Crop production and management MCQs with Answers

Question-1. The branch of science that deals with growing plants and raising livestock for human use is

1. horticulture
2. pisciculture
3. animal husbandry
4. agriculture

Question-2. The process of beating out grains from the harvested wheat crop is called

1. crushing
2. threshing
3. harvesting
4. beating

Question-3. Growing different crops alternately on the same land is technically called

1. Crop Rotation
2. Crop Revolution
3. Crop Change
4. Crop Alternation

Question-4. The practice of growing two or more dissimilar crops in the same field one after another is

1. tilling
2. plantation
3. weeding
4. crop rotation

Question-5. Animals like horse, donkey that carries load are called

1. Load carrying Animals
2. Dairy Animals
3. Draught Animal
4. Drought species

Question-6. What is NPK?

1. Manure
2. Weedicide
3. Weed
4. Fertiliser

Question-7. The unwanted plants that grow along with the crops are called

1. manure
2. weeds
3. kharif crops
4. fertilisers

Question-8. The management of rearing of animals for food and other products is known as

1. animal husbandry
2. poultry
3. warehouse
4. granaries

Question-9. The method of loosening the soil is called

1. ploughing
2. levelling
3. threshing
4. harvesting

Question-10. Which of the following can make their own food:

1. animals
2. plants
3. all of these
4. humans

Question-11. The ideal months for harvesting kharif crop are

1. August/September
2. September/October
3. November/December
4. June/July

Question-12. The crops which are sown in the rainy season are called:

1. rabi crops
2. zayed crops
3. none of these
4. kharif crops

Question-13. Compost is basically a

1. fertiliser
2. pesticide
3. weedicide
4. manure

Question-14. Rabi crops are sown in

1. May, June
2. October, November
3. Any time
4. March, April

Question-15. Which of the following is generally used for making compost?

1. Paper
2. Plastics
3. Organic plant waste
4. Metals

Question-16. In which of the following methods of irrigation rotating nozzles are used?

1. Drip system
2. Chain Pump
3. Sprinkler system
4. Moat

Question-17. Which of the following is not provided to the soil by a chemical fertiliser?

1. Humus
2. Potassium
3. Phosphorus
4. Nitrogen

Question-18. Which of the following is not a kharif crop?

1. Maize
2. Groundnut
3. Peas
4. Paddy

Question-19. Weeds can be removed by using

1. fungicides
2. weedicides
3. bactericides
4. pesticides

Question-20. Pesticides are used to destroy:

1. weeds
2. crops
3. none of these
4. pests

Question-21. The tool used for removing weeds is:

1. hoe
2. leveller
3. none of these
4. plough

Question-22. The farm appliance ?Combine? is a combined

1. Seed drill cum Thresher
2. Harvester and Thresher
3. Harvester cum Sprayer
4. Plough and Harvester

Question-23. Which of the following is an example of rabi crop?

1. Onion
2. Jute
3. Pulses
4. Potato

Question-24. Wheat and gram belong to

1. kharif crops
2. both of these
3. none of these
4. rabi crops

Question-25. Which of the following are agricultural implements?

1. Silos
2. Harrow
3. All of these
4. Seed drills

Question-26. Now a days seed is sown in the field using

1. Seed drill
2. Seed Tiller
3. Seed Plough
4. Seed Tractor

Question-27. Levelling of soil helps to prevent

1. cultivation
2. sowing
3. drought
4. soil erosion

Question-28. Seed drill is used to

1. remove the weeds
2. remove the pest
3. mix manure in the soil
4. sow the seeds

Question-29. Watering the crops is called

1. manuring
2. tilling
3. irrigation
4. sowing

Question-30. Separating grains from chaff is called

1. threshing
2. tilling
3. harvesting
4. sowing

Question-31. Combines are used for

1. harvesting the crops
2. threshing
3. both harvesting and threshing
4. sowing of seeds

Question-32. Rabi Crops are grown in…..............season

1. Spring
2. Winter
3. rainy
4. Summer

Question-33. Which of the following is an important factor for the growth of crops?

1. Flumidity
2. Rainfall
3. All of the above
4. Temperature

Question-34. In the harvested crop the grain seed is separated from the chaff. This process id called

1. Seeding
2. Ploughing
3. Weeding
4. Threshing

Question-35. The process of separating grains from chaff is known as:

1. harvesting
2. winnowing
3. transplantation
4. threshing

Question-36. Which of the following is used for tilling the land by cultivator?

1. Bullock
2. Buffalo
3. Fforse
4. Tractor

Question-37. Before sowing the seeds, it is necessary to break soil to the size of grains to get better yield. The main tools used for such are

1. Bullock, tiller, tractor
2. Plough, Hoe, Cultivator
3. Plough, Seed Drill, Tractor
4. Tractor, Hoe, Seed drill

Question-38. Moat, Dhekli and Rahat are different

1. Traditional methods of Weeding
2. Traditional methods of Seed sowing
3. Traditional methods of irrigation
4. Traditional methods of cultivation

Question-39. Which of the following is not a fertiliser:

1. cow-dung
2. potash
3. super phosphate
4. urea

Question-40. Which of the following description is true for describing fertiliser

1. Organic in nature
2. Does not cause pollution
3. Produced in factories
4. Used in large quantity

Question-41. The supply of water to crops at different intervals is called

1. irrigation
2. harvesting
3. none of these
4. watering

Question-42. At home to store grains we use:

1. dried neem leaves
2. dried mango leaves
3. dried peepal leaves
4. wet neem leaves

Question-43. Rhizobium bacteria is present in the nodules of the roots:

1. leguminous plants
2. maize
3. onion
4. wheat

Question-44. Examples of kharif crops are

1. gram and maize
2. paddy and maize
3. all of these
4. wheat and maize

Question-45. Rhizobium (a Bacteri

1. Leaves of leguminous plants
2. Stem of Leguminous plants
3. All of the above.
4. which fixes atmospheric nitrogen are found in nodules growing in a) Roots of leguminous plants

Question-46. Products obtained from the crops are called

1. produce
2. crop
3. fertilisers
4. yield