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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (MCQ)

Agriculture, along with fisheries and forestry, accounts for --of
1.
the nation's GDP and is its single largest contributor.
One-third [b] Two-third
[c] Half [d] None

constitute --of the total exports of the

2. Agricultural exports a

country.
[a] 2nd [b] 3rd
[d] 4th
Sth
3.
3. NDDB Means

[a] Daily Development Board

National

National Dairy Development Board

[c] Dairy Developing Board
National
Board
[d] National Development Dairy
- i s the largest producer of the
4. With an annual output of 130 MT,
milk in the world.
[b] China
India
[d] None
[c] Japan
record food grain production of
5. In 2013-14 India achieved a
4b 264 MT
[a] 254 MT
Td] 274 MT
[c] 269MT

6. DES means
Economics and Statistics
ta Department of
and Statistics
b] Department of Ecology
and Statistics
Department of Ergonomics
C
[d] None
7. is the backbone
of Indian economy?
Which sector

[a] Service Sector

[b] Financial Sector

[c] Tourism Sector

d Agriculture Sector
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8. Who announced the introduction of National Food Security Act?

a Pranab Mukherjee
b] Manmohan Singh
c] P. Chidambaram
d] Arun Jaitley

9. When was NFSM launched?

[a] Mid of 9th Five-Year Plan
[b] End of 10th Five-Year Plan
[c] Mid of 11th Five-Year Plan

d] End of 11th Five-Year Plan

10. Who announced the launch of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana?
[a] Narendra Modi
b1 Dr. Manmohan Singh
c] Atal Bihari Vajpayee

d] L.K.Gujral
11. Which among the following does not belong to welfare schemes for
the farmers?
[a] Kisan credit card Scheme
[b] SHG Bank Linkage Programme
[c] National Agricultural Insurance Scheme
d Employee Referral Scheme

12. When did the Government present Kisan credit card Scheme?
lal April 1853 FbtAugust 1998
Ic] July 1991 d] November 1995

13. When was On Farm Water Management Scheme launched?

la] July 2000
b March 2002
[c] March 2004
[d] January 2004
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14. When was Micro Irrigation launched?

[a) March 2002
b] March 2004
[c] January 2004
anuary 2006
15. The Blue Revolution is related with?
AFish production
b] Food grain production
[c] Oilseed production
[d] Milk production

16. Indian agriculture is typically characterized as?

[a] Land surplus, labour scare economy
b] Land surplus, lablour surplus economy
eLand scare, labour surplus economy
[d] Land scare, labour scare economy

17. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan has distinguished himself in which of the

following fields?
a] Nuclear Physics
F61Agriculture
c] Astrophysics
[d] Medicine

18. The Green Revolution in India was the outcome of the efforts of
who amongst the following?
FaT M.S. Swaminathan
[b] C. Rangrajan
[c] K.V. Kamath

[d] Rakesh Mohan

19. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development

(NABAR[D] was established in the year?

[a] 1970 b] 1975

[c] 1977 d] 1980

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20. The head office of the NABARD is located in?

al Lucknow [b] Hyderabad
[c] New Delhi Mumbai
21. Where is the Central Rice Research Institute located?
[a] Bangaluru [b] Kanpur
[c) Coimbatore tdj Cuttack

22. NABARD was established in the?

[a] Fourth Five Year plan
[b] Fifth Five Year plan
e Sixth Five Year plan
d] Eighth Five Year plan

23. Who is known as Father of White Revolution in India?

[a] M.S. Swaminathan by V. Kurien
[c] K.N. Bahal Id] B.P. Pal

24. Which is the highest food grain producing Indian state, as per
2013-14?
a] Madhya Pradesh b] Punjab
e Uttar Pradesh [d] Maharashtra

25. Which is the highest coarse cereal producing Indian state, as per
2013-14?
[a] Karnataka b] Maharashtra
[c] Rajasthan ley Uttar Pradesh
26. Which Indian state has the largest area irrigated by water tanks, as
per 2010?
[a] Andhra Pradesh

[b] Karnataka
e Tamil Nadu
d Uttar Pradesh

27. Which is the biggest milk plant in India?

[al Verka milk plant

bj Mother Dairy
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[c] Burnett Dairy

[d] Lorenae Dairy

Which of the following is a human made input of agriculture?

