TRAINING OF TRAINERS(TOT) ON MODERNIZED PRODUCTION

OF HIGH QUALITY INBRED RICE AND SEEDS

PRE-TEST

I. Please answer the following questions briefly. (25pts)

1. What are the advantages of using high-quality seeds? (4pts)

2. What are the bases in choosing the appropriate variety to plant?

(5pts)

3. What are the different ways to maintain quality and purity of a

seed? (4pts)
4. How will you determine if the seedbed and field are ready for
sowing and transplanting? (5pts)

5. How can you produce healthy and sufficient number of healthy

seedlings? (3pts)

6. Why do we need to drain the irrigation water in the rice field two
weeks before the harvest? (2pts)

7. Give 2 advantages of a well leveled field. (2pts)

II. Supply the needed information. (60pts)

1. The sample submitted physical purity test is divided into

component parts. Enumerate these component parts. (4pts)

2. Enumerate at least (3) characteristics of an ideal seed bed site?

(3pts)

3. Depth of irrigation water (cm) required in the following stages of

the rice plant.: (3pts)
a. Tillering stage:
b. Flowering stage:
c. Maturity:

4. Name (2) major insect pest and (2) major rice diseases and provide
the best management option/s except chemical application. (8pts)

Insect Pest Management Option

 Diseases

5. Enumerate the seed classes, maximum allowable off-types (in

500g) per seed class, and the color of the tags. (12pts)

Seed Class Allowable off-types (per Color of tag

500g)

6. Enumerate the factors affecting seed deterioration. (3pts)

7. Name atleast five (5) qualities of a good facilitator. (5pts)

8. Enumerate the 4 Principles of PalayCheck System (4pts)

9. List three Growth Phases of the rice plant.(3pts)

10. Enumerate the five (5) C’s of borrowing. (5pts)

11. Enumerate at least two (2) uses of farm palnts. (2pts)

 12. Give atleast three (3) characteristics of an adult learner.(3pts)

13. Give at least three (3) principles Farmers Field School (FFS). 5pts

III. Multiple Choice : Encircle the letter of the best answer. (30pts)

1. Which of the following factors should be considered in fertilizer

application?
a. Effect, attention, type
b. Element, action, timing
c. Timing, element, a,mount
d. Amount, timing, maturity

2. When is the right time to harvest?

a. When leaves turn yellow
b. 40 days after heading
c. When 85-90% of grains are golden yellow
d. 90 days after transplanting

3. What is the importance of controlling irrigation during tillering?

a. To facilitate continuous decomposition of rice straw
b. To produce heavier grains
c. To promote tillering and root development
d. Both a and b
4. What is the recommended moisture content (MC) of rice grains for
storage?
a. 13-14%
b. 15-16%
c. 17-18%
d. Depends on weather condition

5. It is a way of understanding interactions of the different factors in

the field, which are dfirectly and indirectly affecting the growth
and development of the rice plant and putting together what we are
studying and placing into a process useful for decision making.
a. Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
b. Agro-Ecosystem Analysis (AESA)
c. PalayCheckSystem
d. All of the above
6. Which of the following statements about IPM is false?
a. Indiscriminate use of pesticides can disrupt the natural balance
between insect pest and beneficial organisms
b. All insects are pests
c. A typical rice field support 800 species of friendly or beneficial
insects
d. Presence of non-rice habitats around the field provide alternate
food and shelter for beneficial organisms
7. The following are purpose of tillage, except:
a. Destroys the weeds
b. Manages soil water
c. Destroys insects, their eggs, larvae, and breeding places
d. For application of fertilizer

8. What are the two types of Tillage?

a. Primary tillage and zero tillage
b. Secondart tillage and zero tillage
c. Primary tillage and secondary tillage
d. None of the above

9. The following are tillage implements, excepts

 a. Cultivator
b. Spike tooth harrow
c. Rotavator
d. Fertilizer applicator

10. What is the recommended air temperature for drying inbred rice
seeds?
a. 43°C or less
b. 44°C
c. 45°C
d. 46°C or higher

11. In PalayCheckSystem , which is considered as output?

a. Grain yield
b. 3-5cm water every irrigation time
c. Seed of recommended variety
d. Field with no high and low soil spots
12. The following are reasons why Philippines is not a rice sufficient except
a. Fast increasing population
b. Lesser land suitable for rice production
c. High price of farm inputs
d. lesser water resources for irrigation

13. the following are factors that affects plant or crop establishment except:
a. quality of seeds
b. environment in which seed is place
c. the system of seeding used
d. none of the above

14. the following are methods of seeding preparation for transplanter except:
a. Mechanical seed sowing machine
b. Manual seeder
c. Double Mulching Technique

15. number of days of seedlings ready to transplant using a mechanical rice

transplanter.
a. 5-9 days
b. 10-19 days
 c. 20-29 days
d. 1 month

16. Name the following (2 points each)

17. Name the following (2 points each)

*Capacity of rice transplanters

18. Riding type transplanter
a. 1-2 ha/day
b. 2-3 ha/day
c. 3-4 ha/days
d. None of the above

19. walk behind transplanter

a. 1-1.5 ha/day
b. 1.5-2 ha/day
c. 2-2.5 ha/day
d. None of the above
20. Distance between rows using mechanical rice transplanter.
a. 10cm
b. 20cm
c. 30cm
d. 40cm

21. What is the field capacity of the rice reaper?

a. 0.5 ha/day
b. 1 ha/day
c. 1.5 ha/day
d. 2 ha/day

22. What is the field capacity of combine harvester?

a. 1-2 ha/day
b. 2-3 ha/day
c. 3-4 ha/day
d. 4-5 ha/day

23. Which of the following are the benefits from drying?

a. Increase the quality of seeds
b. Store seeds from short to long period of time
c. Reducing quantity and quality loses
d. None of the above

24. Milling is the process of separating the mature rice grains from the rice
panicles or straw.
a. True
b. False

25. It is the condition or state of the grain where there is no exchange of

moisture between the grain and its surrounding air.
a. Relative Humidity
b. Ambient Temperature
c. Equilibrium Moisture Content
d. None of the above

26. Which of the following is not a benefit of practicing synchronous planting

after a rest period?
a. improves fertilizer efficiency
b. allows decomposition of stubbles and rice straw
 c. destroys disease hosts
d. breaks pest cycle

27. What are the main parts of mechanical dryer?

a. Blower
b. Burner
c. Bin
d. All of the above

28. Storage is the process of keeping commodities in a storage structure

designed to protect the stored product from inclement weather and pests for a
short or a long period of time to wait processing or movement to other location.
a. True
b. False

IV. Identification. Identify the Following parts of a rice flower. (15 points)
V. Definition. Define the following: (10 points)
1. PalayChck System

2. Seed dormancy

3. Roguing

4. Genetic Purity
5. Physical Purity

VI. Problem Solving (10 points)

1. Mang Juan harvested 2,400 kg palay with 19% moisture content (MC)
from his 4,000m2 field. What is his yield (kg/ha) at 14% MC. (5pts)

2. Danny applied 2 bags 14-14-14, 2 bags 46-0-0 and 0.5 bag 0-0-60 to his
0.5 ha PalayCheck field. How much N-P2Os-K2O did he apply in kg/ha?
(5pts)