisable? One time.
11. Dormancy breaking hormone is: Cytokinin.
12. Fruit ripening hormone is: Ethylene.
13. Water requirement of irrigation for wetland rice is about: 1500 mm.
14. Crop canopy temperature is measured by: Infrared thermometer.
15. First insecticide discovered was: DDT.
16. Grapes are generally dried in: Sun.
17. Pollination in fig is carried by: Fig wasp.
18. Kesar (saffron) belongs to the family of: Iridaceae.
19. Fibre of cotton contains: Cellulose.
20. Biofertilizer used in wheat is: Azotobacter.
21. Lock and Key Model was proposed by: Fisher.
22. Finest fruit of the world: Mangosteen.
23. Kisan Call Centre began in the year: 2004.
24. Double century is the variety of: Coconut.
25. Anti-sterility vitamin is: Vitamin E.
26. Hormone used as an herbicide: 2,4-D (>20 PPM).
27. First Indian director of IARI was: Dr. B. Vishvanath.
28. Vertical mulch is used in which type of soils? Black cotton soils.
29. Root promoting hormones: IBA (Indole-3-butyric acid).
30. Flower setting hormone: NAA (Naphthalene acetic acid).
31. Central Zig-Zag axis of wheat is called: Rachis.
32. Mexican dwarf wheat was evolved by: Dr. N. E. Borlaug.
33. The toxic alkaloid found in the leaves of sorghum crops is: Dhurin or HCN.
34. CSH 1 was released as the first dwarf sorghum hybrid in: 1964.
35. Father of agro-climatology is: Köppen.
36. Law of minimum was given by: Von Liebig (1840).
37. Top most mineral horizon is: A horizon.
38. Criteria of essentiality was proposed by: Arnon & Stout (1939).
39. The term fictional nutrient was proposed by: Nicholas (1961).
40. In the wet nursery of rice, the level of water is maintained at: 5 cm.
41. The optimum depth of puddling in rice is: 5 cm.
42. Maximum permissible limit of biuret in urea is: 1.5%.
43. Carbon content in organic matter is: 8%.
44. Pajaro is the variety of: Strawberry.
45. Bolero is the variety of: Marigold.
46. General Agricultural One-Liner Questions
47. Light reaction is also known as: Hill reaction.
48. Most dangerous disease of potato: Late blight of potato.
49. Philology disease in plants is caused by: Mycoplasma.
50. Who discovered vitamin: Funk.
51. Regur soil refers to: Black soil.
52. One ha. cm of irrigation is equal to: 100,000 liters.
53. Highly salt-tolerant cereal crop is: Barley.
54. Irrigation efficiency of loam soil is: 70%.
55. Area required for seedling preparation in the depog method: 25-30 m².
56. In mango, the edible part is: Mesocarp.
57. Miracle rice of India is: Jaya.
58. Starch in wheat grain is: 60-68%.
59. Moisture content at the harvesting stage in wheat is: 25-30%.
60. Richest source of Vitamin C is: Barbados cherry.
61. Queen of spices is: Cardamom.
62. Mendel began his famous experiments on pea in: 1857.
63. One gene one enzyme hypothesis was proposed by: Beadle and Tatum in 1941.
64. The term heterosis was first used by: Shull in 1914.
65. Heterosis is also known as: Hybrid vigor.
66. An exact genetic replica of a specific gene or an entire organism is called: Clone.
67. Anther or pollen culture technique is used to obtain: Haploid plants.
68. Culture of an organ in vitro is known as: Organ culture.
69. M-RNA is primarily used for: Transcription of DNA.
70. Fungicide used in the control of smut is: Vitavax.
71. Father of modern plant pathology is: Anton de Bary.
72. Pusa Snowball is a variety of: Cauliflower.
73. Phosphorus is extracted by: Olsen method.
74. World’s staple food is: Rice.
75. The trade name of BHC is: Grammexone.
76. Neutral parthenocarpy is found in: Banana.
77. First hybrid in the world of red gram is: ICPH-8.
78. A fruit juice normally contains 25% juice and 40% TSS: Squash.
79. Mango pulp is preserved by: Sugar.
80. Commercial propagation method of rose is: ‘T’ budding.
81. Who discovered mitochondria: C. Benda (1897).
82. Yellow vein mosaic virus disease is related to: Bhindi (Okra).
83. The process by which human behavior is modified is called: Education.
84. Extension education is: Education.
85. Power tiller is most suitable for the cultivation of: Paddy.
86. Depth of sowing of soybean seed is: 3 cm.
87. Temperature required for bolting in onion is: < 15 °C.
88. Seed rate of knol khol is: 1-1.5 kg/ha.
89. Economic part of knol khol is: Extended stem.
90. The fruit of rose is known as: Hip.
91. Rose can be cultivated up to: 5 years.
92. To prepare 1 litre of Bordeaux mixture, 10 grams of copper sulphate is required.
93. To study two factors with different levels of precision, the Split plot design is used.
94. To test the goodness of fit or homogeneity, we use the Chi-square test.
95. Thiodan is the trade name of Endosulfan.
96. Thiram, an organo-sulphur fungicide, was developed by Tisdale & William.
97. Third generation insecticides are known as Hormonal insecticides.
98. Thomson seedless is a variety of Grapes.
99. The thornless species of citrus is Tahiti lime (C. latifolia).
100. The thornless variety of rose is called Chitra.