General agriculture pointer - 100

 

1. The Curculionid biocontrol agent of beetle is Neochetina eichhorniae.
2. The Curculionid biocontrol agent of Salvinia is Cyrtobagous salviniae.
3. Curing practice is done for Tobacco and Tea.
4. Curling of leaf upwards and yellowing of terminal cotton shoots is a characteristic symptom of the presence of Cotton Aphid.
5. Cuscuta is a Complete stem parasite.
6. Cuscuta is otherwise known as Dodder.
7. CYI means Crop Yield Index.
8. Crops which are cultivated to catch the forthcoming season when the main crop fails are called Catch/Contingent Crops.
9. Crops which are grown to supplement the yield of the main crops are known as Augment Crops.
10. Crops that are grown to protect the main cash crop from certain pests are called Trap Crops.
11. Crops that protect another crop from animal passing or restrict wind speed, mainly grown as a border, are known as Border/Guard Crops.
12. A cross between two genetically different homozygous plants is called a Hybrid or F1.
13. Crossing of plants through the fusion of somatic cells is known as Somatic hybridization.
14. Crossing over and recombination occur during Meiosis division.
15. CSH-6 is a short-duration variety of Sorghum.
16. Cultivated pumpkin is botanically known as Cucurbita moschata.
17. Cultivation of crops in areas receiving rainfall from 750 to 1150 mm per annum is referred to as Dryland Farming.
18. Cultivation of crops in areas where average annual rainfall is <750 mm per annum is called Dry Farming.
19. The crop growing season of dryland farming is 75 – 120 days.
20. The crop having allelopathic influence by Nut sedge is Maize.
21. Crop production + livestock raising is referred to as Mixed farming.
22. Crop production and dairy enterprise have a Supplementary relationship.
23. Crop rotation practiced by the majority of farmers in a given area or locality is called a Cropping Pattern.
24. Crop rotation is an example of a Cultural method of insect pest control.
25. Silk is produced by the End of larval stage of the silkworm.
26. Crop weather calendar is used for Finding crop-weather relationship.
27. The crop which is highly susceptible to frost is Potato.
28. Cropped along with wild land weeds are known as Facultative weeds.
29. The cropping intensity of India is 137%.
30. The cropping intensity of maize-potato-wheat is 300%.
31. Crops which are cultivated on ploughed land are known as Arable crops.
32. Cowpea seeds are inoculated with Rhizobium for better yield.
33. CREMENT means Crop and Resource Management Network.
34. Crescograph was invented by Jagadish Chandra Bose.
35. ‘Cricket Ball’ and ‘Oval’ are varieties of Sapota.
36. CRIDA is located at Hyderabad.
37. CRIDA stands for Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (Hyderabad).
38. Crimson Glory and Super Star are types of Hybrid tea roses.
39. Criollo, Forastero, and Trinitario are three varietal types of Cocoa.
40. The critical stage for irrigation in barley is the Tillering Stage (30–35 DAS).
41. Crop destructive stages in the life cycle of beetles are Adults & Grubs.
42. Crop destructive stages in the life cycle of bugs are Adults & Nymphs.
43. Crop distribution throughout the world is largely influenced by Climate.
44. “Coreid bug” is a pest of Coconut.
45. Corms and cormels are the planting materials of Gladiolus.
46. Correlation lies between -1 to +1.
47. Coryza and Marek’s disease are diseases affecting Poultry.
48. Cosmolure is a pheromone trap used against the Banana Pseudostem weevil.
49. Cost A1 + rent paid for based land is Cost A2.
50. Cost A2 + interest on the value of owned capital assets (including land) is Cost B1.
51. Cost B1 + rental value of owned land and rent paid for leased land is Cost B2.
52. Cost calculated per hectare is known as Cost of Production (COC).
53. Cotton is popularly known in America as White gold.
54. Cottony Cushion Scale is a pest of Citrus.
55. Cow dung slurry application is a method to control Bacterial Leaf Blight.
56. Cow pea aphids can be controlled biologically using Fusarium pallidoroseum.
57. The largest producer of silk in the world is China.
58. The control of the Colorado potato beetle using Paris Green in 1867 was the first historically recorded success story in the application of modern plant protection chemicals.
59. The biological control of Fusarium wilt of chickpea is achieved by using fluorescent Pseudomonas (bacteria).
60. The controlling center of the cell is the nucleus.
61. Conventional tillage involves minimum tillage, zero tillage, and conservation tillage.
62. The bacteria responsible for the conversion of NH4 to NO2 in soil is Nitrosomonas.
63. The conversion of soil nitrate into gaseous nitrogen is known as denitrification.
64. Cool season crops prefer a temperature range of 14.5°C to 32°C.
65. The cooperative movement (1904) was initiated by F. Nicholson.
66. The state which is the leading producer of Muga silk is Assam.
67. Copper Arsenate is otherwise known as Paris Green.
68. The condition of the atmosphere inside the crops is called phytoclimate.
69. Conferences, panels, symposiums, discussions, meetings, workshops, field trips, and tours come under group contact.
70. Confounding design is adopted when the number of treatments is 10.
71. The infestation of Okra leaf roller (Sylepta derogata) scrapes the chlorophyll content, feeds inside, causes defoliation, and rolls the leaves in Bhindi.
72. Conservation tillage tends to encourage a higher microbial population.
73. Contaf is the trade name of Hexaconazole (5% EC).
74. Continued drought conditions in rice fields predispose the infestation by paddy mealy bug (Ripersia oryzae).
75. Continuous inbreeding (selfing) leads to homozygosity.
76. Continuous temperature is recorded by a thermograph.
77. Contour bunding is adopted where land slope is 6% and in areas where average annual rainfall is less than 600 mm.
78. In honey bees, the pollen basket is present in the hind leg.
79. The Community Development Project (CDP) was started on 2nd Oct, 1952.
80. Composite varieties of maize include Jawahar, Vikram, Kishan, Ambar, Sona, and Vijay.
81. Composite variety is developed by cross-pollination.
82. The concentration of a nutrient in plant tissue where growth of the plant is slowed down is called critical concentration.
83. The normal concentration of Bordeaux mixture is 1% (1:1:100).
84. The concentration of Bordeaux paste is 10% (1:1:10).
85. The concept of “essentiality of elements” was proposed in 1939 by Arnon and Stout.
86. The concept of lawn was developed in England.
87. The concept of pure line was given by Johnson.
88. The concept of the Village Level Worker was related to the Sri Niketan program (Rabindranath Tagore).
89. The condition and behavior of the atmosphere at a given time and place is called weather.
90. The condition of the atmosphere when the temperature falls quickly below zero degrees is called frost.
91. The commercial propagation method of sapota is inarching.
92. The commercially cultivated cultivar of oil palm is Tenera.
93. The commercial formulation of the acaricide Teradifon is Teedion.
94. The common causing agent of damping-off is Pythium.
95. The common herbicide used in rice crop fields is Anilophos and Butachlor.
96. The common herbicide used to control weeds in wheat is 2, 4-D.
97. The common household sugar is sucrose.
98. Common varieties of urdbean include Pant U-30, JU-2, Type-9, Barkha, and Gwalior-2.
99. The commonly followed soil particle classification in India is by the International Society of Soil Science (ISSS).
100. The commonly used method for the transfer of disease resistance from one variety to another is the backcross method.