Agronomy JRF Questions (One Liner)

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 Agronomy JRF Questions

Agronomy JRF Questions

Agronomy JRF Questions

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  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

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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

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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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4 thoughts on “Agronomy JRF Questions (One Liner)”

    • The notes and question paper pattern are extremely good. but,some questions are wrong (No. Of essential amino acids are 10 and father of pot culture technique is Arthur Young).

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