NABARD Agriculture
and Rural India MCQ’s (Set – 3)
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exam is approaching, you need to be very focused on practice more and more
questions to maximize your score. The Agriculture and Rural India Section
carries 40 marks. For the clear idea of NABARD Prelims Exam, go through
this NABARD Agriculture and Rural India MCQ’s daily.
1. Krishi Vigyan
Kendras (KVKs) is a powerful tool developed by the Government of India through
Indian Council of Agricultural Research to transform agriculture and provide
farmers support with a multidisciplinary approach. Which of the following is
not a salient feature of KVK?
a) On farm
testing.
b) Funding
for medicinal crops cultivation.
c) Capacity
development of farmers.
d) Technology
assessment.
e) Transforming
rural India.
2. Which of the
following is not a portals developed by Department of Agriculture and
Cooperation (DAC) for implementing major agricultural extension programmes?
a) ATMA
b) RKVY
c) NFSM
d) APY
e) None of
the above
Answer: D)
Explanation: ATMA, RKVY,
NFSM are portals developed by DAC with its Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) interventions under the National Mission on Agricultural
Extension and Technology (NMAET) to guide and implement various agricultural
extension programmes. ATMA stands for Agricultural Technology Management
Agency, RKVY is Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana and NFSM is National Food
Security Mission. Some other important portals developed by DAC are SEEDNET,
DACNET, AGMARKNET, NHM and INTRADAC.
3. Lyophilized or
freeze - dried lentogenic vaccines like La Sota and B1 vaccine suitable for
primary vaccination are used to vaccinate ________.
a) Mahseer
fish
b) Human
beings
c) Brahman
cattle breed
d) Birds
e) Guinea
pig
Answer: D)
Explanation: La Sota and
B1 vaccine strains are live vaccines cultivated in Specific - Pathogen Free
(SPF) chicken embryos. They are used to treat diseases like Newcastle disease,
Ranikhet disease that affects birds. These strains are lentogenic in nature
with characteristics of low virulence and low mortality. These are usually
administered intraocularly, intranasally, through drinking water, or by spray
administration.
4. Hinny, a domestic
equine hybrid, an offspring of a male stallion and female jenny, and a
reciprocal cross to the common mule, is a product of
a) Interspecific
hybridization
b) Intervarietal
hybridization
c) Introgressive
hybridization
d) Backcrossing
e) None of
these
Answer: A)
Explanation: Interspecific
hybridization, also called as intra - generic hybridization, produces hybrids
by intercrossing two species from the same genus. Hinny is an inter - specific
hybrid produced by crossing a male horse × female donkey both belonging to the
same genus Equus. It has a body of a donkey and extremities of a horse. Other
examples of inter - specific hybrids are mule (male horse × female donkey both
from Equus genus), liger (male lion × female tiger both from Panther genus).
5. Acarapiosis is a
respiratory disease caused in adult honey bee, Apis mellifera and in other Apis
species. Name the tarsonemid mite that causes this disease?
a) Acarapis
dorsalis
b) Acarapis
vagans
c) Acarapis
woodis
d) Acrapis
externus
e) None of
these
Answer: C)
Explanation: Acarapis
woodi is a microscopic internal parasite which belongs to the Arachnida class
and Tarsonemidae family that infects bees’ trachea and causes Acarapisosis.
This mite reproduces inside the breathing tubes of the honey bee and feed on
its hemolymph. Hence, its infection causes mechanical injury and physiological
disorder due to obstruction of air ducts, lesions in the tracheal walls, and
the depletion of hemolymph.
6. Find the series
with odd group.
a) Hallikar,
Amritmahal, Khillari, Bargur
b) Ongole,
Kangrej, Deoni, Krishna Valley
c) Guernsey,
Red Dane, Ayrshire, Jersey
d) Jaffrabadi,
Surti, Murrah, Mehsana
e) Gir,
Sahiwal, Red Sindhi, Tharparkar
Answer: D)
Explanation: From
option (a) Hallikar, Amritmahal, Khillari, Bargur belong to indigenous draught
breeds of cattle.
From
option (b) Ongole, Kangrej, Deoni, Krishna Valley belong to indigenous dual -
purpose breeds of cattle.
From
option (b) Guernsey, Red Dane, Ayrshire, Jersey belong to exotic dairy breeds
of cattle.
From
option (d) Jaffrabadi, Surti, Murrah, Mehsana belong to indigenous buffalo
breed.
From
option (e) Gir, Sahiwal, Red Sindhi, Tharparkar belong to milch breeds of
cattle.
All
are cattle breeds except option (d), thus option (d) is the correct answer.
7. The process of long
- term storage of carbon in plants, soil, water sources, and other geologic
formations is called ________.
a) Carbon
footprint
b) Carbon
dioxide sinks
c) Carbon
sequestration
d) Carbon
assimilation
e) Carbon
carousel
Answer: C)
Explanation: Carbon
sequestration (by both natural and artificial methods) is a process by which
carbon dioxide is removed from the earth’s atmosphere and stored in liquid or
solid form. For example, capturing of carbon emitted from industries before it
is released into the atmosphere. One natural way of carbon sequestration occurs
through photosynthesis in plants. The main purpose of carbon sequestration is
to delay global warming and avoid extreme climate change.
8. GC - MS that is
best suited for the identification of low levels of hydrocarbons stands for-
a) Gas
Chromatography - Mass Spectrograph
b) Gaseous
Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry
c) Gas
Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry
d) Gas
Chromatoscopic - Mass Spectroscopy
e) Gas
Chromatophores - Mass Spectrograph
Answer: C)
Explanation: Gas
Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry is the most suitable instrumental technique
for monitoring and analyzing aromatic hydrocarbons and various other air
pollutants like volatile pesticides, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen.
The gas chromatograph in conjunction with a mass spectrometer is suitable for
identification of low levels of hydrocarbons.
9. Which principle
supports the working of X - ray Computed Tomography (CT)?
a) Beer -
Lambert’s law
b) Law of X
ray diffraction
c) Law of
conservation of energy
d) Third
law of thermodynamics
e) Law of X
ray absorption
Answer: A)
Explanation: X-ray
Computed Tomography (CT) is a technique for visualizing interior features
within solid objects. Tomographic imaging consists of directing X-rays at an
object from multiple orientations and measuring the decrease in intensity along
a series of linear paths and that decrease is based on the Beer-Lambert law
which describes intensity reduction as a function of X-ray energy, path length,
and material linear attenuation coefficient.
10. Name the
hydrologic process by which groundwater level is augmented artificially by
increasing the natural percolation of surface water into groundwater aquifers
resulting in increase in groundwater availability.
a) Rainwater
harvesting
b) Artificial
recharge
c) Groundwater
harvesting
d) Drip
irrigation
e) None of
the above
Answer: B)
Explanation: Artificial
recharge of groundwater is a systematic, human activity to increase the amount
of groundwater available through designed works which enhances percolation of
surface waters into the groundwater aquifers resulting in availability of more
ground waters. This process is done to replenish the reduced groundwater
available due to rapid urbanization and cutting of trees.
