agriculture MCQs – Page 41

Practise multiple-choice questions from agriculture for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

agriculture Mcqs

1. soil science 2. agronomy 3. entomology 4. water management 5. horticulture 6. agricultural economics 7. plant pathology 8. food technology 9. animal husbandry 10. plant breeding and genetics

801. The process of converting food nutrients to carbohydrates in plants is called________________?
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A. Absorption

B. Photosynthesis

C. Assimilation

D. Metabolism

802. Soil reaction of preference of sugarcane is________________?
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A. 7.03 pH

B. 6.5 pH

C. 8.00 pH

D. 6.00 pH

803. Theoretical velocity of the jet at Vena Contracta is determined by ________________?
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A. 2g (h)1/2

B. 2(gh)1/2

C. 2gh

D. (2 gh)1/2

804. When crop plants adopt to a new environment are called___________________?
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A. Accaumatization

B. Domestication

C. Introduction

D. Selection

805. Torsional force does not act on ____________________?
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A. Liquids

B. Soil

C. Steel

D. Wood

806. Major source of sugar in world is_________________?
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A. Sugarcane

B. Dates

C. Beet root

D. Water melon

807. The total dissolved solids in drinking water should not exceed_________________?
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A. 1000 mg/litre

B. 1300 mg/litre

C. 1200 mg/litre

D. 1500 mg/litre

808. The living together of two or more species in a prolonged and intimate ecological relationship is called________________?
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A. Biosystem

B. Symbiosis

C. Auto environment

D. Climate

809. Now- a -days the hydraulic structures are designed. Keeping in view the flow net, this was given by __________________?
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A. Lane

B. Khosla

C. Blight

D. Darcy

810. The percentage of the volume of water filled in voids to the total volume of solids of soil grains is called__________________?
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A. Degree of compaction

B. Volume of saturation

C. Degree of saturation

D. Void ratio

811. The piles driven in low bearing capacity soil which does not rest on hard rock but bears the coming load due to side resistance is called ________________?
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A. Cost-in situ piles

B. Frictional pile

C. All are correct

D. Load Bearing

812. The soil which are formed due to the weathering effects particularly by movement of water and are high permeable are called _________________?
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A. Semi-impervious soils

B. Alluvial soils

C. Non-alluvial soils

D. Impervious soils

813. When the air in a atmosphere is fully saturated with the vapours present in it, then the pressure exerted by such wet air mass will be called ____________________?
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A. Atmospheric pressure

B. Vapour pressure

C. Partial pressure

D. Saturation pressure

814. Prescribed germination percentage of foundation seed of ground nut is_________________?
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A. 90

B. 85

C. 70

D. 20

815. Effects of allelopathic compound in the life cycle of plants cause inhibition of________________?
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A. non of these

B. seed germination

C. Seed deterioration

D. Seed swelling

816. The season that starts from 1st April and end on 30th September and run for 183 days is called _____________________?
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A. Rabi season

B. Kharif season

C. Rice season

D. Cotton season

817. Water logging and soil salinization is a twin menace which has effected the agriculture sector severely, about _______________ hectares of land are wasted yearly?
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A. 45,000

B. 40,000

C. 30,000

D. 35,000

818. Number of irrigation required for cotton crop are______________?
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A. 5 irrigations

B. 8 irrigations

C. 6 irrigations

819. The harmful influence of one living plant on another living plant by the secretion of a toxic substance is called________________?
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A. Allergy

B. Antagorusm

C. Parasitism

D. Allelopathy

820. Critical factors for crop production is________________?
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A. fertilizer

B. Land

C. Pure seed

D. Water

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