IBPS AFO 2022 Mains Solved Previous Year Question Paper - AgriInsights
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a) Cocoa
b) Cherry
c) Tea
d) Coffee ✅
e) Rubber
2. “Pusa Nanha” dwarf variety of Papaya is developed through?
a) Mutation ✅
b) Hybridization
c) Heterosis
d) Selection
e) Micropropagation
3. Which breed of goat is called the ‘Milk Queen’ of goats in the world?
a) Toggenburg
b) Anglo Nubian
c) Barbari
d) Sirohi
e) Saanen ✅
4. What is the minimum isolation distance required for the certified seed production of okra?
a) 3 Meter
b) 10 Meter
c) 400-meter
d) 200 Meter ✅
e) 50-meter
5. Akiochi disease in rice is due to the toxicity caused by?
a) Zinc
b) Iron
c) Phosphorus
d) Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) ✅
e) Coper
6. The test is done to identify incomplete pasteurization in milk?
a) Alkaline test ✅
b) MBE
c) Alcohol
d) COB test
e) None of these
7. Virus causes leaf curl disease of chili and it is transmitted by?
a) Thrips ✅
b) Whitefly
c) Aphid
d) Hopper
e) Mites
8. What are the diagnostic symptom of infestation of stem borer of maize?
a) Caterpillars feed on the leaves and bore into the stem and cob ✅
b) Adults and nymphs feed on the crop and damage it to leave
c) Caterpillars feed on the leaves and cause leaf curl and damage to crops.
d) Caterpillars feed on leaves and spots on leaves
e) None of these
9. Urea bag has been reduced from 50 kg to_____?
a) 45 kg ✅
b) 40 kg
c) 35 kg
d) 30 Kg
e) 25 kg
10. Amrapali is a cross between?
a) Neelum x Daseheri
b) Daseheri x Neelum ✅
c) Ratna x Alphonso
d) Alphonso x Ratna
e) Banganapalli X Alphonso
11. IRRI and its national research partners have developed Golden rice to complement and?
a) Vitamin A (beta-carotene) ✅
b) Vitamin B
c) Ascorbic acid
d) Vitamin K
e) Vitamin E
12. Rock phosphate is applied in which type of soil?
a) Saline
b) Alkaline
c) Neutral
d) Acidic soil ✅
e) None of these
13. Dual purpose (Milk and Meat) breed of Goat?
a) Black Bengal
b) Beetal ✅
c) Marwadi
d) Sanen
e) None of these
14. First Advance Estimates of National Income and Expenditures released by national statistical official, ministry of statistics on January 29, 2021. What is the Livestock sector's contribution to overall GVA?
a) 4.8 %
b) 6.2 %
c) 5.2 % ✅
d) 4 %
e) 7.1 %
15. The Oil content of groundnut are?
a) 44 to 58% ✅
b) 33 to 43 %
c) 20-25%
d) 15-20%
e) Less than 150
16. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane per quintal for the sugar season 2021-22?
a) 290/quintal ✅
b) 285/quintal
c) 270/quintal
d) 260/quintal
e) 240/quintal
17. Potato tubers are cured___ for 2 days and then at 7°C-10°C for 10-12 days at 90% relative humidity?
a) 4 °C
b) 18 °C ✅
c) 24 °C
d) 28 °C
e) 37.5 °C
18. Guava flesh pink spot variety that is also known as Sardar?
a) L-49 ✅
b) Allahabad safeda
c) Allahabad surkha
d) Safeda
e) None of these
19. Plant growth mechanisms towards the sunlight or other direction towards light is known as?
a) Photoperiodism ✅
b) Phototropism
c) Photorespiration
d) Photosynthesis
e) Photophosphorylation
20. The process in which immature green fruits turned into edible, desirable flavor, quality, color, and palatable nature with ethylene treatment?