28.
al Relief of the land
6] Irigation Facilities
c] Earthworms

Id] Crops

29. Which is also known as golden fiber?

[al Cotton [b] Wheat

[c] Silk Jute

world
30. The two most important staple food crops of the are

n and
(al Ragi & Bajra
[b] Tea & Coffee

e Rice & Wheat

[d] Millets & Maize

over a
31. It is also known as "Monoculture", i.e. single crop grown

large area.
[a] Commercial Grain Farming
byPlantation Farming8
Ic] Multiple Farming
[d] Mixed Farming
three crops of s******escee re
Bengal and Orissa,
.

32. In Assam, West

grown in a year known
as "Aus, Aman and Boro".
[b] Wheat
lay Paddy d] Maize
c] Pulses
33. Which one is not a millet crop?
[a] Jowar b] Ragi
to Wheat [d] Bajra
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34. The word "Agriculture" has been derived from two

Words.
[a] German [b] American
d] Arabic
CT Latin
35. Cultivation of grapes is also known as .
[b] Horticulture
a Viticulture
[c] Sericulture d] Pisciculture

36. The term white revolution refers to the

[a] Increased production of food grains

bI Increased production of Milk

[c] Increased production of Eggs

d Increased production of Fish

37. Who was the father of Operation Flood?
[al Dr. Norman Borlaug
[b] Dr. M.S. Swaminathan

e Dr. Verghese Kurien

[d] Dr. William Gande

38. Which state is the biggest tea producer in the country ?

[a] Andhra Pradesh b] Sikkim
¢] Assam d] West Bengal

39. Which is not a Kharif Crop ?

[a] Jowar [b] Maize
[c] Groundnut 4d Wheat
40. When community development programme (CDP) started ?
f a ] 1952 [b] 1953
[c] 1954 d] 1955

41. Green Revolution started i

[a] 1964-65 b] 1965-66
c 1966-67 [d] 1967-68
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42. White revolution is associated with

[a] Milk [b] Milk products
c] Both d] None

43. The gene revolution is the application of - in food production.

[aBio-technology [b] Technology

c] Both d] None

44. The information revolution began with the invention of the

la Integrated circuit [b] Computers
c] Both Id] None

45. The information revolution started around

[a] 1000 BC [b] 2000 BC

leT 3000 BC [d] 4000 BC

46. The information revolution started around 3000 BC with the

pictographs.
ta Sumerian [b] American
[c] Indian d] Chinese

47. The WwW means

[a] Work Wide Web F World Wide Web
[c] World Wide Webbing [d] None

48.
48. Internet works on
Taj Packet switching
[b] Circuit switching
[c) Both a and b

[d] None of these

49. Which one of the following is not an application layer protocol used
in internet?

[a] Remote procedure call

[b] Internet relay chat

c] Resource reservation protocol

[d] None of these

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[b] Digital Network Architecture

[c] Boroughs Network Architecture
[d] Distributed Network Architecture

58. Which is the lowest layer of TCP/IP model:

[a] Host to Host Layer
b Network Access Layers
[c] Internet Layer

[d] Application Layer

The most method for gaining access to the Internet is
59. common
through a

[a] Dumb terminal

[b] Virtual provider or computer

[c] Point-to-point computer

dJProvider or host computer

60. The term ISP refers to

[a] Internal software protocol
[b] International shareware pool
ICJ Internet service provider
[d] Interface standard protocol
called
The extensions -gov, .edu, mil, and .net
are
61.
[a DNSs
[b] E-mail targets
Domain codes

[d] Mail to addresses

62. URL is an acronym for

Resource Locator
fa Uniform
[b] Uniform Resource Link

Ic] Universal Reference Locator

[d] Unlimited Real-time Language

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63. When surfing the Web, the browser interprets the HTML command
found in a document file, and displays it as a(n)
al Applet page [b] Java page
e Web page [d] domain page
64. HTML is an acronym for
[al Hyperlink Markup Language
FbT Hypertext Markup Language
[c] Hypertext Markup Link
[d] Hypetext Moderm Language

