Agronomy JRF Questions
Agronomy JRF Questions
ICAR Exams
| Questions | Answers | |
| 1 | Tungro disease developed in which crop? | Rice |
| 2 | Noble cane known as? | Saccharum officinarum |
| 3 | Beushening use on? | Rice for weed control |
| 4 | Indirect method of soil moist? | Nuclear method |
| 5 |
Word “Ideotype” given by? |
Donald (1968) |
| 6 |
Which type instrument is not Zero tilled conservation tillage? |
Rotavator |
| 7 |
None selective herbicides is? |
Paraquate & Glyphosate |
| 8 |
The ratio of the amount of visible light reflected by a body to the amount incident upon it? |
Albedo |
| 9 | “Inverse Yiold-Nitrogen law” given by? | Wilcox (1929) |
| 10 | Field WUE? | 1/WR |
| 11 |
Formula of Irrigation requirement? |
IR=WR-(ER+S) |
| 12 | Mentha spp. is a? | Medical & aromatic crop |
| 13 | Sugar yield from juice is? | 6-10% |
| 14 |
Family of jute is? |
Tillaceae |
| 15 | Rancidity in sunflower oil to? | Oxidation |
| 16 | Nutrient mobility concept was given by? | Bray |
| 17 | Evapo-transpiration measured by? | Lysimeter |
| 18 |
Centre head quarter of medium Range weather forecasting? |
New Delhi |
| 19 | Lathyrus in rice is a example of which cropping system? | Pairs/ Utera crops |
| 20 | Protein content in groundnut is? | 26% |
| 21 | Hulling percent in rice is? | 66% |
| 22 | Triticum diccocum is known as? | Emmer wheat |
| 23 | Water requirement of wheat is? | 650-800 mm |
| 24 |
Dwarfing gene for wheat? |
Norin-10 |
| 25 | Two rowed barley is? | Hordeum irregular |
| 26 |
The gene responsible to high quality maize production? |
Opaque-2 |
| 27 | Dwarf wheat introduced by? | Dr. Ν.Ε. Boarlog |
| 28 | Asthama” disease caused by which weed? | Ambrosia & Franseria |
| 29 | PAR (photosynthetic active radiation) range? | 400-700 μm |
| 30 | Fiber of linseed is known a? | Flax |
| 31 | Mustard have toxic substance? | Erucic acid |
| 32 | Temp. require for crop? | Base temperature |
| 33 | Highest photo-respiration have in? | C3 plants |
| 34 | Protein synthesis at cytoplasm? | Lysosomes |
| 35 | Highest water holding capacity which soil? | Clayey soils |
| 36 | Butachlor use in rice? | Post emergence |
| 37 | Herbicide efficiency increase by? | Safeners |
| 38 | B content in normal water? | <3 PPM |
| 39 |
C4 pathway known as? |
Hatch & slack pathway |
| 40 | Flared squares (flare-up) is the related crop? | Cotton |
| 41 | Khaira disease in dice due to? | Zn deficiency |
Agronomy JRF Questions
| Questions | Answers | |
| 1 | p Inherent capacity of soil is called? | Soil fertility |
| 2 | By USDA clay size is? | > 0.002 mm |
| 3 | A farming system in which arable crops are grown in alleys formed by trees and shrubs? | Alley cropping |
| 4 | Seeding or planting of succeeding crop after flowering and before the harvesting of standing crop? | Relay cropping |
| 5 |
Flue cures Virginia related to? |
Cigarette tobacco |
| 6 | The system of growing crops together of different heights at the same time on the same piece of land? | Multi storied cropping system |
| 7 | Quantity required as herbicide of quizolfop-p ethyl (g/ha)? | 100 |
| 8 | Bread wheat is a? | Hexaploid |
| 9 |
Aflatoxin disease in groundnut caused by? |
Aspergillus flavus |
| 10 | Least green house effect is? | N2O= 5-7% |
| 11 | Soybeam have poisonous chemicals? | Goitrogen |
| 12 |
Per capita availability of arable land? |
0.15 ha. |
| 13 | De-suckering & Topping process related? | Cotton |
| 14 | Which element deficient in higher pH? | Zn & Mn |
| 15 |
Rotational cropping intensity is 150% than which growing ? |
Sugarcane-wheat |
| 16 | Local Control use as the experimental field are divided in homogerious blocks for? | Reduce errors |
| 17 | Scientist Established boron essentially? | K Waringtone |
| 18 | Molybdenum determined by method of? | Colorimetric method |
| 19 |
Acid soil management is done by? |
Lime |
| 20 | Highest PUFA have recorded with? | Safflower with linolice acid |
| 21 | Lines of equal sunshine duration? | Isohels |
| 22 | Length of medium range weather forecasting is? | 3-10 days |
| 23 | Family of sesame? | Pedaliaceae |
| 24 | New/latest name of moong? | Vigna radiata |
| 25 |
Progeny of foundation seed is? |
Certified seed |
| 26 |
Essential Nutrient on the requirement of various crops given by |
Arnon(1939) |
| 27 | CO2 content in atmosphere is? | 0.03% |
| 28 | Azolla is a? | Water ferm |
| 29 | Number of essential Amino acid? | 20 |
| 30 | Precipitation are denotes by equal lines known as | Isohyets |
| 31 | Crops highly resistant to salinity : | Barley |
| 32 |
If P,Os are fixed in the soil than the application methods choose. |
Drill below seed |
| 33 | H.Q. of ICRISAT? | Hyderabad |
| 34 | Highest height have which clouds? | Cirrus |
| 35 | Highest area of which crop in India | rice |
| 36 |
If two irrigation available to wheat by farmer’s at which critical stage |
CRI & Flowering |
| 37 |
H.Q. of international center for Research in Agro-forestry? |
Nairboi |
| 38 | Recent “terminator technology” adopted in which crop | Wheat |
| 39 | Which crop is not known as “pulses” | Custer bean |
| 40 | Optimum moisture content for safe storage of peanut | <8% |
| 41 | Which method help to farmer’s for irrigation of all crops. at | Critical stages |
| 42 | Fiber related process | Retting |
| 43 | Father of “Pot culture method”. | Mitscherlich |
| 44 | Topping is related to Remove auxiliary buds in. | Tobacco |
| 45 | Golden Rice have highest | Vitamin A |
Agronomy JRF Questions
| Questions | Answers | |
| 1 | The variety of mustard have good oilseed character? | Rohini |
| 2 | Soil carried in a Saltation particles ranging in diameter from? | 0.1 to 0.5 mm |
| 3 |
The growth retardant type antitranspirent? |
Cycocel |
| 4 | Removal of soil particles due to rain drops is called as? | Splash Erosion |
| 5 | “Aridity Index” given by. | Thornthwaite |
| 6 | The crop having highest requirement of K? | Potato |
| 7 |
Mixed cropping given by? |
La-Flitze |
| 8 | The stomatal closure hype antitranspirent? | PMA |
| 9 | Element role in resistant to disease, insect & lodging ? | K |
| 10 | Role of which substance in minimize transpiration? | PMA |
| 11 | Cercals are mostly deficient to? | Lycine |
| 12 | Pedology given by? | V.V. Dokuchaev |
| 13 |
The cultivation of crops along the contour of a slope? |
Countor cropping |
| 14 | One ha Rice transplanting by nursery area is? |
1000 M2 |
| 15 |
Responsible bacteria for conversion of NO2, to NO3, by? |
Nitrosomonus |
| 16 | Blind hoeing practiced in? | Sugarcane |
| 17 | Termite survive in high performance in which type soils? | Moist and dry sandy |
| 18 | (NH4)2SO4 apply in groundnut because is supply N with? | S |
| 19 | Adiabatic lapse rate is? | 10°C/km |
| 20 | Conversion of ammonia into NO3, is called? | Nitrification |
