Agronomy MCQ Question and Answer | Agriculture MCQ Question

The first agriculture university of India is located at Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. The name of the university is G. B. Pant University of Agriculture. It was inaugurated by Jawahar Lal Nehru on 17^th November 1960 as the “Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University”. The university is regarded as the Harbinger of the Green Revolution in India. The campus at Pantnagar is spread over an area of 12,661 acre which makes it the second largest university in the world.

Moth bean (Vigna acontifolia) is a drought-resistant legume, commonly grown in arid regions of India. The Moth bean is a creeping annual herbaceous plant that grows to approximately 40 cm high belonging to the family Fabaceae.
Because of its drought resistant qualities, its ability to combat soil erosion, and its high protein content it is identified as a significant food source.
Area and production of moth bean have been highest in Rajasthan. It is 96.75% and 94.49% respectively.

Brassica Juncea is a variety of mustard seeds, commonly known as Brown mustard, Chinese mustard, Indian Mustard, etc.
It is an amphidiploid with a chromosome number of 18. It evolved after hybridization between B. nigra (n = 8) and B. compestris (n = 10). The type of hybridization is natural interspecific hybridization.

Donald Forsa Jones was a maize scientist and practical corn breeder at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven introduced the technique of production of double cross hybrid maize.
Double cross hybrid is the type of hybrid that is produced when two different single-cross hybrids are cross-pollinated.

Out of the given options. Maximum edible oil in India is contributed by Groundnut.
The total consumption of groundnut oil across India from the financial year 2021, is 1,170 thousand metric tons. Gujarat is the largest groundnut oil-producing state accounting for 40% of total groundnut produced in the country.

Although plants respire and produce oxygen (O₂) then also the percentage of available oxygen gas is not found abundantly in the greenhouse.
Levels of 8mg/l of oxygen are considered to be good for greenhouse production.
Whereas CO₂, NH₄ and N₂O are available in abundance in the greenhouse.

The inflorescence is the arrangement of the flowers on the plant and refers to the flower head of a plant including stems, stalks, bracts and flowers.
The inflorescence of rice is a Panicle spikelet. the type of inflorescence is racemose type in Rice in which the flowers are borne on short stalks of about equal length at equal distances along an elongated axis and open in succession toward the apex.

The process of formation of nitrogen and nitrous oxide gases from ammonical fertilizers in the soil is known as Denitrification.
It is a microbially facilitated process where nitrate is reduced and ultimately produces molecular nitrogen through a series of intermediate gaseous nitrogen oxide products.

Canola is a variety of rapeseed, which is a part of the mustard family i.e. Brassicaceae (Cruciferae).
Canola oil is low in erucic acid, as opposed to colza oil. There are both edible and industrial forms produced from the seed of any of several cultivars of the plant family Brassicaceae.

The sunflower scientifically known as Helianthus annus is the crop grown for its edible oil and seeds. In 2020, world production of sunflower seeds was 50 million tons, led by Russia and Ukraine with 53% combined of total production.
The optimum seed rate for sunflower is 8 - 10 kg/ha.