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Past Questions — 2024

MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Equipment for seed bed preparation

A) Seed drill
B) Disc plough
C) Wheel hoe
D) Power reaper
Option B is correct: Disc plough.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

The father of extension education is

A) Sommers
B) Brunner
C) JP Leagans
D) Albert Mayer
Option C is correct: JP Leagans.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Normally ploughing depth of soil is cm.

A) 20
B) 15
C) 25
D) 10
Option B is correct: 15.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Country ploughs, Bakhar and Patela are the most popular traditional implements for

A) Puddling
B) Weeding
C) Seed bed preparation
D) Intercultural operation
Option C is correct: Seed bed preparation.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

The first agricultural university established in India was

A) PAU, Punjab
B) IARI, New Delhi
C) OUAT, Orrisa
D) GB Pant University, Uttarakhand
Option D is correct: GB Pant University, Uttarakhand.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Spoken and visual methods are

A) Conferences
B) Charts and sound movies
C) Leaflet
D) Speciments
Option B is correct: Charts and sound movies.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

The seed cum fertilizer drill mainly replace the method of

A) Broadcasting
B) Puddling
C) Planking
D) Weeding
Option A is correct: Broadcasting.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Ploughing method to break the soil and turn along the contour

A) Contour planking
B) Contour ridging
C) Contour breaking
D) Contour ploughing
Option D is correct: Contour ploughing.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Farm mechanization can increase the cropping intensity to %.

A) 10-15
B) 20-30
C) 15-20
D) 30>
Option B is correct: 20-30.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Agricultural extension is

A) Non formal
B) Formal
C) Informal
D) None of these
Option A is correct: Non formal.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

The first step in any systematic attempt to promote rural development is to useful programmes based on people.

A) Needs and requirement
B) Knowledge
C) Wealth
D) Health
Option A is correct: Needs and requirement.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

The NDC on May, 2007 a special additional central assistance scheme

A) JTY
B) IVLP
C) IRDP
D) RKVY
Option D is correct: RKVY.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Plant protection equipment’s includes

A) Sprayer and Khurpi
B) Sprayer and reaper
C) Sprayer and light trap
D) Sprayer an decorticator
Option C is correct: Sprayer and light trap.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Extension programme should necessarily have which objetives

A) Spoken
B) Written
C) Visual
D) Spoken and Visual
Option B is correct: Written.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Fidelity in communication is associated with

A) Effectiveness
B) Barrier
C) Sound
D) Noise
Option A is correct: Effectiveness.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Principle of extension education includes principle of

A) Learning the knowledge
B) Learning of farmers
C) Learning by doing
D) Learning by seeing
Option C is correct: Learning by doing.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

First important step in an extension education process is

A) Situation analysis
B) Reconsideration
C) Objective definement
D) Traverse
Option A is correct: Situation analysis.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Extension is based upon the methods of

A) Science
B) Arts
C) Culture
D) Science and culture
Option D is correct: Science and culture.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

The seed viability test is also known as :

A) Tollitum test
B) Tetrazolium test
C) Zollium est
D) Germination test
Option B is correct: Tetrazolium test.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Clonal crops are also known as propagated crops.

A) Asexually
B) Hybrid
C) Fl selection
D) Sexually
Option A is correct: Asexually.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

The harvest maturity symptoms of pulses is

A) Brown pods
B) Hard seed in pods
C) Brown and drying of maximum leafs
D) Allof these
Option D is correct: Allof these.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

The headquarter of NABARD is located at

A) Delhi
B) Chennai
C) Kolkata
D) Mumbai
Option D is correct: Mumbai.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

The central variety release committee (CVRC) in ICAR was started in October

A) 1975
B) 1968
C) 1964
D) 1990
Option C is correct: 1964.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

The term seed is used for any propagating material known as

A) Propagule
B) Endogeal
C) Progule
D) All ofthese
Option A is correct: Propagule.
MAS Jr. Grade • 2024 • Paper-IV

Ultra low volume sprayers drops water and pesticide mixed in the form of

A) Fog
B) Aerosol
C) Mists
D) Sprays
Option B is correct: Aerosol.