List of Important GK Question Answer for NDA exam 2017-2018
By Roopali Thapliyal | General knowledge | Sep 12, 2017
- List of Important GK Question Answer for NDA exam 2017-2018 posted by Ground Zero Institute Dehradun
- McMohan Line lies between which of the following countries? India and China
- India is the seventh largest country in the world. It occupies: 4% of world area
- The imaginary line joining the land projecting towards the sea which is the landward limit of internal seawater is called: Base Line
- The Beas project consisting of Beas-Satluj link and Pong dam at Beas is the joint venture of
- Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan
- The Nagarjuna Sagar Dam Project is located on :
- Krishna River in Nalgonda district
- Which river is known as the sorrow of Bihar due to its devastating flood and frequent changes in its course?
- Kosi River
- CGWB stands for: Central Ground Water Board
- Which planet is called a watery planet? Earth
- The Crude Birth Rate is defined as: The Number of births per thousand population in a particular year
- AGRICULTURE
- Which instrument measures the soil salinity? Conductivity meter
- Uniform soil erosion by running water is Sheet erosion
- Terracing is done in which type of areas? Hilly areas
- Crop rotation is employed for Enhancing soil fertility
- Social forestry is useful in yielding Multipurpose uses
- Eco-friendly method is Energy plantation
- Silent valley has been preserved as it has Natural forest
- India’s Wheat Yield revolution of the 1960s was possible primarily due to
- Mutations resulting in plant height reduction
- Ranikhet is a disease of Poultry
- Dwarf wheat varieties brought into India from Mexico were Sonora-64 and Lerma Rolo-64
- As per the 2010-11 advance estimates recently released by Central Statistics Office (CSO) the agriculture and allied sector accounted for :
- 2% of Gross Domestic Product at Constant 2004-05 prices
- Agriculture and allied sector account for: 1% of the total exports of India
- During the first three years of the Current Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12) agriculture sector recorded an average growth of: 03%
- As per the third advance estimates of food grain for the year 2010-11 the production of food, grains stands at the highest level of: 88 million tonnes
- Rangarajan Panel was recently constitution to study the recommendations of National Advisory Council (NAC) on the proposed: National Food Security Bill
- The group of crops which is sowm in October last and harvested in March/ April every year is :
- Rabi Crop
- Grey revolution in India is associated with the Resources is Located in Karnal (Haryana)
- National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources is located in: New Delhi
- International Institution of Horticulture situated at Brazil
- Which gas is released from the paddy field? CH4
- Which two crops are responsible for almost 75% of pulse production in India? Gram and Pigeon Pea
- Supersonic Jet causes pollution by thinning of O3 Layer
- Who invented Penicillin? Alexander Fleming
- The name of the white revolution is associated with VergheseKurien
- Scientists at the Tomato Genome Consortium (TGC) successfully sequenced the genomes of which of the following vegetables? Tomato
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was jointly awarded Noble Prize in Chemistry in the year 2009 for the
- Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
- Which Indian scientist proposed a theory for long distance transport of water in plants?
- C. Bose
- Crop rotation helps to Eliminate parasites which have selective hosts
- The credit of Green Revolution in India goes to Norman Borlaug and Dr. M. s. Swaminathan
- Silver Revolution in India is associated with: The production of Eggs
- As per the National Agriculture Policy 2000, the growth rate for agriculture has been targeted at 4% :
- For next two decades
- The State Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act was passed in :
- The year 2003
- TRIFED stands for :
- Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited
- Food Chain Revolution aims at putting :
- A check on destroying food grains, vegetables, and fruits
- In milk production, India stands: First in the World
- The pioneer of operation flood in India is: Varghese Kurien
- About 3-68 crore farmers have been benefited from this scheme involving debt waiver and debt relief of Rs. 65318.33 crore. The scheme is :
- Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme 2008
- Three types of loans which are provided to Indian farmers to meet their financial requirements are :
- Short term loans, medium terms loans, and long term loans
- As per the Eleventh Five Year Plan Period (2007- 2012) target under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM), the production of rice, wheat and pulses are to be increased by :
- 10,8 and 2 million tonnes respectively
- Food management in India has three basic objectives namely :
- Procurement of foodgrains from farmers, distribution of food grains to the consumers and maintenance of food buffers for security and price stability
- Keeping in view the interest of the farmers as also the need of self-reliance the Government has been announcing Minimum Support Price (MSP) for: 24 Major crops
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