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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-6. What is NPK?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-13. Compost is basically a

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

Question-14. Rabi crops are sown in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-19. Weeds can be removed by using

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

Question-20. Pesticides are used to destroy:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-24. Wheat and gram belong to

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

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

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

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

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

Question-27. Levelling of soil helps to prevent

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

Question-28. Seed drill is used to

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

Question-29. Watering the crops is called

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

Question-30. Separating grains from chaff is called

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

Question-31. Combines are used for

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-38. Moat, Dhekli and Rahat are different

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-44. Examples of kharif crops are

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

Question-45. Rhizobium (a Bacteri

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

Question-46. Products obtained from the crops are called

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