a) Degreening
b) Ripening ✅
c) Curing
d) Precooling
e) Disinfection
21. The tree which produces silk cotton and kapok?
a) Bombax ceiba
b) Ceiba pentandra ✅
c) Cochospermum reliogiosum
d) Som & Soalu
e) Ricinus Communis
22. In the color chart of different diameter classes of trees, which class has no color chart?
a) 0-20 cm ✅
b) 20-30 cm
c) 30-40 cm
d) 40-50cm
e) 50-60 cm
23. Boron deficiency indicator plant?
a) Sunflower ✅
b) Bajra
c) Potato
d) Onion
e) Cauliflower
24. Exotic, cross-breed cow & buffalo for 5th of pregnancy how much concentrate (other than maintenance)?
a) 3kg
b) 2.5kg
c) 1.5kg ✅
d) 1kg
e) 0.5kg
25. Soil & water conservation method mostly used in hilly & mountain areas is?
a) Contour bunding ✅
b) Bench terracing
c) Zing terracing
d) Graded bunding
e) None of these
26. An advanced method of minimum tillage in which primary tillage is completely avoided and secondary tillage is reduced to row zone/seedbed zone only?
a) Ridge till
b) Stubble mulch farming
c) Minimum tillage
d) Strip tillage
e) Zero tillage ✅
27. Which soil ameliorants are used in sodic soil reclamation that is cheaper and easily available?
a) Gypsum ✅
b) Ammonium sulfate
c) Lime
d) Iron pyrite
e) Ammonium nitrate
28. A Greenhouse is a structure enclosed by agro nets or any other woven material to allow required sunlight, moisture, and air to pass through the gaps. It creates an appropriate microclimate conducive to plant growth?
a) Shade net ✅
b) Greenhouse
c) Playhouse
d) Hydroponics
e) Green House
29. Implement used for seedbed preparation and removal of weeds and stubbles, mixing of manures fertilizers?
a) Cultivator ✅
b) Rotavator
c) Leveler
d) Plough
e) None of these
30. A basic component of protein & chlorophyll constituent, vegetation growth, skeletal nutrients, and help in amino acid and protein formation?
a) Nitrogen ✅
b) Mg
c) P
d) Mn
e) K
31. Which among the following is the highest priority brackish water fish has a high growth rate and can tolerate fluctuations in temperature?
a) White prawn
b) Tiger prawn ✅
c) Milk Fish
d) Shrimp
e) Lobster
32. TSS for sugarcane ripening determination- brix?
a) 20 ✅
b) 10
c) 25
d) 30
e) 32
33. Cricket ball & Kalipatti variety of which crop?
a) Sapota ✅
b) Ber
c) Guava
d) Pear
e) Plum
34. ACABC (AgriClinics and Agribusiness Centre) take training from which of the following institute?
a) KVIC
b) MANAGE ✅
c) ICAR
d) ATMA
e) NABARD
35. Which among the following is a drought breed of cattle where cows are less milker, but bulls are best for cart & field purposes?
a) Sahiwal
b) Gir
c) Tharparkar
d) Krishna Valley ✅
e) Red Sindhi
36. If an irrigation water source has the concentration of Na+, Ca++ & Mg++ as 20, 10 & 8 ml equivalents per liter respectively, then the sodium absorption ratio of this water?
a) 6.67 ✅
b) 6
c) 5.1
d) 4
e) None of these
37. Prevention of brucellosis disease in goats can be done by taking measures like?
a) Dipping in CuSO4 tank
b) Isolation, vaccination, blood test, culling of affected animals ✅
c) Proper medication and antibiotics
d) Clean hygiene
e) Avoid Green fodder feeding
38. Zero tillage got successful because of
a) Soil amendments
b) Herbicides ✅
c) Insecticides
d) Fungicides
e) Pesticides
39. Which is used in the rear of the tractor transmission part for attaching the combine harvester, mover, thresher, etc to the tractor?
