Organisation : Manipur Public Service Commission
Document Type : Question Paper
Year : 2014
Post : Assistant Agriculture Officer (AAO)
Website : mpscmanipur.gov.in/question.html
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AAO Examination Question Paper :
Codes: AAO123-2015
Time Allowed : Three Hours
Maximum Marks : 300
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MPSC Manipur Food Safety Officer Question Paper
INSTRUCTIONS :
1. The OMR Sheet is separately supplied to you. Fill in all the entries in the OMR Sheet correctly, failing which your OMR Sheet shall not be evaluated.
2. This Question Booklet contains 200 questions. Each question comprises four responses (answers). You have to select ONLY ONE response which you consider the best and mark it on the OMR Sheet.
3. You must check the Question Booklet and ensure that it contains all the questions and see that no page is missing or repeated. Discrepancies, if any in the Question Booklet or in the OMR Sheet, you must be reported to the invigilator immediately and Question Booklet / OMR Sheet shall be replaced.
4. All questions carry equal marks. Attempt ALL questions. Your total marks will depend only on the number of correct responses marked by you in the OMR Sheet.
5. Rough work must not be done on the OMR Sheet. Use the blank space at the last page of the Question Booklet for rough work.
6. Once you have completed filling in all your responses on the OMR Sheet and the examination has concluded, you should hand over the OMR Sheet to the Invigilator. In no case you should leave the Examination Hall without returning the OMR Sheet. Candidates are allowed to take away their Question Booklets. The duplicate OMR Sheet may also be taken away by the candidates.
7. There is no penalty for wrong answers.
1. Which one of the following is a selective herbicide?
a. Paraquat b. Glyphosate
c. Atrazine d. Diquat
2. Zygogramma bicolorata insect is used to control:
a. Parthenium hysterophorus
b. Echinochloa colonum
c. Lantana camara
d. Orobanche cernua
3. How is Fluchloralin applied ?
a. Pre-emergence
b. Post-emergence
c. Pre-plant incorporation
d. Late post emergence
4. Which of the following is parasitic weed of lucerne?
a. Cuscuta spp.
b. Avena fatua
c. Cichorium intybus
d. Cyperus rotundus
5. Mulching is an example of:
a. Chemical weed control method
b. Biological weed control method
c. Mechanical weed control method
d. None of the above
6. Maximum number of seeds per plant are produced by the weed plant:
a. Amarnathus spp.
b. Argemone mexicana
c. Cuscuta spp.
d. Chenopodium album
7. Which of the following is contact, non-selective and zero persistent herbicide?
a. Fluchloralin b. 2, 4-D
c. Atrazine d. Paraquat
8. Effective weed control measure of crop associated and crop bound weeds is?
a. Intercropping
b. Mulching
c. Hoeing & Weeding
d. Crop rotation
9. Example of aquatic weed is?
a. Eichhornia crassipes
b. Eleusine indica
c. Circium arvense
d. Amaranthus viridis
10. Example of biennial weed is?
a. Cynodon dactyton
b. Chenopodium spp.
c. Cyperus esculentus
d. Cirsium vulgare
11. Field capacity is the ______limit of soil water availability to plants.
a. Lower b. Middle
c. Upper d. All
12. Available Water Holding Capacity is:
a. Field Capacity-Permanent Wilting Point
b. Pe rma n e n t Wi l t i n g Po i n t -Hygroscopic Water
c. Field Capacity-Hygroscopic Water
d. Field Capacity-Ultimate Wilting Point
13. Which criterion of irrigation scheduling is more suitable and convenient to farmers?
a. Soil moisture tension
b. Pan evaporation
c. Water potential of plant
d. Critical growth stages
14. Irrigation Requirement (IR) can be obtained by:
a. IR = Water requirement
b. IR = Water requirement + Effective rainfall
c. IR = Water requirement – (Effective rainfall + Contribution from ground water table)
d. IR = Effective rainfall – (Water requirement + Contribution from ground water table)
15. Limits of boron in irrigation waters for semi-tolerant crops varies between:
a. 0.3 – 1.0 ppm b. 1.0 – 3.0 ppm
c. 2.0 – 4.0 ppm d. 4.0 – 6.0 ppm
16. Most important critical growth stage of wheat for irrigation is:
a. Crown root initiation
b. Tillering
c. Jointing
d. Grain filling
17. Water requirement of maize crop is:
a. 100 to 500 mm
b. 500 to 800 mm
c. 800 to 1500 mm
d. 1500 to 1800 mm
18. Single Super Phosphate contains _________ per cent sulphur:
a. 16 b. 18
c. 12 d. 20
19. Which one fertilizer contains secondary nutrient other than primary nutrients?
a. Ammonium nitrate
b. Urea
c. DAP
d. Ammonium sulphate
20. Which nutrient is essential to increase protein content in cereals?
a. Phosphorus b. Nitrogen
c. Potassium d. Calcium
21. Which one of the following nutrient stimulates flowering and seed formation?
a. Nitrogen b. Phosphorus
c. Sulphur d. Calcium
22. Khaira disease in rice is caused by deficiency of:
a. Nitrogen b. Sulphur
c. Iron d. Zinc
23. Which nutrient is not a constituent of chlorophyll but helps in chlorophyll?
a. Phosphorus b. Magnesium
c. Sulphur d. Nitrogen
24. Which nutrient is essential for symbiotic and non-symbiotic nitrogen fixation?
a. Boron b. Zinc
c. Iron d. Molybdenum
25. Iron chlorosis in calcareous soils can be corrected by application of:
a. Elemental sulphur
b. Lime
c. Murate of potash
d. Calcium ammonium nitrate
26. For foliar spray the biuret content in urea should be:
a. 1.0 – 1.5 per cent
b. 1.5 – 2.0 per cent
c. 2.0 -2.5 per cent
d. Less than 0.5 per cent
27. Whiptail disease of cauliflower is caused by deficiency of:
a. Zinc b. Molybdenum
c. Boron d. Manganese
28. Which one of the following oilcakes contains maximum nitrogen content?
a. Castor cake b. Groundnut cake
c. Neem cake d. Coconut cake
29. Which one of the following is concentrated organic manure?
a. FYM
b. Super Compost
c. Rock Compost
d. Castor cake
30. Phosphorus fixation is more in:
a. Neutral soils
b. Acid soils
c. Submerged soils
d. None of the above