IAS Mains Paper: Agriculture 2002
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Paper-I
Section A
- Write short notes in about 200 words each on any three of the following:
- Production Economics
- Producer՚s Surplus
- Integrated Nutrient Management
- Role of Agricultural Extension
- What are the advantages and principle characteristic of farm planning? Name the different techniques which can be used for farm planning under ideal conditions.
- Suggest suitable measures for evergreen revolution on sustainable basis to meet food and nutritional requirements in the new millenium.
- Discuss the criteria for scheduling irrigation in field crops. Give their merits and demerits also.
Section B
- Write short notes in about 200 words each on any three of the following:
- Crop Diversification
- Azolla as Bio-fertilizer
- Land Equivalent Ratio
- Wind Erosion
- Why is rice-wheat cropping sequence considered important among other crop sequences in the country? Describe briefly the limiting factors and remedial measures associated with this crop sequence for their higher production.
- Give in tabular form sowing time, seed rate, spacing, fertilizer and irrigation schedules of paddy, wheat, pigeon pea, mustard, linseed and berseem for their higher productivity.
- Write the role of dryland agriculture and its problems. Briefly describe the suitable technologies for increasing and stabilising agricultural production from such areas on watershed basis.
Paper-II
Section A
- Answer any three of the following in about 200 words each:
- Define dichogamy. Describe in brief protogyny and protandry.
- What is self-incompatibility? Describe in brief the mechanism of self incompatibility.
- What is biometry? Discuss the usefulness of biometrical techniques to the plant breeders.
- Define hybridization. Describe in-brief the various types of hybridization.
- Answer the following questions
- Describe in brief emasculation and discuss the various methods of emasculation.
- What is inbreeding? Discuss in brief the effects of inbreeding.
- Define mass selection. Explain the procedure of mass selection and discuss its merits and demerits.
- Answer the following questions
- Briefly describe the bulk method of breeding and its applications in crop improvement programme.
- Discuss in brief the progeny selection and describe its merits and demerits.
- Define and discuss plant growth regulators and their use in agriculture.
- Write short notes on the following:
- Transgenic plants
- Pheromones
- Disease complex of cotton
Section B
- Answer any three of the following in about 200 words:
- Define and discuss insecticide resistance management (I. R M) for a pest.
- Define Grain storage and describe integrated pest management of a storage pest.
- Discuss in brief the package of practices for the cultivation of tomato.
- Briefly describe the Indian Seed Act (1966) .
- Describe the nature of damage, life history and management of following insect-pests and diseases:
- Melong fruit fly
- Spotted ball worm of cotton
- Rice Tungro Virus
- Answer the following questions
- List the various international agencies and institutes concerned with the improvement of agriculture production. Briefly describe the objectives and functions of any two of them.
- Give an account in brief on Genetically Modified Crops.
- Discuss in brief the post harvest losses in fruits and vegetables, and the measures to minimize these losses.
- Write short notes on the following:
- Carbamate insecticides
- Methods of raising ornamental plants
- Neem in pests control