51. ICRISAT deals with____?
a) Millets
b) Wheat
c) Maize
d) Cotton
Answer (a): Millets
52. Mutations are?
a) Rarely useful
b) Always useful
c) Mostly useful
d) Always harmful
Answer (a): Rarely useful
53. How many factors have been identified for influencing plant growth
up till now?
a) 55
b) 52
c) 50
d) 60
Answer (b): 52
54. NPV refers to _____?
a) Nuclear polyhedrosis Virus
b) Non Polyhedrosis
c) Nuclear polyhedrosis viroids
d) None of these
Answer (a): Nuclear polyhedrosis Virus
57. Which among these is not an inorganic matter?
a) Magnesium
b) Fat
c) Iron
d) lodine
Answer (b): Fat
55. A manager who acts as a crisis manger is playing which of the roles?
a) Resource allocator
b) Entrepreneur
c) Negotiator
d) Disturbance handler
Answer (d): Disturbance handler
56. Arrangement of soil particles is referred to_____?
a) Soil texture
b) Soil structure
c) Soil organization
d) All of these
Answer (a): Soil structure
58. The ability to exert influence is called as?
a) Leadership
b) Authority
c) Administration
d) Power
Answer (b): Authority
59. Natural forests are being taken care of by professionals of_____?
a) Horticulture
b) Forestry
c) Farming
d) Agriculture
Answer (b): Forestry
60. The point at which the customer enters the supply chain is called____?
a) Customer penetration point
b) Order penetration point
c) Customer entry point
d) None of these
Answer (b): Order penetration point
61. What resources is a manger mainly concerned with?
a) land
b) raw material
c) Building
d) People
Answer (d): People
62. Irradiation is also known as _____?
a) Hot sterilization
b) Pascalization
c) Cold sterilization
d) None of these
Answer (c): Cold sterilization
63. Managing is best defined as _______?
a) Getting things done through subordinates
b) Planning
c) Creating a climate conducive to goal accomplishment
d) Decision making
Answer (c): Creating a climate conducive to goal accomplishment
64. Which stage of the decision making process helps the manager in
locating the problem?
a) Intelligence stage
b) Selection stage
c) Design stage
d) Implementation stage
Answer (a): Intelligence stage
65. The types of animal tissues include ______?
a) Epidermal tissues
b) Muscular tissues
c) Synthetic tissues
d) Ground tissue
Answer (b): Muscular tissues
66. Supply chain lead time is the sum of time taken for _____?
a) Sourcing the materials
b) Manufacturing the product
c) Delivering the finished product to the end customer
d) All of these
Answer (d): All of these
67. Where do grasshoppers lay eggs?
a) In water
b) In nests
c) In the soil
d) All of these
Answer (c): In the soil
68. Which is a single use plan that covers a relatively large set of activities?
a) Rule
b) Program
c) Procedure
d) Project
Answer (b): Program
69. Indicator plant for P deficiency indication is ______?
a) Maize
b) Tomato
c) Both Maize and Tomato
d) None of these
Answer (c): Both Maize and Tomato
70. Which is a common crop which is grown of natural autopolyploid?
a) Tomato
b) Rice
c) Cotton
d) Potato
Answer (d): Potato
71. Income elasticity of inferior goods is ______?
a) Between zero to one
b) Positive
c) Infinite
d) Negative
Answer (d): Negative
72. What is the most effective attribute of an effective leader?
a) Behaviour
b) Drive
c) Character
d) Influence
Answer (b): Drive
73. 3PL stands for?