| 21 | Soil bacteria, Fungi, algae & actinomycetes are belongs Which soil organisms groups? | Microflora |
| 22 |
India is the second country after china to have commercialized the technology of? |
Hybrid rice |
| 23 | Cereals are deficient in which amino acids? | Lysine |
| 24 | Fundamental soil formation process is? | Humification |
| 25 |
Water content have highest which type fraction of soil at F.C. is? |
Loamy |
| 26 | If, water column height is 1000 cm than the pF value is? | 3 |
| 27 | Calculate the plant population, if RxR 30 cm and PxP 10 cm? | 3,33,333 |
| 28 | Optimum depth of puddling in rice is? | 5-7 cm |
| 29 | National Biodiversity Board is situated at? | New Delhi |
| 30 | The growing of plants in salt water are known as? | Halophytes |
| 31 | S content in S.S.P? | 12%S |
| 32 | Leading state for cotton production? | Gujarat |
| 33 |
Annual rainfall in India? |
1195 mm |
| 34 | Crop canopy temperature is measured by? | Info-red thermometer |
| 35 | According to agro ecological zones are divided into? | 8 Zones |
| 36 |
A weed which is an undesirable, troublesome and difficult to control is called? |
Noxious weed |
| 37 | Optimum plant population for sorghum? | 175,000 |
| 38 | The amount of water vapour present in a unit volume of air? | Absolute humidity |
| 39 | Cuscuta is a type of? | Parasite weed |
| 40 | Dodder weed is a parasite weed of? | Lucerne |
| 41 | Unit of PAR is? | Einstein |
| 42 | MDI in dry areas like arid is greater than? | -66.6 |
| 43 | If more than 2.5 mm rains come out during 24 hours called? | Rainy day |
| 44 |
To maintain ecological balance and safely utilize the environment is refers? |
Sustainable agriculture |
Agronomy JRF Questions
| Crops | Main Disease |
| Chickpea | Ascochyta blight |
| Sugarcane | Red Rot |
| Wheat | Stem rust |
| Rice | Brown spot |
| Groundnut | Collar rot |
| Terms | Related to |
| Seed cotton | Seed with lint |
| Cotton Seed | Without lint of seed |
| Ginning % | Lint recovery |
| Lint index | percent of lint |
| crops | Critical Stages |
| Cotton | Boll development |
| Sugarcane | Formatting stage |
| Groundnut | Flowering to pegging |
| Maize | Silking, Tasseling |
| Chickpea & Arhar | Pre-flowering & Pod developmt |
| Scientists | Given word/Terms |
|
Benda |
Mitochondria |
| Flamin | Mitosis |
| Mendel | Genetics |
| Water requirement (in mm) | Crops |
| 560 | Wheat |
| 561 | Checkpea |
| 700 | cotton |
| <500 | Sorghum |
| 562 | Sugarcane |
| Instrument | Measures / determined |
| Barometer | Atmosphere pressure |
| Hydrometer | Relative density of liquids |
| Altimeter | Height measures |
| Albedometer | Reflective radiant measure |
| Hygrometer | Relative humidity |
| Crops | Origin / Native place |
| Potato | Peru, Lima |
| Mustard | China |
| Finger millet | India |
| Sugarcane | Brazil |
| Sorghum/Bajra | West Africa |
|
crops |
State of higher productivity |
| Potato | U.P |
| Castor | Gujrat |
| Tobacco | Andhra Pradesh |
| Tea | Assam |
| Coffee | Karnataka |
| Coase millet | Botanicals Name |
| Finger millet (Ragi) | Eleusine coracana |
| Foxtail | Setaria italica |
| Branyard millet(Sawan) | Echinochioa frumnetacea |
| Kodo | Pasdpulum scrobiculatum |
| Cheena | Panicum miliaceaum |
Agronomy JRF Questions
| Institute | Head Quarter |
| CRRI | Cuttak |
| CRIDSA | Hyderabad |
| CPRI | Shimla |
| CRIJAF | Barrackpore |
| CIAE | Bhopal |
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