Kerala PSC Questions: Top Questions on Agriculture

Father of Organic Farming movement – Sir Albert Howard
The loss of fertile top soil is called Soil Erosion
Development of Agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self sufficient – Permaculture
Agricultural System of terminating cultivation in a particular land when the soil shows signs of exhaustion and allowing the land to revert to its natural vegetation by changing cultivation to another plot is known as – Shifting Cultivation
Farming along with some other agricultural based practice like poultry, diary farming or bee keeping is known as Mixed Farming
Agriculture production system which uses small input of capital and labour in a large area is called – Extensive Farming
The science of improving crop varieties is called – Plant Breeding
Transportation of food in plants takes place through? – Phloem
With which crop is the name “Jaya” associated? – Rice
Who was the Agricultural Scientist , who gave leadership to the “Green Revolution”? – Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
The “Operation flood” associated? – Effort for increasing production of milk.
A seed dispersed with the help of hairs on it is – Cotton
There are mainly two types of Crops – Food Crops and Cash Crops
The food crops such as Cereals and Pulses are grown to meet the food demand of the people
Cash crops are two types – Plantation crops and field crops
Tea, Coffee, rubber etc are plantation crops
Cotton, Jute, Sugarcane, oilseeds, tobacco etc. are field crops.