a) Third party life
b) Third Party logistics
c) Third product life
d) Third product logistics
Answer (b): Third Party logistics
74. The word "Agronomy" has originated from ______?
a) Latin words
b) English words
c) German words
d) Greek words
Answer (d): Greek words
75. Complete metamorphosis is found in ______?
a) Exopterygota
b) Endopterygota
c) Apterygota
d) None of these
Answer (b): Endopterygota
76. India receives most of its rainfall from _____ monsoon?
a) N-W
b) N-E
c) S-W
d) S-E
Answer (c): S-W
77. One honey bee hive has ____ drones?
a) More than 300
b) 200 to 300
c) 1 to 5
d) 10 to 20
Answer (b): 200 to 300
78. In jute growing areas the usual alternate crop is ______?
a) Cotton
b) Sugarcane
c) Wheat
d) Rice
Answer (d): Rice
79. Most effective pesticides are ______?
a) Carbamates
b) Organochlorine
c) Organophosphates
d) All of these
Answer (d): All of these
82. Crop grown for sale to bring money immediately is termed as ______?
a) Catch crop
b) Cash crop
c) Trap crop
d) All of these
Answer (b): Cash crop
80. The ability of a microorganism to cause disease is called ______?
a) pathogenesis
b) Inoculum potential
c) Pathogenicity
d) Disease potential
Answer (c): Pathogenicity
81. Factors affecting international product planning is ______?
a) Political environment
b) Demography
c) Income of customers
d) All of these
Answer (d): All of these
83 Sunflower is an _______?
a) Annual herb
b) Biennial herb
c) Perennial herb
d) None of these
Answer (a) : Annual herb
84. Development of precision GIS/GPS auto negative systems increased
the efficiency of field operations in _______?
a) Precision farming
b) Terra-farming
c) Cooperative farming
d) Multistorey farming
Answer (a): Precision farming
85. Industrial relations consists of the relations between _______?
a) Employer and employees
b) State and Management
c) Union and management
d) All of these
Answer (a): Employer and employees
86. Price theory is a part of ______?
a) Macro economics
b) Farm management
c) Marketing
d) Micro economics
Answer (d): Micro economics
87. Yellow revolution represents the production of _____?
a) Oilseeds
b) Forage
c) Pulse
d) Cereal
Answer (a): Oilseeds
88. Group thinking has a danger of _____?
a) Erroneous decision
b) Biased decision
c) Ambiguous decision
d) Conflicting decision
Answer (a): Biased decision
89. An advance form of organizational design is ______?
a) Matrix organization
b) Divisional organization
c) Simple organization
d) Functional organization
Answer (d): Functional organization
90. Adaptation of a product refers to ______?
a) Standardisation of product
b) Adoption
c) Customisation
d) None of these
Answer (b): Adoption
91. Which process is used to make the harvested tobacco leaf ready for
the market?
a) Bulking
b) Curing
c) Loading in the barn
d) None of these
Answer (b): Curing
92. The practice of cultivation in the air is termed as _____?
a) Monoponic
b) Geoponic
c) Hydroponic
d) Aeroponic
Answer (d): Aeroponic
93. The agricultural prices are recommended by ______?
a) R.B.I
b) C.A.C.P
c) C.S.I.R
d) C.A.C.P.
Answer (b): C.A.C.P.
96. Genes do not occur in pairs ?
a) Somatic cells
b) Zygote
c) Endosperm cells
d) Gametes
Answer (d): Gametes
94. Average share of agricultural credit to total priority sector lending
decreased from 63.73 per cent in 2009-10 to ……………% 2019-20.
a) 18%
b) 24%
c) 58%
d) 26%
Answer (c): 58%
95. Which of these is included in the mental process of acceptance or
rejection of a new product?
a) Awareness
b) Knowledge
c) Evaluation
d) All of these
Answer (d): All of these
97. ECR stands for?
a) Effective customer reply
b) Effective customer response
c) Efficient consumer response
d) Effective consumer response
Answer (c): Efficient consumer response
98. The excess of income over consumption is called _____?
a) Surplus
b) Income
c) Services
d) Goods
Answer (a): Surplus
99. Which system provides the accurate positional information, which will
be more useful in locating the spatial variability with accuracy?
a) GPS
b) GIS
c) DSS
d) All of these
Answer (a): GPS
100. Covering the soil surface by any organic material is termed as_____?
a) Green manuring
b) Mulch
c) Nurse crop
d) None of these
Answer (b): Mulch
101. Global Food Security Index is published by?
a) The Economist Intelligence Unit
b) Food and Agricultural Organization
c) Amnesty International
d) World Economic Forum
Answer (a): The Economist Intelligence Unit
102. The tillage operation that is done in a field with standing water is
called____?
a) Ploughing
b) Planking
c) Hoeing
d) Puddling
Answer (d): Puddling
103. Which of the following is not a factor of production?
a) Customer
b) Land
c) Labour
d) Capital
Answer (a): Customer
104. Which system provides the accurate positional information, which
will be more useful in location the spatial variability with accuracy?
a) DSS
b) GPS
c) GIS
d) All of these
Answer (b): GPS
105. legumes crop also known as oilseeds ______?
a) Lentil
b) Urdbean
c) Soybean
d) Chickpea
Answer (c): Soybean
106. An exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes
is called ______?
a) Deletion
b) Mutation
c) Recombination
d) Crossing over
Answer (d): Crossing over
107. Urban agriculture contributes to ______?
a) Food security
b) Food safety
c) Both of these
d) None of these
Answer (c): Both of these
108. Which one of the following techniques is used to monitor crop health?
a) Surveillance
b) Vigilance
c) Remote sensing
d) All of these
Answer (d): All of these
109. Which cooperative bank acts as a link between state cooperative
bank and primary agricultural cooperative Society?
a) Central land development bank
b) District central cooperative bank
c) Primary land development bank
d) Regional Rural bank
Answer (b): District central cooperative bank
110. Which stage of the product life cycle causes the profit to improve
substantially?
a) Introduction stage
b) Maturity stage
c) Growth stage
d) All of these
Answer (c): Growth stage
111. The substance which causes a definite change in genes is called
____?
a) Alkaloid
b) Toxin
c) Cytotoxin
d) Mutagene
Answer (d): Mutagene
112. Different forms of a gene are called _____ ?
a) Supplementary genes
b) inhibitory genes
c) Alleles
d) Heterozygotes
Answer (b): Alleles
113. Soil is always acidic in nature?
a) Laterite
b) Calcareous
c) Alkaline
d) Saline
Answer (a): Laterite
115. Products which can be purchased frequently, immediately and with
little efforts are called Durable and non durable products?
a) Durable and non durable products
b) Homogenous products
c) Heterogenous products
d) Convenience products
Answer (d): Convenience products
117. Termites are very active during ______?
a) Day
b) Night
c) Day and night
d) None of these
Answer (c): Day and night
114. What are the factors of production?
a) Land
b) Labour
c) Capital
d) All of these
Answer (d): All of these
116. Flying foxes are ______?
a) Bats
b) Porcupine
c) Parrot
d) None of these
Answer (a): Bats
118. PLAM is a computerized prediction system for______?
a) Fire blight of apple and pear
b) Pea root rot
c) Peanut leaf spot
d) Potato late blight
Answer (a): Fire blight of apple and pear
119. Which is an element of the international environment?
a) Micro environment forces
b) Macro environment forces
c) Micro and macro environment forces
d) None of these
Answer (a): Macro environment forces
120. Which of these marketing systems was prevalent in the ancient
times?
a) Barter system
b) Modern system
c) Both a and b
d) None of these
Answer (a): Barter system
121 Insecticides kill _______?
a) Harmful insects
b) Only plant pests
c) Both harmful insects and useful insects
d) Specific insects
Answer (a): Harmful insects
122. Coordination is involved in which of the following functions?
a) Organizing and leading
b) Staffing and leading
c) Planning and controlling
d) Planning, Organizing, staffing, leading and controlling
Answer (d): Planning, Organizing, staffing, leading and controlling
123. Soils most suitable for agriculture are those whose PH value is
between ______?
a) 7 to 8
b) 5 to 6
c) 8 to 9
d) 6 to 7
Answer (d): 6 to 7
124. Chromosome numbers in somatic cells of a maize plant are _____?
a) 10
b) 7
c) 34
d) 20
Answer (d): 20
125. Which of these are steps of new product development?
a) Creation of ideas
b) Screening of ideas
c) Business analysis
d) All of these
Answer (d): All of these
128. Standardisation relates to ______?
a) Kinds
b) Tools
c) Production techniques
d) All of these
Answer (d): All of these
126. Supply chain mapping is the study of_____?
a) Logistics network
b) Activities sequence
c) Value and non value added activities
d) All of these
Answer (c): Value and non value added activities
127. The break even pricing strategy is also called ______?
a) Marginal pricing
b) Target return pricing
c) Learning pricing
d) Markup return pricing
Answer (b): Target return pricing
130. According to Tuckman's theory, the end phase of group development
stage is called as ______?
a) Adjourning
b) Performing
c) Storming
d) Norming
Answer (a): Adjourning
129. Insects are studied in _______?
a) Taxonomy
b) Entomology
c) Immunology
d) Palaeontology
Answer (b): Entomology
131. Management is ______?
a) Power of getting things done
b) People who manage
c) An organized body of knowledge
d) The board of directors
Answer (a): Power of getting things done
132. Which is the first step involved in the implementation of the supply
chain management system?
a) Purchasing (sourcing)
b) Planning (scheduling)
c) Logistics (delivery)
d) All of these
Answer (b): Planning (scheduling)
133. Which of the following is an external, material and non-transferable
good?
a) Skill of a doctor
b) Conduct certificate of student
c) Good will of business
d) Table
Answer (b): Conduct certificate of student
136. Which state in India is leading in tea production?
a) Darjeeling (WB)
b) Assam
c) Nilgiree hills (TN)
d) Kerala
Answer (b): Assam
137. The department of agriculture, revenue and commerce was set up in
______?
a) 1861
b) 1891
c) 1899
d) 1871
Answer (d): 1871
134. Which is the essential base for all metabolic processes?
a) Water
b) Carbohydrates
c) Proteins
d) Vitamins
Answer (a): Water
135. Genetics deals with _____?
a) Heredity
b) Heredity and variations
c) Variations
d) Genes
Answer (b): Heredity and variations
138. Which is not a preservation method in fruit and vegetables?
a) Refrigeration
b) Peeling
c) Canning
d) Pickling
Answer (b): Peeling
141. The scope of product planning is ______?
a) Wide
b) Narrow
c) Medium
d) None of these
Answer (a): Wide
139. Terracing helps in soil conservation in ______?
a) Hilly areas
b) Deserts
c) Wet areas
d) Plains
Answer (a): Hilly areas
140. The practice of raising plants and animals is called ______?
a) Agronomy
b) Horticulture
c) Silviculture
d) Agriculture
Answer (d): Agriculture
142. The branch of agriculture which deals with the principles and
practices of crop production and field management is called?
a) Agriculture
b) Sericulture
c) Agroforestry
d) Agronomy
Answer (d): Agronomy
143. Which of the following countries is the centre of origin of rice?
a) Russia
b) India
c) Indo-Malayan region
d) China
Answer (b): India
144. What is a product?
a) Physical goods
b) Services
c) Ideas
d) All of these
Answer (d): All of these
145. Sweet potato aphid attacks mainly on _____?
a) Leaves
b) Stem
c) Roots
d) All of these
Answer (a): Leaves
146. Who introduced tobacco cultivation in India?
a) Portuguese merchants
b) Americans
c) Persians
d) Chinese
Answer (a): Portuguese merchants
147. The desirable depth of ploughing for shallow rooted crops is _____
cm?
a) 31 to 35
b) 6 to 8
c) 15 to 30
d) 10 to 20
Answer (d): 10 to 20
148. Nymphs of red cotton bug also damage
a) Gram
b) Wheat
c) Sugarcane
d) Okra
Answer (d): Okra
149. Situational approach is otherwise called as______?
a) System approach
b) Contingency approach
c) Human resource approach
d) Quantitative approach
Answer (b): Contingency approach
150. The main purpose of a farmer is______?
a) High net profit
b) High living standards
c) Minimum cost of cultivation
d) High production
Answer (d): High production
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