General agriculture pointer - 90

 

1.  The Rain Fed Area Development Programme (RADP) started on March 20, 2008.
2. 'Ragi' is otherwise known as finger millet.
3. Raiffeisen and Schulze-Delitzch types of cooperatives are considered pioneer cooperatives of Germany.
4. Pyrite (FeS2) is used to reclaim saline soils.
5. Quality Protein Maize (QPM) varieties include Sakti, Shaktiman 1 & 2, HQPM.
6. QPM varieties were released using Opaqua-2 genes.
7. The quantity of lime required to neutralize soil acidity depends on both active and reserve acidity.
8. The quantity of water or irrigation required for coconut in loamy soil is 1300 L.
9. Quarantine laws come under legal control.
10. Queen Elizabeth is a variety of floribunda rose.
11. White grubs prefer to lay eggs in sandy and sandy loam soils.
12. The queen of cereals is maize.
13. The queen of bulbous flowers is gladiolus.
14. The queen of fodder is lucerne.
15. Soil particles with a diameter of less than 0.001 mm have colloidal properties.
16. The queen of nuts is the peanut.
17. The term “colloids” was given by Grahm in 1861.
18. Ratanjot and Karanj are biofuel plants.
19. Ratna is a cross of Neelam × Alphonso.
20. Ratol is a rodenticide.
21. Ratoon cropping is widely practiced in sugarcane.
22. RBD is also called one-way elimination of heterogeneity design/two-way classification of ANOVA.
23. RBI was established and nationalized on April 1, 1935, and January 1, 1949.
24. The recommended NPK dose for oats is 80:30:20 kg/ha.
25. Red bore is a pest of cocoa.
26. The red pigment in litchi is due to anthocyanin.
27. Red pumpkin beetle and Epilachna beetle are pests of cucurbits.
28. Red revolution is related to meat/tomato production.
29. Red rot disease of sugarcane is caused by Colletotrichum falcatum.
30. Cabbage is highly sensitive to boron toxicity (<0.33 ppm).
31. Red rust of tea is caused by algae.
32. Rainfall is observed at the agromet observatory at 8:30 AM and 14 IST.
33. Rain is precipitated from nimbus clouds.
34. Rainbow revolution is related to agriculture (1996).
35. Rainfall is measured by a rain gauge.
36. Crop geometry refers to the shape of space available for individual plants.
37. The ideal NPK ratio for pulses should be 1:2:1.
38. Raising forests on public or community land is known as community forestry.
39. Rajphos contains 18-20% phosphorus.
40. Rambutan belongs to the family Sapindaceae.
41. Ranikhet disease in poultry is caused by a virus.
42. Ranikhet disease of poultry is also known as Newcastle disease.
43. RAPD denotes Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA.
44. The Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) was launched in August 2007.
45. Regulatory proteins include insulin.
46. The relationship between AM, median, and mode in asymmetrical distribution is Mode = 3 Median – 2 Mean.
47. Fruit cracking in pomegranate is due to deficiency of Ca, B, and K.
48. Soil texture refers to the relative proportion of soil particles in a soil mass.
49. Removal of any excess or undesirable/unproductive branches, shoots, or parts of plants is called pruning.
50. Removal of the male bud after the completion of the female phase is known as denavelling.
51. Removal of moisture from food materials for preservation is called dehydration.
52. Keeping vegetables in boiling water for 2-5 minutes followed by cooling is known as blanching.
53. Removal of soil particles due to raindrops (through bouncing) is called splash erosion.
54. Removal of the entire tassel (male inflorescence of maize) from the plant before pollen to initiate cross hybridization is called detasseling.
55. Removal of undesired suckers, done once in 45 days of planting, is called desuckering.
56. Red soil is red due to ferric oxides.
57. Red Spanish is a variety of pineapple.
58. Red spider mite is a pest of tapioca.
59. Red stripe of sugarcane is caused by Pseudomonas rubrilinus.
60.  The discovery of mitochondria is attributed to Albert von Kölliker (1857).
61. The dry adiabatic lapse rate in the troposphere is 6.5°C/km.
62. The earliest rust to appear on wheat in India is brown/orange/leaf rust.
63. The elements that provide basic structure are C, H, O.
64. The energy exchange elements are H, O.
65. The Father of food preservation is Nicolas Appert.
66. The father of hybrid cotton is C.T. Patel.
67. The father of modern pedology is Vasily Dokuchaev.
68. The father of natural farming is Masanobu Fukuoka.
69. The father of soil erosion is H.H. Bennett.
70. The feel method is the common field method for determining soil texture.
71. The first exclusive meteorological satellite was built by ISRO.
72. The first Fisheries University was CIFE, Mumbai.
73. The first hybrid of rice was developed by Y.L. Ping (China).
74. The first hybrid variety of tobacco in India is GTH-1.
75. The first recipient of the World Food Prize (created by Norman Borlaug) is Dr. M.S. Swaminathan (1987).
76. The first scientist to classify the climate was De Condole (1900).
77. The first transgenic plant was developed by Fraley (1983) in tobacco.
78. The first watering is known as kor watering.
79. The fundamental unit of a chromosome is chromatin.
80. The guava variety known as Sardar is Lucknow-49.
81. The hard fruits of citrus are attributed to boron deficiency.
82. The highest consumption of herbicides in the world is in Japan (5 kg/ha).
83. The highest contribution to vegetable oil comes from groundnut.
84. The highly mobile nutrients in plants are N, P, and K.
85. The immobile nutrients in plants are Ca and B.
86. The inflorescence of cabbage is known as a cattkin.
87. The inflorescence of cauliflower is known as a cyme.
88. The Intensive Agriculture District Programme (1960) is called the Package programme.
89. The international pest is Schistocerca gregaria.
90. The irrigation method with the highest efficiency is the drip method.
91. The laws of heredity were first discovered by Mendel.
92. The longest mitotic phase is prophase.
93. The mango variety known as ‘the king of mangoes’ is Alphonso.
94. The mango variety known as ‘the queen of mangoes’ is Kesar.
95. The most deficient micronutrient in India is zinc (Zn).
96. The most deficient micronutrient in Indo-Gangetic alluvium soils is zinc.
97. The most mutation-tolerant crops are polyploids.
98. The most prominent soil group of India is alluvial soil.
99. The most widely used additive for correcting soil acidity is lime.
100. The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) was established in 1976.