General agriculture pointer - 78

 

1. Udabatta disease of rice is due to -- Ephelis oryzae  
2. Ring rust of Aonla is caused by - Ravenellia emblica var. fructoidae 
3. Flag smut of wheat is caused by - Urocystis gramines 
4. Leaf curl disease of tobacco is caused by virus and it is transmitted by - White fly  
5. Leaf blight of cotton is caused by - Alternaria macrospora 
6. father of nematology – Bastian 
7. Father of Microbiology - Louis Pasteur  
8. Bacterium was discovered by – Antony van leewenhock  
9. fungicide used in the control of smut is – Vitavax 
10. father of modern Plant pathology is - Anton de Berry 
11. bordeaux mixture was developed by - P.M.A. Millardet 
12. Common nematicides are - DD Mixture , Phorate , Etylene bromide , etc. 
13. Central Plant protection training institute is situated at - Hyderabad ( AP) 
14. first plant protection adviser to govt. of India - H.S. Pruthvi. 
15. integrated pest control term was coined by - Bartlett ( 1956) 
16. The Term “ Pest Management “ was given by - Geier (1970) 
17. The blood colour of insects is - Green with yellow 
18. Honeybees belongs to the order of – Hymenoptera 
19. Entomology word was taken from - Greek language                               
20. Father of Insect Physiology is – Wiggelworth 
21. The first pesticide was discovered by -Millardet-(1882) 
22. DDT was discovered by - Zedler scientist  
23. First insecticide discovered was – DDT 
24. Plant protection and  quarantine Act was pased in the year of – 1912 
25. insecticide act was passed in 1968 
26. destructive insect and Pest Act was passed in – 1914 
27. Maximum %age of insecticide is used in which crop - Cotton (54 %) 
28. “Warfarin “ is a rodenticide  
29. Contact insecticides are - DDT, Malathian , Aldicarb , Monocrotophos , Aldrin , etc. 
30. Bio pesticides are - NPV, GV, Bacillus thuringiensis etc. 
31. Pest population should be kept below the - Economic Threshold level 
32. Very safest insecticidede for honeybee – Endosulphon 
33. Rat poison is known as - Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) 
34. Lead arsenate was first used in 1832 by Moulton
35. Overhead cost is known as - Fixed cost 
36. Price theory is a branch of - Mico- Economices  
37. Average cost is equal to - Total cost / Output
38. Land rent is an example of fixed cost 
39. prime cost is also known as - Variable cost
40.  opportunity coast is also known as - alternative cost
41.  The father of economics is - Adam Smith 
42. Diminishing return is also known as - Law of variable 
43. The most effective way to overcome the defects of agricultural marketing is - Regulating marketing 
44. The law of variable proportion is generally referred to as the - law of diminishing return production is a function of - Factors  
45. AGMARK act was enforced in a year – 1937 
46. In mixed farming , the contribution of livestock to gross farm income is at least  
47. Input -Output relationship is also known as - production function  
48. Those product , in which two product produced together are called - joint product 
49.  Dumping activity is seen under - monopoly  
50. Export - Import bank of India was set up on - 1st January , 1982 
51. IRDP was stared in the year of - 2 Oct , 1980 
52. When marginal production is zero , then total production is – maximum 
53. KVK is also known as - Farm science centre  
54. KVK was stared in the year 1974
55. Operational Research Project was stared in the year 1974-75 
56.  Lab to land programme was stared in the year - 1979 June 1 
57.  National agri. technology project was stared in the year  1998-99  
58. KVK was recommended by- Mohan Singh Mehta Committee (1974) 
59. Community Development Project was stared on – 1952 
60. National Extension Service (NES) was stared in the year of 1953 
61. Firka Development Scheme was launched under the guidance of National Commission of Agriculture was set up by government of India – 1970  
62. HYVP was started in the year of 1966
63. Marthendam programme was started by - Dr. Spencer Hatch in 1921 
64. etawah Pilot project was started by - Mr.Albert Mayer in Sep 1948 
65. Indian village Service was started in 1945 by - Mr. Arther T. Mosher and Shri BN gupta  
66. The aim of Etowah Pilot project is - Introducing intensive work on the Rural reconstruction front 
67. Intensive Agriculture District programme was popularly known as - Package programme 
68. IRDP was lunched on - 2 oct 1980
69. National Agricultural Research project was launched in - Jan, 1979 
70. T&V system was evolved in - 1973 by Israeli expert Daniel Benor At Turkey 
71. Training of Rural Youth for Self Employment ( TRYSEM) in 1979
72. Total number of KVK operating in the country till  Dec 2011 – 600 
73. Antuadya Yojana was started in 2 oct 1977 
74. Sampoorna Grammeen Rojgar Yojna was started in the year of 2001 
75. FCI was started in 1970  
76. FISCAL commission was appointed in 1949 
77. Multiple Cropping Programming was Started in 1966 
78. First irrigation commission was appointed in 1901  
79. First deptt. of agriculture was established in 1881 
80. The extension work must be based on the - Need and interest of people 
81. Father of Extension- J Paul Leagons 
82. Father of Sociology- August Commte 
83. National agricultural innovation project was started in – 2005 
84. Total number of national bureaux are – six 
85. Formula of coefficient of variance is - SD/Mean *100 
86. t test is generally used , when sample size is < 30 
87. The correlation coefficient lies between - -1 to + 1 
88. The experimental design ,which simultaneously control the variation in two directions is known as LSD 
89. The basic principles of field experimentation - 1 Replication 2 Randomized 3 Local control
90.  The technique of analysis of variance was developed by - R.A. Fisher 
91.  If fertility gradient of land is in two directions , the experimental design will be - Latin Square design 
92.  the most commonly used measure of control tendency is - Arithmetic mean  
93. Cumulative frequency is also known as – Ogive 
94. The term ’ Kurtosis ’ was given by - Karl Pearon (1906) 
95. Laplace used the normal distribution in - Analysis of errors of experiments 
96. the important method of least squares was introduced by - Legendre in 1805 
97. The name “ Normal distribution “ was coined independently by - Peirce Galton and Lexix ,  (1875) 
98. Normal distribution is also known as - Law of error ,law of facility of error, lapace’s seconf law , gaussian law etc. 
99. Generalize mean is also known as - Power mean or Holder mean
100.  The standard deviation is widely used measure of - Variability or disperson