IMP Questions For JRF-Agronomy
1.A very broad term encompassing all aspects of crop production, livestock farming, fisheries, forestry etc.
Ans.Agriculture
2.‘Agriculture’ word is
Ans.Latin word (agri+culture)
3.A branch of agricultural science which deals with principles and practices of soil, water and crop management.
Ans.Agronomy
4.“Agronomy” word is ?
Ans.Greek (agros+nomos)
5.Crops cultivated on ploughed land?
Ans.Arable crops
6.Crops grown to supplement the yield of the main crops?
Ans.Augment Crops
7.Two major commercial crops are
Ans.(i) Cotton (ii) Sugarcane
Imp Questions For JRF-Agronomy
8.A close-growing crop, grown primarily to improve and protect the soil from erosion through their ground covering foliage and/or rootmats between periods of regular crop production?
Ans.Cover Crops
9.When both main and intercrop is benefited to each other?
Ans.Complementary Crops
10.The crops leave the field exhaustive after growing?
Ans.Exhaustive Crops
11.Any crop or combination of crops is grown for grazing or harvesting for immediate or future feeding to livestock?
Ans.Ley Crops
12.Such crops are grown to conserve the soil moisture through their ground covering foliage?
Ans.Mulch Crops
13.Such cops are neither complementary nor competitive?
Ans.Supplementary Crops
IMP Questions For JRF-Agronomy
14.Cereals are botanically Ans.Caryopsis Quest.The more nutrient exhaustive family is Ans.Poaceae (Graminae)
15.The non-conventional oilseed crop is
Ans.Sunflower
16.The non-edible oilseed crops are
Ans.Castor and Linseed
17.The Indian originated field crops are
Ans.Arhar, Mung, Urd, Cotton, Jute, Kodo, Kutki, Oat etc.
18.Kharif crops are
Ans.Short day plants
19.Rabi crops are
Ans.Long day plants
20.Day neutral Plants are
Ans.Cotton, maize, sunflower, safflower, groundnut, buck wheat, tomato.
21.Optimum time of sowing for Kharif crop
Ans.June-July
22.Optimum time for Rabi crop
Ans.4th week of October to 1st week of November
33.Optimum depth of sowing for most of field crops
Ans.3-5 cm
