Agronomy MCQ Question and Answer | Agriculture MCQ Question

Brackish Water Fish Farmer's Development Agency is the organization that is working on the development of shrimp culture for the farmers. It aims at making use of the country's wide area of brackish water and improves shrimp farming under the execution of FFDA.

Terminator technology is the genetic modification of plants to make them produce sterile seeds, which are called suicide seeds.
This technology is widely used in cotton to prevent genetic modifications done to genetically modified crops like GM cotton from spreading to other plants.

A companion cropping is a crop sown with the other crop to gain some advantage in yield or crop protection from pests or also one can act as support for another climber crop.
Sugarcane + potato is an example of companion cropping. Sugarcane is a tall plant while potatoes can be grown underground, both can be grown simultaneously in the same field without harming each other.

‘Pusa Jai Kisan' is the high yielding mustard variety, that has been developed through the tissue culture technique. Somatic hybridization is a technique that has been used to tap the potential of related or distant species of crops by the fusion of protoplasts of two different plants.
Bio902, is lab name of Pusa Jai Kisan, was released in the year 1994 for commercial cultivation as Pusa Jai Kisan.

Acid forming fertilizers are acidifying agents which can help to raise the acidity levels of the soil. And Acid equivalent is that portion of a formulation that theoretically could be converted back to the corresponding parent acid.
The acid equivalent of urea is 80, not 60.

Oxalic acid is the acid derived from the green leaves of chickpea and it is prescribed for intestinal disorders. It also prevents the formation of kidney stones and reduces the risk of cystic fibrosis.

Our atmosphere is divided into five layers. These are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere from lowest to top in series.
The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere and thus it is nearest to our Earth. It extends upward to about 10 km (6.2 miles or about 33,000 feet) above sea level.

Soil structure is the way of assembling different particles of soil like soil, sand, clay and other particles.
Adding compost and nutrient fertilizers can add texture and improves the structure of the soil. Super phosphate is a fertilizer that helps in the maintenance of soil structure by providing an insoluble matrix on which complexion assists to hold the soluble fertilizer constituents in place.

Mimosine is an amitotic agent and toxin present in Leguminous crops. It has a major effect on stopping hair growth.
Leucaena is a multipurpose, ideal tree for growing on wastelands for fencing, soil fertility, firewood, fiber and livestock fodder. Its seeds are found to have a high content of mimosine toxin.

The potato belongs to the family Solanaceae. It is a family of flowering plants that range from annual and perennial herbs to vines, epiphytes, shrubs and trees.
The name Solanaceae derives from the genus Solanum and it is also termed as Nightshade family.