a) PTO ✅
b) Tractor Drawbar
c) Hitch
d) Tractor pulley
e) Battery
40. Which instrument is used to determine water content in milk?
a) Lactometer ✅
b) Hydrometer
c) Anemometer
d) Katharometer
e) Lactoscope
41. Norin 10 gene responsible for Dwarfness in which crop?
a) Dwarf gene in wheat ✅
b) Dwarf gene in rice
c) Dis. Resistance in maize
d) Dwarf gene in maize
e) None of these
42. A conical evergreen tree with dark green and silvery leaves, spirally arranged, broad leaves at a stage, no symmetry, grows in cool temperatures?
a) Deodar ✅
b) Khair
c) Sheesham
d) Haldu
e) None of these
43. Which technique does not transfer genes directly?
a) Explant culture & Transfer ✅
b) Particle bombardment
c) Chemical transfection
d) Electroporation
e) Microinjection
44. What is the purpose of pasteurization in milk?
a) To destroy most of the pathogenic microorganism disease-causing bacteria ✅
b) To check the growth of bacteria
c) To check the adulteration in milk
d) To increase the acidity of milk
e) To reduce the size of fat globules
45. In the adiabatic dehumidification process, when humid air passes through a desiccated cell or material then the humidity of the material______ and temperature______?
a) Increase, decrease
b) Increase, Increase
c) Decrease, Increase ✅
d) Decrease, decrease
e) None of these
46. In Tamilnadu, catamarans made up of 3-5 logs are in pattern and a specialized type made of 7 logs catamaran or kolamaram are used for catching flying fish. It’s termed?
a) Catamaran
b) Coromandel ✅
c) Andra type
d) Dhingra
e) None of these
47. The organism that can withstand a wider range of salinity is known as an?
a) Stenohaline
b) Euryhaline ✅
c) Oligohaline
d) Estuarine
e) None of these
48. Main reason for seed dormancy is?
a) Immature embryo ✅
b) Physical cracking
c) Presence of pathogen
d) Distorted seed coat
e) Fungal growth
49. Loans against pledge hypothecation of agriculture produce (including warehouse receipts) for a period not exceeding 12 months subject to limit up to against NWRs/ENWRS?
a) 75 Lakh ✅
b) 50 Lakh
c) 25 Lakh
d) 100 Lakh
e) None of these
50. Imperfectly developed female unable to reproduce but possess all the maternal instinct & also defense mechanism has been developed and does the work for colony welfare?
a) Queen bee
b) Worker bee ✅
c) Drone
d) Solitary bee
e) None of these
51. Growing plants out from forest area where it was not present before and whose purpose is to increase the area under forest is known as?
a) Farm Forestry
b) Extension forestry ✅
c) Recreational forestry
d) Mixed forestry
e) Agroforestry
52. Fish having lungs as labyrinths?
a) Rohu
b) Catla
c) Mrigal
d) Gourami ✅
e) None of these
54. Advance pregnancy symptoms in cattle when an embryo is out?
a) Lapsing of uterus and vagina ✅
b) Anoestrus
c) Sexual impurities
d) Oestrus
e) Silent oestrus
55. Curled toe paralysis in chicken due to?
a) Vita-B1
b) Vit-B2 ✅
c) Vit.-E
d) Vit- A
e) None of these
56. Muga silk is reared on?
a) Som & Soalu ✅
b) Castor
c) Arjun
d) Shorea robusta
e) Terminalia tomentose
57. When the plant is propagated by small tissue or part of the plant is termed a?
a) Sexual propagation
b) Micropropagation ✅
c) Hybridization
d) Somatic hybridization
e) None of these
58. Which among the following is the highest priority brackish water fish has a high growth rate and can tolerate fluctuation in temperature?
a) White shrimp ✅
b) Tiger shrimp
c) Milkfish
d) Prawn
e) Lobster
59. Which of the following is a bacterial infectious disease of fishery Disintegrating fins, blood on edges of fins, fin rays become brittle and lead to fin and tail rot?
a) Red pest
b) Dropsy
c) Mouth fungus
d) Tail and fin rot ✅
e) Velvet
60. Method of drainage that is used in high water table areas, hilly areas, and under the surface?
a) Mole drainage
b) Tile drainage ✅
c) Gravity outlet
d) Open channel
e) None of these
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IBPS AFO Mains 2022 - Solved Previous Year Paper
1. Coorg is a commercial variety of?a) Cocoa
b) Cherry
c) Tea
d) Coffee ✅
e) Rubber
2. “Pusa Nanha” dwarf variety of Papaya is developed through?
