Agriculture MCQ Set 2

Question 1. Which fruit is not Tropical?

(A) Cashewnut

(B) Apple

(C) Coconut

(D) Walnut

Question 2. Large amount of labour is applied on small-sized holdings under the system of________.

(A) Commercial Horticulture

(B) Commercial Farming

(C) Oriental Farming

(D) Mediterranean Farming

Question 3. A cropping system where crops are grown in the inter spaces between rows of planted trees is called_________.

(A) Alley cropping

(B) Inter-cropping

(C) Mixed cropping

(D) Relay cropping

Question 4. ‘Monoculture’ is a distinct characteristic of

(A) Organic farming

(B) Subsistence farming

(C) Shifting cultivation

(D) Commercial grain-farming

Question 5. Which one of the following is not a type of shifting cultivation?

(A) Fazenda

(B) Milpa

(C) Fang

(D) Jhooming

Question 6. ‘Taungya’ agriculture is practised in

(A) Philippines

(B) New Zealand

(C) Japan

(D) Myanmar

Question 7. Azolla-Anabaena Bio-fertilizer is used for crop________.

(A) Cotton

(B) Mustard

(C) Rice

(D) Wheat

Question 8.Which one of the following is used as a bio-fertilizer?

(A) Potassium

(B) Urea

(C) Azolla

(D) Neem

Question 9. Blue Green Algae is used as biofertilizer to induce which of the following crop production?

(A) Mustard

(B) Gram

(C) Rice

(D) Wheat

Question 10. ‘Alfalfa’ is________.

(A) A town

(B) An animal

(C) A tribe

(D) A kind of grass

Question 11. What is Podzol?

(A) Soil found in Coniferous forest region

(B) Very fertile alluvial soil

(C) Soil of arid region

(D) None of the above

Question 12. ‘Mocha’ coffee is grown in________.

(A) Yemen

(B) Argentina

(C) Brazil

(D) Iraq

Question 13. Which one of the following is not found in Tea?

(A) Morphine

(B) Tannin

(C) Caffeine

(D) Theanine

Question 14. Which one of the following is not a correct statement?

(A) Sugarcane is the major plantation crop of Malaysia

(B) Sri Lanka is famous for the production of tea

(C) Coffee is an important plantation crop of Brazil

(D) Cocoa cultivation is popular in Ghana

Question 15. Heroin is obtained from

(A) Betel nut

(B) Tobacco

(C) Opium

(D) Hemp

Question 16. In which of the following group of countries maize is used as staple food? 

(A) South-East Asia

(B) Middle Africa

(C) Russia

(D) Western Europe

Question 17. Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley, renowned for vitreous and citrus fruit production in America, is located at__________.

(A) Columbia

(B) Mexico

(C) Alaska

(D) California

Question 18. In which one of the following countries high yielding variety seed were developed for the first time?

(A) India

(B) Mexico

(C) China

(D) Argentina

Question 19. Wood of which tree is used for catechu production? 

(A) Saaja

(B) Babool

(C) Khair

(D) Saal

Question 20. Peanuts are the main crop of_______.

(A) Guatemala

(B) Ghana

(C) Gambia

(D) Georgia

Question 21. The leading producer of milk in the world is________.

(A) Australia

(B) USA

(C) India

(D) China

Question 22. Which of the following has destroyed the image of ‘beef’ as a safe and healthy food in Europe and America? 

(A) Poultry practices

(B) Methods used in Pig farming

(C) Mad cow disease

(D) Bird flu disease

Question 23. Which one amongst the following has the largest livestock population in the world?

(A) USA

(B) India

(C) China

(D) Brazil

Question 24. What is the rank of India in silk production in the world?

(A) Fourth

(B) Third

(C) Second

(D) First

Question 25.Which of the following is nor correctly matched?

(A) Fruit – Pomology Cultivation

(B) Vegetable – Horticulture Cultivation

(C) Crops – Agronomy Cultivation

(D) Flower’s – Floriculture Cultivation

Question 26. Viticulture is known for the production of_______.

(A) Saffron

(B) Apple

(C) Grapes

(D) Orange

Question 27. Apiculture is the scientific method related to the production of_______.

(A) Lac

(B) Apple

(C) Silk

(D) Honey

Question 28. Shahtoosh shawl is made from the hairs of______.

(A) Merino

(B) Chiru

(C) Chinkara

(D) Hangul

Question 29. Most attractive, warmest and lightest wool of the world ‘Shahtoosh’ is produced in_________.

(A) Bangladesh

(B) China

(C) Uzbekistan

(D) Nepal

Question 30. The native place of groundnut is________.

(A) South Africa

(B) China

(C) Brazil

(D) Australia