Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production

Keeping beehives in crop fields during flowering period causes

1. Increased pollination efficiency
2. Increasing yield of crop
3. Increasing yield of honey
4. All of the above

Which of the following is a freshwater fish?

1. Mackerel
2. Pomfret
3. Rohu
4. Bombay duck

The sperm employed for artificial insemination of cattle are stored in

1. Liquid nitrogen
2. Dry ice
3. Liquid ammonia
4. Liquid CO2

The cows, superovulation during MOET leads to production of

1. 16-20 eggs
2. 6-8 eggs
3. 25-30 eggs
4. 200-400 eggs

Which of the following plays a role in indigenous system of medicine?

1. Plant breeding
2. Fisheries
3. Apiculture
4. MOET

Which one of the following products of apiculture is used in cosmetics and polishes?

1. Honey
2. Oil
3. Royal jelly
4. Beeswax

The common species of Honey bee occurring in the wild in India is

1. Apis florea
2. Apis indica
3. Apis dorsata
4. Apis mellifera

Which of the following types of bees intimate source of food to other workers by dancing movements?

1. Drones
2. Scout bees
3. Nurse bees
4. Queen bees

Blue revolution is enhancement in production of

1. Milk
2. Egg
3. Fish
4. Wheat

Which of the following is a real product of honey bees?

1. Honey
2. Propolis
3. Beeswax
4. Pollen

Fishes reared in culture fishery in India are

1. Salmon and Rohu
2. Salmon and Catla
3. Catla and Magur
4. Rohu and Catla

A queen honey bee lays eggs of

1. One type from which all castes develop
2. Two types, one forming queen and workers and second forming drones
3. Three types forming queen, drone and workers
4. Unfertilised eggs die while fertilised ones form all castes

National dairy research institute is located in

1. Lucknow
2. Ranchi
3. Karnal
4. UP

Aquaculture does not include

1. Prawns
2. Fishes
3. Silkworms
4. Shell fishery

Keeping beehives in crop fields during the flowering period increases

1. Crop yield
2. Honey yield
3. Weeds yield
4. Both (1) & (2)

Fisheries include_____ of fish

1. Rearing
2. Catching
3. Selling
4. All of the above

Reduction in fertility due to continued inbreeding is called inbreeding depression and is overcome by mating the animals with

1. Further inbreeding
2. Superior animals of different species
3. Superior animals of different breeds
4. Unrelated superior animals of the same breed

Which of the following is not an objective of animal breeding?

1. Increasing yield of milk, eggs, meat, etc.
2. Improving the desirable qualities of produce
3. Slow growth rate
4. Resistance to various diseases

The breed evolved at National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, by mating Sahiwal cow with Brown Swiss is

1. Hisardale
2. Brown-Fries
3. Hallikar
4. Karan Swiss

Hisardale has been developed by

1. Inbreeding
2. Outbreeding
3. Cross-breeding
4. Interspecific hybridisation

More than ____ of the world livestock population is in India and China

1. 25%
2. 70%
3. 90%
4. 50%

The advantage of inbreeding in animal husbandry is that it

1. Increase homozygosity
2. Increase heterozygosity
3. Improves the breed with a single step
4. Causes deletion of superior genes

Fowls which are reared for eggs and for meat purpose, respectively, are

1. Layers, Broilers
2. Broilers, Layers
3. Milch, Draught
4. Draught, Milch

In MOET ____ cell stage, the fertilised egg are recovered non-surgically and transferred to surrogate mothers

1. 8-32
2. 2-4
3. 6-8
4. 4-6

The term 'Breed' means

1. A group of animals related by descent and similar in most of the characters like general appearance, feature, size and configurations
2. A group of animals which depend on each other
3. A group of animals living in a same habitat
4. A group of animals which can not reproduce with each other

Good breeds should have

1. High yielding potential under climatic conditions of the area
2. Resistance to disease
3. Improved quality of the yield
4. All of the above

Which of the following procedures are followed in dairy farm management?

1. (i) and (ii)
2. (i) and (iii)
3. (iii) and (iv)
4. All of the above

Find out the incorrect statement

1. Animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock
2. More than 70 per cent of the world's livestock population is in India and China
3. Dairying is the management of animals for milk and its products for human consumption
4. Hisardale is a new breed of sheep developed in Punjab by crossing Bikaneri rams and Marino ewes

The young chicken raised especially for meat are called ___________

1. Hen
2. Pullets
3. Broilers
4. Cockerels

Identify A and B in the improved breed of animal and bird

1. A-Beetel, B-Jamunapari
2. A-Marwari, B-Sirohi
3. A-Surti, B-Sangammeri
4. A-Jersey, B-Leghorn

In crossbreeding, ________ of one breed are mated with _________ of another breed

1. Superior males, normal females
2. Normal males, superior females
3. Normal males, normal females
4. Superior males, superior females

Artificial insemination is better than natural insemination in cattle because

1. It is economical
2. Semen of good bulls can be provided anywhere
3. There is no likelihood of contagious disease
4. All of the above

High milk yielding varieties of cows are obtained by

1. Superovulation
2. Artificial insemination
3. Use of surrogate mothers
4. All of the above

Mule is an example of

1. Out-crossing, obtained by crossing male donkey and a female horse
2. Interspecific hybridisation, obtained by crossing a male donkey and a female horse
3. Crossbreeding, obtained by crossing a female donkey and a male horse
4. Interspecific hybridisation, obtained by crossing a female donkey and a male horse

Which of the following statements are the main objective of animals breeding?

1. I & II
2. II, III & IV
3. I, II & III
4. I, II, III & IV

Which state of India occupies the first position in poultry farming?

1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Kerala
4. Uttar Pradesh

Read the following statements: Statement 1: Ranikhet disease is a disease of poultry; Statement 2: Ranikhet disease is caused by a virus

1. Both statements 1 and 2 are correct
2. Statement 1 is correct but statement 2 is incorrect
3. Statement 1 is incorrect but statement 2 is correct
4. Both statements 1 and 2 are incorrect

Which of the following is involved in poultry farming?

1. Chicken
2. Turkey
3. Geese
4. All of the above

Hisardale is obtained by crossing

1. Merino ewes with Bikaneri Rams
2. Bikaneri ewes with Merino Rams
3. Horse with Donkey
4. Superior bull with a Superior cow

It is estimated that more than ________ of the world livestock population is in India and China

1. 60%
2. 50%
3. 70%
4. 40%