a) Mutation ✅
b) Hybridization
c) Heterosis
d) Selection
e) Micropropagation
3. Which breed of goat is called the ‘Milk Queen’ of goats in the world?
a) Toggenburg
b) Anglo Nubian
c) Barbari
d) Sirohi
e) Saanen ✅
4. What is the minimum isolation distance required for the certified seed production of okra?
a) 3 Meter
b) 10 Meter
c) 400-meter
d) 200 Meter ✅
e) 50-meter
5. Akiochi disease in rice is due to the toxicity caused by?
a) Zinc
b) Iron
c) Phosphorus
d) Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) ✅
e) Coper
6. The test is done to identify incomplete pasteurization in milk?
a) Alkaline test ✅
b) MBE
c) Alcohol
d) COB test
e) None of these
7. Virus causes leaf curl disease of chili and it is transmitted by?
a) Thrips ✅
b) Whitefly
c) Aphid
d) Hopper
e) Mites
8. What are the diagnostic symptom of infestation of stem borer of maize?
a) Caterpillars feed on the leaves and bore into the stem and cob ✅
b) Adults and nymphs feed on the crop and damage it to leave
c) Caterpillars feed on the leaves and cause leaf curl and damage to crops.
d) Caterpillars feed on leaves and spots on leaves
e) None of these
9. Urea bag has been reduced from 50 kg to_____?
a) 45 kg ✅
b) 40 kg
c) 35 kg
d) 30 Kg
e) 25 kg
10. Amrapali is a cross between?
a) Neelum x Daseheri
b) Daseheri x Neelum ✅
c) Ratna x Alphonso
d) Alphonso x Ratna
e) Banganapalli X Alphonso
11. IRRI and its national research partners have developed Golden rice to complement and?
a) Vitamin A (beta-carotene) ✅
b) Vitamin B
c) Ascorbic acid
d) Vitamin K
e) Vitamin E
12. Rock phosphate is applied in which type of soil?
a) Saline
b) Alkaline
c) Neutral
d) Acidic soil ✅
e) None of these
13. Dual purpose (Milk and Meat) breed of Goat?
a) Black Bengal
b) Beetal ✅
c) Marwadi
d) Sanen
e) None of these
14. First Advance Estimates of National Income and Expenditures released by national statistical official, ministry of statistics on January 29, 2021. What is the Livestock sector's contribution to overall GVA?
a) 4.8 %
b) 6.2 %
c) 5.2 % ✅
d) 4 %
e) 7.1 %
15. The Oil content of groundnut are?
a) 44 to 58% ✅
b) 33 to 43 %
c) 20-25%
d) 15-20%
e) Less than 150
16. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane per quintal for the sugar season 2021-22?
a) 290/quintal ✅
b) 285/quintal
c) 270/quintal
d) 260/quintal
e) 240/quintal
17. Potato tubers are cured___ for 2 days and then at 7°C-10°C for 10-12 days at 90% relative humidity?
a) 4 °C
b) 18 °C ✅
c) 24 °C
d) 28 °C
e) 37.5 °C
18. Guava flesh pink spot variety that is also known as Sardar?
a) L-49 ✅
b) Allahabad safeda
c) Allahabad surkha
d) Safeda
e) None of these
19. Plant growth mechanisms towards the sunlight or other direction towards light is known as?
a) Photoperiodism ✅
b) Phototropism
c) Photorespiration
d) Photosynthesis
e) Photophosphorylation
20. The process in which immature green fruits turned into edible, desirable flavor, quality, color, and palatable nature with ethylene treatment?
a) Degreening
b) Ripening ✅
c) Curing
d) Precooling
e) Disinfection
21. The tree which produces silk cotton and kapok?
a) Bombax ceiba
b) Ceiba pentandra ✅
c) Cochospermum reliogiosum
d) Som & Soalu
e) Ricinus Communis
22. In the color chart of different diameter classes of trees, which class has no color chart?
a) 0-20 cm ✅
b) 20-30 cm
c) 30-40 cm
d) 40-50cm
e) 50-60 cm
23. Boron deficiency indicator plant?
a) Sunflower ✅
b) Bajra
c) Potato
d) Onion
e) Cauliflower
24. Exotic, cross-breed cow & buffalo for 5th of pregnancy how much concentrate (other than maintenance)?
a) 3kg
b) 2.5kg
c) 1.5kg ✅
d) 1kg
e) 0.5kg
25. Soil & water conservation method mostly used in hilly & mountain areas is?
a) Contour bunding ✅
b) Bench terracing
c) Zing terracing
d) Graded bunding
e) None of these
26. An advanced method of minimum tillage in which primary tillage is completely avoided and secondary tillage is reduced to row zone/seedbed zone only?
a) Ridge till
b) Stubble mulch farming
c) Minimum tillage
d) Strip tillage
e) Zero tillage ✅
27. Which soil ameliorants are used in sodic soil reclamation that is cheaper and easily available?
a) Gypsum ✅
b) Ammonium sulfate
c) Lime
d) Iron pyrite
e) Ammonium nitrate
28. A Greenhouse is a structure enclosed by agro nets or any other woven material to allow required sunlight, moisture, and air to pass through the gaps. It creates an appropriate microclimate conducive to plant growth?
a) Shade net ✅
b) Greenhouse
c) Playhouse
d) Hydroponics
e) Green House
29. Implement used for seedbed preparation and removal of weeds and stubbles, mixing of manures fertilizers?
a) Cultivator ✅
b) Rotavator
c) Leveler
d) Plough
e) None of these
30. A basic component of protein & chlorophyll constituent, vegetation growth, skeletal nutrients, and help in amino acid and protein formation?
a) Nitrogen ✅
b) Mg
c) P
d) Mn
e) K
31. Which among the following is the highest priority brackish water fish has a high growth rate and can tolerate fluctuations in temperature?
a) White prawn
b) Tiger prawn ✅
c) Milk Fish
d) Shrimp
e) Lobster
32. TSS for sugarcane ripening determination- brix?
a) 20 ✅
b) 10
c) 25
d) 30
e) 32
33. Cricket ball & Kalipatti variety of which crop?
a) Sapota ✅
b) Ber
c) Guava
d) Pear
e) Plum
34. ACABC (AgriClinics and Agribusiness Centre) take training from which of the following institute?
a) KVIC
b) MANAGE ✅
c) ICAR
d) ATMA
e) NABARD
35. Which among the following is a drought breed of cattle where cows are less milker, but bulls are best for cart & field purposes?
a) Sahiwal
b) Gir
c) Tharparkar
d) Krishna Valley ✅
e) Red Sindhi
36. If an irrigation water source has the concentration of Na+, Ca++ & Mg++ as 20, 10 & 8 ml equivalents per liter respectively, then the sodium absorption ratio of this water?
a) 6.67 ✅
b) 6
c) 5.1
d) 4
e) None of these
37. Prevention of brucellosis disease in goats can be done by taking measures like?
a) Dipping in CuSO4 tank
b) Isolation, vaccination, blood test, culling of affected animals ✅
c) Proper medication and antibiotics
d) Clean hygiene
e) Avoid Green fodder feeding
38. Zero tillage got successful because of
a) Soil amendments
b) Herbicides ✅
c) Insecticides
d) Fungicides
e) Pesticides
39. Which is used in the rear of the tractor transmission part for attaching the combine harvester, mover, thresher, etc to the tractor?
