Agronomy MCQ Question and Answer | Agriculture MCQ Question

Sorghum belongs to the grass family Poeceae and is categorized as major millet. It is available in 25 different species, some of them are grown for human consumption but some are grown to feed animals also.

The highest production of mustard in India is contributed by Rajasthan. It alone contributes about 40% approximately $${\frac{1}{3}^{{\text{rd}}}}$$ of the total mustard production of the country. The soil and climatic conditions of Rajasthan favor the maximum production of the mustard crop.

JNKVV stands for Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, which was established on 1^st October 1964. It is located in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh and was inaugurated by Smt. Indira Gandhi. This university is serving 25 cities of Madhya Pradesh through ample agricultural, horticultural and animal husbandry colleges. Its mission is to conduct education, research and extension activities for enhancing the productivity and sustainability of agricultural production and the quality of rural livelihood in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

Potato is the tuber and food crop grown in subtropical regions of our country. Irrigation is the most important process in any crop production. In the case of potatoes, it is quite critical at the stage of tuber initiation to its maturity at the same time it also depends upon variety, seed health, weather, soil and cultural practices used for irrigation.

Green manure is a crop specifically produced to be incorporated into the soil while still green. The primary goal is to add organic matter to the soil for its benefits and the most likely used crops are legumes which add nitrogen to the soil. Aeschynomene afraspera is an annual to perennial plant that can grow 1 - 3 meters tall with stems that can become somewhat woody and persist.

Allophane is amorphous to poorly crystalline hydrous aluminum silicate mineraloids. Its chemical formula is Al₂O₃·(SiO₂)_1.3-2·(H₂O)_2.5-3 . It is produced by weathering or hydrothermal alteration of volcanic glass or feldspars. It has a large negative charge, which is balanced by aluminium cation.

NBSSLP stands for National bureau of soil survey and Land use planning. Government of India established All India Soil Survey Organisation in 1956 with Headquarters at IARI, Nagpur with five regional soil correlation centers. Later in 1958, the land use planning Scheme was also integrated with it. In 1976 it became an independent institute of ICAR named NBSS & LUP and continued to function at IARI, New Delhi. But later in June 1978, the headquarters was shifted back to Nagpur.

All the Indian research journals of agricultural sciences are published by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Journals are devoted to experimental agriculture and are abstracted by all the major abstracting services. Nowadays with the advancement of technology, e-journals and online articles are also been published.

Absolute zero is the lowest temperature i.e. lowest limit of the thermodynamic temperature scale, can be said as a state at which the enthalpy and entropy of a cooled ideal gas reach their minimum value, taken as zero Kelvin, and can be represented as -273.15 degrees in Celsius.

Gram is the crop of rabbi season. It does not require stagnant water in any case and time while timely and well-managed irrigation is required for gram. First of all, irrigate immediately after sowing then on the 3^rd day followed by repetitive irrigation after 7 - 10 days depending upon soil and climatic conditions while irrigation before flowering and during the pod formation stage is the most critical and highly recommended stage when irrigation in grams is must.