General agriculture pointer - 54

1. Low volume sprayer – (power sprayer)

2. ‘ulv sprayer’ means – (ultra low volume sprayer)

3. Ulv sprayers require – (less than 5 litre per hectare)

4. Low volume sprayers require – (50 to 200 litres per hectare)

5. High volume sprayers require – (more than 500 litres per hectare)

6. Pests generally cause approximately – (30–50% crop loss)

7. Rachel carson’s famous book ‘silent spring’ was published in – (1962)

8. Bengal famine of 1943 was due to a – (fungus)

9. “all insecticides are pesticides, but not all pesticides are insecticides” – (true)

10. Crop consuming maximum plant protection chemicals in india – (cotton)

11. Largest consumed pesticides in india – (insecticides)

12. Nearly 80% of plant protection chemicals used in india belong to – (insecticides)

13. Anti juvenile hormone insecticide – (precosine)

14. Example for chemosterilant – (tepa/metepa)

15. Juvenile hormone insecticide – (altosid)

16. Insecticide of fungal origin – (spinosad/mycotal/vertalec)

17. Insecticide of actinomycetic origin – (avermectin/milbemycin)

18. Insecticide prepared from viruses – (virtuss/gypchek/neochek)

19. Copper arsenate otherwise known as – (paris green)

20. Insecticidal properties of ddt discovered by – (dr. paul muller)

21. Insecticidal properties of bhc discovered by – (dupire)

22. First modern plant protection success: control of colorado potato beetle using – (paris green, 1867)

23. ‘vrikshayurveda’ written by – (surpala)

24. Copper sulphate used to control smut disease in wheat discovered by – (prevost)

25. Sulphur used to control powdery mildew discovered by – (robertson)

26. Copper-containing fungicide – (bordeaux mixture/burgundy mixture/cheshunt mixture/cuprous oxide/copper oxy chloride)

27. ‘thiram’ developed by – (tisdale & williams)

28. Example for organo-sulphur fungicide – (maneb/zineb/ferbam)

29. First systemic fungicide – (oxathiin)

30. ‘oxathiin’ developed by – (von-schmeling & marshal kulka)

31. Systemic fungicide – (bavistin/ridomil)

32. Wetting agent in pesticide formulations – (polyethylene oxide/fatty acid esters)

33. Example for emulsifier – (sodium oleate/tri ethanol amine)

34. Example for spreaders – (soap/flour)

35. Example for stickers – (fish oil/linseed oil)

36. Example for deflocculating agent – (gelatin)

37. Example for safeners – (zinc sulphate)

38. ‘metacid’ is the trade name of – (methyl parathion)

39. ‘sumithion’ is the trade name of – (fenitrothion)

40. ‘malathion’ is the trade name of – (mercaptathion)

41. ‘asataf’ is the trade name of – (acephate)

42. ‘dithane z 78’ is the trade name of – (zineb)

43. ‘dithane m45’ is the trade name of – (mancozeb)

44. ‘indofil m45’ is the trade name of – (mancozeb)

45. ‘tilt’ is the trade name of – (propeconazole)

46. ‘contaf’ is the trade name of – (hexaconazole)

47. ‘calixin’ is the trade name of – (tridemorph)

48. Has knockdown action – (pyrethrum)

49. Neem contains – (azadirachtin)

50. Commercial formulation of ‘nereistoxin’ – (padan)

51. Insecticidal property of ddt discovered in – (1939)

52. Ddt originally discovered in 1874 by – (othnar zeidlar)

53. Bhc discovered in 1825 by – (michael faraday)

54. ‘lindane’ is a purified form of – (bhc)

55. Bhc expands to – (benzene hexa chloride)

56. Bhc now commonly known as – (‘hch’ – hexa chloro cyclo hexane)

57. First organo-phosphorus insecticide – (bladan)

58. Bladan discovered in 1937 by – (gerhard schrader)

59. Organo-phosphorus insecticides have – (broad-spectrum activity)

60. Food poisoning deaths in kerala (1960, sasthamkotta) due to – (parathion in sugar)

61. Systemic granular insecticide – (phorate)

62. Functions as insecticide & nematicide – (phorate/aldicarb/dimethoate/phenthoate)

63. Synthetic pyrethroids developed in – (1973)

64. Synthetic pyrethroid – (lambda cyhalothrin/karate)

65. In plant protection, ‘gv’ means – (granulosis virus)

66. Fungal species with insecticidal properties – (beauveria/metarrhizium/verticillium/hirsutella)

67. Protectant fungicide – (zineb/maneb)

68. Therapeutant fungicide – (oxathiin/aureofunginsol)

69. Eradicant fungicide – (sulphur mix)

70. Contact fungicide – (bordeaux mixture/thiram/maneb)

71. Systemic fungicide – (benomyl/oxathiin/carbendazim/tridemorph/metalaxyl)

72. Fungicide used for seed treatment – (captan/thiram)

73. Millardet identified bordeaux mixture properties in – (1882)

74. Bordeaux mixture mainly used for – (foliar application)

75. Concentration of bordeaux mixture – (1%)

76. Bordeaux paste mainly used for – (wound dressing)

77. Concentration of bordeaux paste – (10%)

78. Cheshunt compound mainly used for – (soil drenching)

79. Cheshunt compound contains – (copper sulphate & ammonium carbonate)

80. Organic sulphur fungicide – (thiram/ziram/ferbam/zineb/maneb)

81. Heterocyclic nitrogenous fungicide – (captafol/captan)

82. Organo-phosphorus fungicide – (ediphenphos/kitazin/triodemefon)

83. Antifungal antibiotic – (aureofunginsol/streptomycin)

84. ‘green fungicide’ – (tricyclazol/validamycin/fosetyl-al)

85. Mites belong to phylum & class – (arthropoda & arachnida)

86. Commonly used acaricide – (sulphur)

87. Acaricides kill – (mites)

88. Nematicide – (dd mixture/edb/vapam/nemagon)

89. Can be used as a molluscicide – (metaldehyde/carbofuran/phorate/copper sulphate/sodium chloride)

90. Mollusc species damaging crops in kerala – (giant african snail)

91. Most common gastropod pests – (slugs & snails)

92. Dust formulations applied using – (dusters)

93. Majority of plant diseases in kerala caused by – (fungus)

94. Fungus causing many diseases in kerala – (phytophthora)

95. Reproductive structures of fungus – (spores)

96. Fungal body composed of – (mycelia)

97. Downy mildew caused by fungus – (plasmopara)

98. In kerala, majority of diseases observed in – (monsoon seasons)

99. Colour indicating extremely toxic poisons – (bright red)

100. Colour indicating highly toxic poisons – (bright yellow)