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KFD Recruitment Forest Officer Exam Question Paper

KARNATAKA FOREST DEPARTMENT
Range Forest Officers RECRUITMENT 2012-13
AGRICULTURE

Related / Similar Question Paper :
KPSC Karnataka Assistant Conservator of Forests Exam Question Paper

Time : 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Instructions
1. Please keep your mobile phone and other gadgets away. Failure to do so can result in cancellation of your candidature.
2. Please answer all the questions to the point. There are no marks for the length of answers.
3. Please answer all the questions within the answer booklet. No extra sheets will be supplied.

PART – A

20 x 1 = 20
Answer all the questions on the first page of the answer booklet.
1. What is the causal organism for Red rot of Sugarcane-
2. What is the chemical name of Gypsum-
3. What is the scientific name of Citrus caterpillar or Lemon Butterfly-
4. What is the Casual organism for Leaf-Blight of Rice crop-
5. What is the chemical formula of Urea-
6. What gas from paddy fields contributes to Global Warming-
7. Veins of leaf remain in ————— colour in Iron and Manganese deficiencies.
8. Expand ICRISAT.
9. What is a pure-line-
10. What is Xenia-
11. What is the metallic element in Chlorophyll –
12. What is polyploidy-

PART – B

(All questions are compulsory. Each question carries 4 marks) – 20 marks
21. Write short notes on any TWO the following.
a. Law of Equi-marginal returns b. Opportunity Costs c. Returns to scale
22. Write short notes on any TWO of the following-
a. Sex -linked inheritance b. Cytokinins c. Cytoplasmic inheritance
23. Write short notes on any TWO the following
a. Role of Zinc in plant nutrition & metabolism
b. Laterisation c. Factors that influence soil formation
24. Write short notes on any TWO the following
a. List important forest types of India b. Food pyramid c. National Green Tribunals
25. Expand any FOUR of the following.a. NBPGR b. IGFRI c. NWDPRA d. NAFED

PART – C

(All Questions are Compulsory. Each question carries 12 marks) – 60 marks
26. a) What are Koch’s postulates?
b) What are the causal organisms, symptoms and control measures for Late and Early Blights of Potato crop?
OR

a) What are Synthetic Pyrethroids and their significance in pest control?
b) What are Genetically Modified Crops? How are Bt Cotton and Bt Brinjal developed?

27. a) What is available moisture in a soil? Explain briefly Gravitational Water, Field Capacity and Hygroscopic water.
b) What is Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) and its significance in soil nutrition? Brief note on the three important Silicate Clay minerals that constitute clay soils?
OR

a) What is Soil Alkalinity? What are the problems of Soil Alkalinity and their amendments?
b) What is the role of Phosphorous in plants? In what forms phosphorous is mostly absorbed by the palnts? Why is phosphorous gets fixed in soils? What are the important phosphatic fertilizers.

28. a) Explain the Law of Diminishing returns with reference to input-output relationship in farm production, with graphical explanation.
b) What is Bio-prospecting and Bio-piracy? What are Geographical Indicators (GI) and give GI examples under Indian context?
OR

a) What is Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)? What are the key features and methods of PRA?
b) Classify Extension methods according to their use and nature of contact. Explain some of the important extension methods employed by agricultural extension workers.

29. a) What are Auxins? Write about the practical applications of auxins in agriculture?
b) Differentiate between C3 & C4 plants? What is the biological significance of C4 Cycle of photosynthesis.
OR

a) What is bio-magnification with reference to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) used in agriculture?
b) What are the issues concerning use of Endosulfon as a pesticide? Why is it in news recently and analyse the problem rationally?

30. a) What are the reasons for low productivity in Indian agriculture? Analyse the situation and offer suggestions to increase the productivity ?

b) What are the various Agro-climatic zones in Karnataka state,their significance and suitable cropping patterns for these zones?
OR
Write important varieties and package of practices for Sunflower and Cotton crops in Karnataka state?

KARNATAKA FOREST DEPARTMENT
RANGE FOREST OFFICERS RECRUITMENT 2012-13
BOTANY
Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks: 100
PART- A
20 x 1 = 20
Answer all the questions on the first page of the answer booklet.
1. Bicollateral vascular bundles are found in ______________ family.
2. _____________ is the edible part in Jack fruit.
3. Fungi, without sexual or perfect stages, are classified as ______________.
4. Some codons do not specify aminoacids and are known as ‘non-sense codons’.
5. For the first time, _____________ experimentally demonstrated that only
6. The diploid chromosome number of the garden pea is 2n = 14.
7. The first academic publication about the ‘ecological footprint’ was made
8. A minimum of _____________ meiotic divisions are required
9. _________________ type of inflorescence is found in Banana.
10. Dee-geo-woo-gen is the name of a variety of ____________.