100 Important agriculture question part



501. the automatic method of surface irrigation is - Coblegation  

502. leading state in drip irrigation in India is - Maharashtra  

503. Soil moisture is measured by - Tension meter 

504. Water requirement of irrigation wetland rice is about -1500MM 

505. total water requirement of sugarcane crop is 200-300 cm 

506. in saline soil , the method for irrigation used s - flood method 

507. pF value was first introduced by- Schofield  

508. vertical movement of water in soil is known as – Percolation 

509. ET are measured by – Lysimeter 

510. parsall flume is used for measurement of - water Flow  

511. Sericulture is also known as -Silk Farming  

512. the rearing of silkworms for the production of raw silk is known as – Sericulture 

513. How much silkworms are required to produce 1kg of silk 5500 

514. How much people are engaged in various sericulture activities in the country - 60 lakh 

515. Central Sericulture research & Training Institute is situated at - Mysore , Karnataka 

516. Sericulture has been practiced for at least 5000 years in china  

517. Apiculture is also known as  bee keeping  

518. Apiculture word was taken from - Latin world  

519. A location where bees are kept is called An Apiary  

520. A beekeeper is also known as - Apiarist  

521. A beekeeper bee in order to - Collect honey , bee wax,  to pollinate crops , to produce bees for sale 

522. What is beekeeping - I is maintenance of honey bee colonies , commonly in hives , by humans  

523. the two economically important products of bee keeping is  Honey and wax 

524. average yield of Indian bee is - 6-8 Kg /Cony / year  

525. The main freshwater fish are - Cop and catfish  

526. the main brackish - water fish are - Hilsa and mullet  

527. central Institute of marine Fisheries Research was established - Kochi , kerla  

528. The central inland fisheries Institute was established at - Barrack pure (W.B) 

529. The central institute of fisheries technology was est. at - Wwellindon Island near Kochi , Kerala 

530. Hydroponics’ is also known as - Soil less culture 

531. The Method of growing plants using minerals nutrients solutions , in water, without soil is called - hydroponics  

532. In 1699  john Woodward published his water culture experiment with the crop of – Spearmint 

533. Hydroponics traditionally known as - solution culture  

534. First time who promoted that solution culture can be used for agriculture crop production - Prof. William Frederich Gericks , University of California at Berkeley in 1929 

535. The term Aquaculture for hydroponics was used for the first time by Prof. William F.G. 

536. The Mutant Varity of rice is - Jagannath  

537. The Pecursor of vitamin - A is - Bita carotene 

538. Azolla is a - a uatic fern  

539. The Blur revolution in India was started during - fifth five year plan (1970) 

540. Evergreen revolution is related to - Sustainable crop Production   

541. Precision Farming is also known as - Site specific  management  

542. SRI technique Was developed in – Madagascar 

543. The term synecology was given by - Schroter & Kirchner (1902) 

544. Pusa Mukta is the cultivar of Cabbage  

545. World’s super rice variety , which is suitable for saline / Alkaline soil conditions is –Lunishree 

546. NRCMAP is currently est. at- An and (Gujarat) 

547. IPR stands for - intellectual Property Right  

548. Beaufort Scale is used t measure - WIND pressure / strength 

549. What is dioeciously ? Those plants which contain on male and female flowers  

550. The element that play an important male and female protoplasm constituent is – calcium 551. Wheat is a C3 plant  

552. The plant parasite nematode was first time reported by -Kanche  

553. Mean ,Median and Mode is equal in - Normal distribution  

554. The inflorescence of jowar is called – Panicle 

555. Gromer , SCU and CDU are the - Slow release fertilizers 

556. Low of tolerance was introduced by - SHELFORD  

557. End product of glycolysis is – Pyruvate 

558. define lithophytes - The plant grown is rock cervices are called lithophytes 

559. During glycolysis , the Net gain of ATP is - 2  

560. Phosphorus is extracted by - Olsen method  

561. The correlation between price and demand of a commodity is –negative 

562. The limit of partial correlation coefficient is - -1 to +1  

563. For reclamation of saline and Alkaline soils used are - Gypsum and Pyrite  

564. The term ecosystem was coined by - A.G.Tansley (1935) 

565. What is parthenocarpy - The development of fruit without fertilization  

566. The development of embryo without fertilization is called - Apomixes  

567. Relative humidity is measured by- Pshychrometer 

568. Father of Indian pale botany is - Birbal sahni 

569. The weed used for ornamental purpose is- Lantana Camaera 

570. The core component of chlorophyll is – Mg 

571. The soybean is sown at the depth of - 3 cm 

572. The most prominent soil of India is - Alluvial soil  

573. Chaisma is seen during - Diplotene sub - Phase  

574. The current method used for control of bollworm in cotton is -  Bt. transgenic cotton produced  

575. Photo- Respiration occurs in – Chloroplast 

576. Water use efficiency is highest in which plants - CAM Plants  

577. Chromosomal theory of inheritance was proposed by- Sutton & Boveri 

578. The price fixed by govt. is called - minimum support price 

579. The present farming system of India has become - Market oriented  

580. Which chemical is mostly used for breaking tuber dormancy in potato-thiourea 

581. The term water harvesting was first time used by - Mayers  

582. The first commercial hybrid cotton of the world is - Hybrid -4  

583. International Day for biological diversity - 22 May 

584. Measuring of heights one by – Clinometer 

585. The number of electrons for convertion of No3 to NH4-16 

586. Bangalore is also known as Garden city 

587. origin of potato is from - Peru (S. America) 

588. Dormancy breaking hormone is – cytokinin 

589. the element involved in energy transfer and storage in plants is - Phosphorus  

590. Fruit ripening hormone is – Ethylene 

591. which is the antidote of insect  poisoning -Atropine  

592. Minimum support price is formulated by- CACP(total 28 crops) 

593. Luxury consumption or maximum uptake nutrient is- K 

594. Crop canopy temperature is measured by - Infra red thermometer 

595. Secondary Plant nutrients are- Ca, Mg, & S 

596. hulling %age in rice is - 65 % 

597. First agriculture chemist of Imperial Agricultural Research Station was  

598. Which method of s.cane sowing prevents the lodging - Trench method  

599. Inflorescence of sugarcane is called – Arrow 

600. Shedding of plants part is due to - ABA hormone