a) PTO ✅
b) Tractor Drawbar
c) Hitch
d) Tractor pulley
e) Battery
40. Which instrument is used to determine water content in milk?
a) Lactometer ✅
b) Hydrometer
c) Anemometer
d) Katharometer
e) Lactoscope
41. Norin 10 gene responsible for Dwarfness in which crop?
a) Dwarf gene in wheat ✅
b) Dwarf gene in rice
c) Dis. Resistance in maize
d) Dwarf gene in maize
e) None of these
42. A conical evergreen tree with dark green and silvery leaves, spirally arranged, broad leaves at a stage, no symmetry, grows in cool temperatures?
a) Deodar ✅
b) Khair
c) Sheesham
d) Haldu
e) None of these
43. Which technique does not transfer genes directly?
a) Explant culture & Transfer ✅
b) Particle bombardment
c) Chemical transfection
d) Electroporation
e) Microinjection
44. What is the purpose of pasteurization in milk?
a) To destroy most of the pathogenic microorganism disease-causing bacteria ✅
b) To check the growth of bacteria
c) To check the adulteration in milk
d) To increase the acidity of milk
e) To reduce the size of fat globules
45. In the adiabatic dehumidification process, when humid air passes through a desiccated cell or material then the humidity of the material______ and temperature______?
a) Increase, decrease
b) Increase, Increase
c) Decrease, Increase ✅
d) Decrease, decrease
e) None of these
46. In Tamilnadu, catamarans made up of 3-5 logs are in pattern and a specialized type made of 7 logs catamaran or kolamaram are used for catching flying fish. It’s termed?
a) Catamaran
b) Coromandel ✅
c) Andra type
d) Dhingra
e) None of these
47. The organism that can withstand a wider range of salinity is known as an?
a) Stenohaline
b) Euryhaline ✅
c) Oligohaline
d) Estuarine
e) None of these
48. Main reason for seed dormancy is?
a) Immature embryo ✅
b) Physical cracking
c) Presence of pathogen
d) Distorted seed coat
e) Fungal growth
49. Loans against pledge hypothecation of agriculture produce (including warehouse receipts) for a period not exceeding 12 months subject to limit up to against NWRs/ENWRS?
a) 75 Lakh ✅
b) 50 Lakh
c) 25 Lakh
d) 100 Lakh
e) None of these
50. Imperfectly developed female unable to reproduce but possess all the maternal instinct & also defense mechanism has been developed and does the work for colony welfare?
a) Queen bee
b) Worker bee ✅
c) Drone
d) Solitary bee
e) None of these
51. Growing plants out from forest area where it was not present before and whose purpose is to increase the area under forest is known as?
a) Farm Forestry
b) Extension forestry ✅
c) Recreational forestry
d) Mixed forestry
e) Agroforestry
52. Fish having lungs as labyrinths?
a) Rohu
b) Catla
c) Mrigal
d) Gourami ✅
e) None of these
54. Advance pregnancy symptoms in cattle when an embryo is out?
a) Lapsing of uterus and vagina ✅
b) Anoestrus
c) Sexual impurities
d) Oestrus
e) Silent oestrus
55. Curled toe paralysis in chicken due to?
a) Vita-B1
b) Vit-B2 ✅
c) Vit.-E
d) Vit- A
e) None of these
56. Muga silk is reared on?
a) Som & Soalu ✅
b) Castor
c) Arjun
d) Shorea robusta
e) Terminalia tomentose
57. When the plant is propagated by small tissue or part of the plant is termed a?
a) Sexual propagation
b) Micropropagation ✅
c) Hybridization
d) Somatic hybridization
e) None of these
58. Which among the following is the highest priority brackish water fish has a high growth rate and can tolerate fluctuation in temperature?
a) White shrimp ✅
b) Tiger shrimp
c) Milkfish
d) Prawn
e) Lobster
59. Which of the following is a bacterial infectious disease of fishery Disintegrating fins, blood on edges of fins, fin rays become brittle and lead to fin and tail rot?
a) Red pest
b) Dropsy
c) Mouth fungus
d) Tail and fin rot ✅
e) Velvet
60. Method of drainage that is used in high water table areas, hilly areas, and under the surface?
a) Mole drainage
b) Tile drainage ✅
c) Gravity outlet
d) Open channel
e) None of these
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