65. Connections to other documents or to other locations within a Web

site are
[a] filters [bHhyperlinks
c] plug-ins [d] bots

66. Hyperlinks in a Web document typically appear as

[a] Bolded and underlined
[b] Italicized and underlined
eUnderlined and colored
[d] Bolded and italicized

67. Applets are typically written in a programming language called

lal XML [b] Basic
[c] Pascal1 La Java
68. Which of the following are not required in order to send and
receive e-mail?
[al E-mail account
bT Web page
[c] Access to the Internet
[d] E-mail program

69. Which of the following is not one of the basic elements of an e-mail
message?
[a] Hader b] Footer
[c] Message [d] Signature
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70. An Internet standard for

transferring files is known as
[a] IRC
[b Telnct
Tet FTP [d] WAIS

71. A(n) can be used to block access to specific sites.

a Filter [b] Hardware block
c] Censor [d] Rubicon
72. Which of the following is a non-renewable resource?
a Coal [b] Forests
[c] Water [d] Wildlife

73. Which among the following is not a renewable source of energy?

[a] Solar energy

bBiomass energy
[c] Hydro-power
[d] Geothermal energy

74. Identify the non-renewable energy resource from the following:

[b] Fuel cells
a Coal
[C] Wind power [d] Wave power

75. Which of the following is a disadvantage of most of the renewable

energy sources?

[a) Highly polluting

[b] High waste disposal cost

ef Unreliable supply
d] High running cost

Photovoltaic energy is the conversion of sunlight into:

76.
e Chemical energy
[b] Biogas
JoÉlectricity
[d] Geothermal energy
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77. Which among the following is not an adverse environmental impact

of tidal power generation?
la] Interference with spawing and migration of fish
[b) Polution and health hazard in the estuary due to blockage of flow of
polluted water into the sea

lc) Navigational hazard

d None of these
78.
78. A fuel cell, in order to produce electricity, burns:

[a] Helium [b] Nitrogen

efHydrogen [d] None of these

79 Fuel cells are:

[a] Carbon cell FbfHydrogen battery
[c] Nuclear cell [d] Chromium cell

80. A module is a:
al Series-arrangement of solar cells
[b] Parallel arrangement of solar cells
I Series-parallel arrangement of solar cells
[d] None of these

81. The efficiency of solar cells is about:

[a] 25% Fbt 15%
[c] 40% d] 60%

82. Which of the following area is preferred for solar power plants:
[a] Coastal areas
Fb Hot arid zones
c] Mountain tops
[d) High rainfall zones

83. Which power plant is free from environmental pollution problems ?

[a] Thermal power plant

[b] Nuclear power plant

tel Hydro-power plant
d] Geothermal energy power plant
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84. Climate Change is primarily caused by the building up of - i n the

atmosphere.
fa Green House Gases b] Co2
c] Nitrozen [d] None

85. The global increase of methane and nitrous oxidde are primarily due
to
tá] Agriculture [b] Industries
[c] Soil erosion [d] None

86. Global Warming is a specific example of the broader termn

at Climate Change
[b] Environment Change
[c] Health Change
[d] None of these

of the air near

87. The observed increase in the average temperature
decades
earth's surface and oceans in recent
[a] Environment Change

bGlobal Warming
[c] Health Change

[d] None of these

of wind power was in

88. The first known use

[b] 4000 BC Jof 5000 BC [d] 3000 BC

[a] 6000 BC
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Answer:
5. b 6. a 7. d
3. b 4. a
1. a 2. c
13. b 14. d
11. d 12. b
9. d 10. b
8. a 21. d
19. d 20. d
17. b 18. a
15. a 16. c
27. b 28. b
25. d 26. c
23. b 24. c
22. c
33. c 34. c 35. a
31. b 32. a
29. d 30. c
40. a 41. c 42. C
37. c 38. 39. d
36. b
48. a 49. c
45. C 46. a 47. b
43. a 44. a
54. d 55. c 56. b
51. d 52. c 53. c
50. a
61. c 62. a 63. c
58. b 59. d 60. c
57. a
68. b 69. b 70. c
64. b 65. b 66. C 67. d
74. a 75. c 76. a 77. d
71. a 72. a 73. b
81. b 82. b 83. c 84. a
78. C 79. b 80. C
85. a 86. a 87. b 88. C
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