FCI Agriculture Quiz 16 |

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Q1. AGMARK established in the year

1906
1948
1949
1937
None of these

Explanation:- The AGMARK is legally enforced in India by the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act of 1937.

Q2. The demand of agricultural products in general is

More elastics
Inelastic
Relatively inelastic
A and C both
None of these

Explanation:- Demand for most farm products is inelastic. People can consume only so much then they are satiated. Even if price drops they will not buy much more.

Q3. At present, the farming system of India has become

Need oriented
Family oriented
Supply oriented
Market oriented
None of these

Explanation:- Agriculture is the biggest industry in the country and plays a key role in the socio-economic growth of the country. India is the second-largest producer of wheat, rice, cotton, sugarcane, silk, groundnuts, and dozens more.

Q4. The apex body of institution finance for agriculture in India is

RBI
SIDBI
NABARD
FCI
None of these

Explanation:- It is an apex institution which has power to deal with all matters concerning policy, planning as well as operations in giving credit for agriculture and other economic activities in the rural areas.

Q5. The national centre for agricultural economics and policy research (NAIP) is located at

Jaipur
Lucknow
Mumbai
New Delhi
None of these

Explanation:- National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP) is a research company based out of Library Avenue, New Delhi, Delhi, India.

Q6. Crop faming and Milk production is an example of

Complementary enterprise
Dominant enterprise
Relative enterprise
Mixed enterprise
None of these

Explanation:- A complementary enterprise is one that increases its output while at the same time increases the output of another enterprise within the same farming system.

Q7. The term Bonsai tree means

It is an art of training plants into different shape.
When shrubs are planted on boundary
Japanese art of growing miniature trees and shrubs by extreme dwarfing
When low growing perennial plants grown on the border.
None of these

Explanation:- A tree or shrub that has been dwarfed, as by pruning the roots and pinching, and is grown in a pot or other container and trained to produce a desired shape or effect.

Q8. What is Ley crop?

These crops are nourished other crops by providing shade and acting as climbing sticks
These crops are grown along farm road and fence.
These crops are grown mainly to cover the soil
Such crops are grown for grazing or harvesting for immediate or future feeding to livestock.
None of these

Explanation:- This is a crop rotation system in which a grass-legume mixture is grown in rotation with agricultural crops.

Q9. Crop lodging means