Agronomy Quiz for IBPS SO Mains, FREE PDF & Live Quiz

1. For determining the water requirement of a crop, the drum culture technique is used mainly for which crop?

2. What is the unit of crop water use efficiency (WUE)?

3. ‘Pusa Jai Kisan’ is a high-yielding variety of which crop?

4. In Maharashtra and Karnataka, sugarcane planted in October-November and harvested after about 14-16 months is known as:

5. Which implement is used to establish nursery-raised rice seedlings in puddled soil?

6. The success and wide adoption of zero tillage has been made possible mainly because of:

7. An extreme form of minimum tillage in which primary tillage is completely avoided and secondary tillage is restricted to the seedbed/row zone only is called:

8. The oil content of groundnut kernels is generally in the range of:

9. To promote balanced fertilizer use, the Government of India replaced the 50 kg urea bag with a bag of:

10. The ‘Norin 10’ source of dwarfing genes (Rht1, Rht2) is associated with which crop?

11. A hand refractometer is used in the field to judge sugarcane maturity. At full maturity, the ratio of top-cane brix to bottom-cane brix approaches:

12. Which branch of meteorology deals with weather forecasting for crop production, tillage operations and animal husbandry?

13. The ratio of the actual amount of water vapour in the air to the maximum it can hold at that temperature, expressed as a percentage, is called:

14. Leaf Area Index (LAI) of a crop canopy can be estimated non-destructively using a:

15. In wheat, the single most critical stage at which irrigation must not be missed is:

16. In maize, the stage most sensitive to moisture stress is:

17. Compared with surface irrigation, drip irrigation raises water use efficiency mainly by:

18. Which of the following is NOT a device for measuring discharge in an open channel?

19. The FAO Penman-Monteith method for estimating reference evapotranspiration () requires which set of inputs?

20. If 100 ha-cm of water is delivered to a field and 70 ha-cm is stored in the root zone, the water application efficiency is: