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❖ Total Geographical Area of the country- 329 Mha
❖ Net sown area of the country- 140 Mha (42.57% of total area)
❖ Gross sown area of the country- 195 Mha
❖ Barren land area in the country- 41 Mha
❖ Degraded land area in the country- 63.85 Mha
❖ Waste land area in the country- 178 Mha
❖ Total Forest area in the country- 70.82 Mha (21.54% of total geographical area)
❖ State with highest forest area in the country is- Madhya Pradesh, followed by Arunachal
Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
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❖ For maintaining ecological balance percentage of the land area should be under forest is-
33
❖ Irrigated area in India- 64.7 Mha (2018)
❖ Government of India declared “2018” as- National year of Millets
❖ India is the largest producer of Millets in world, harvesting about 11 million tones and
accounts for 40 percent of the world’s output.
❖ Contribution of Livestock to National GDP is- 4.5%
❖ Contribution of Livestock to Total Agricultural GDP- 27%
❖ The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2019 as the- International Year of
Indigenous Languages.
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❖ Power house of Nutrients/Nutri-Cereals/Climate resilient crops are – Millets
❖ Cropping Intensity of India is – 136%
❖ Total number of KVKs at present is- 706 (as of MAY,2019)
❖ KVKs are under the administration control of- DDG of Agricultural extension
❖ For effective functioning and monitoring of KVKs, KVKs are divided into- 11 ATARI
Zones saarthi education Aurangabad
❖ Highest Number of KVKs are in – Zone 3 (U.P.)
❖ Acronym of ATARI –Agricultural Technology Application Research Institutes
(ATARIs formerly called as Zonal Project Directorates)
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❖ Growth rate of Agriculture sector during 2017-18 is- 2.4%
❖ Sampoorna Grammeen Rojgar Yojna was started in the year of 2001
❖ FCI was started in 1970
❖ FISCAL commission was appointed in 1949
❖ Multiple Cropping Programming was Started in 1966
❖ First irrigation commission was appointed in 1901
❖ first deptt of agriculture was established in 1881
❖ the extension work must be based on the-Need and interest of people
❖ Father of Extension- J paul Leagons
❖ father of Sociology- August Commte
❖ National agricultural innovation project was stared in — 2005
❖ Total number of national bureaux are — six
❖ Formula of coefficient of variance is-SD/Mean x 100
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❖ t test is generally used, when sample size is 30
❖ The correlation coefficient lies between – l to + I
❖ The experimental design, which simultaneously control the variation in two directions is known as LSD
❖ The basic principles of field experimentation-I Replication 2 Randomized 3 Local control
❖ The technique of analysis of variance was developed by-R.A. Fisher
❖ If fertility gradient of land is in two directions, the experimental design will be-Latin Square design
❖ the most commonly used measure of control tendency is-Arithmetic mean
❖ Cumulative frequency is also known as — Ogive
❖ The term ‘ Kurtosis ‘ was given by-Karl Pearon (1906)
❖ Laplace used the normal distribution in-Analysis of errors of experiments
❖ the important method of least squares was introduced by-Legendre in 1805
❖ The name ” Normal distribution ” was coined independently by-Peirce Galton and Lexix, (1875)
❖ Normal distribution is also known as-Law of error, law of facility of error, lapace’s seconf law, gaussion law etc.
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❖ Generalize mean is also known as-Power mean or Holder mean
❖ The standard deviation is widely used measure of-Variability or disperson
❖ The term standard deviation was first used by-Karl Pearson in 1894
❖ if mean, medium and mode is equal, then skewness will be — zero
❖ Correlation’s are useful because they can indicate a-Predictive relationship
❖ which ANOVA is used when the experimenter want to study the effects of two or more treatment variables-Factorial ANOVA
❖ Which ANOVA is used when the subjects are subjects to repeated measures, in which the same subjects are used for each treatment-Two- Way Anova
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❖ The completely randomized design is considered to be most useful in situation where
❖ The experimental units are homogeneous
❖ The experimental are small such as Laboratory experiments
❖ Some experimental units are likely to be destroyed
❖ In field experiments the commonly used design is — RBD
❖ For chi- square test, the minimum sample size should be — 50
❖ Define biometry-It deals with observation with living thing
❖ mean, median and mode are equal in-normal distribution
❖ most frequent number in a data set, is known as-mode
❖ the well-known example of skewed distribution is-Personal wealth
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1) Rice inflorescenec – panicle
2) Magnetic field unit.—Tesla
3) C3plant -Wheat
4)Rh factor related human disease —– erythroblastosis
5) Father of agronomy – peter decresezi
6) Tea croping suitable temperature
7) In tea crop which sprayer is used
8) Cole crop – cabbage
9) Exotic goat — Angora
10) Wheat 1 irrigation—- CRI
11) cell wall part — pasmodesmata
12) Groundnut oil % __46-51 %
13) Newtons first law of motion
14) Rice – foundation seed isolation distance
15)Chick-pea – early variety 105-110 days
16) False smut — Ustilaginoidea virens
17) TRYSEM scheme launch year– 1979
18)Mango HDP root stock
19) Dryland farming — less than 750 mm
20) Drougt resistant – argemone maxicana
❖ Decomposition of manures is allowed to reduce the wide C:N ratio to about 25:1.
❖ The N fraction of FVM is mainly given by “Urine”.
❖ Old and sick animals produce FYM rich in nutrients.
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❖ “Byre system of collection” is followed in government farms and in advanced countries to
collect FYM.
❖Composting: Converting organic materials into manure in a short time by accelerating
fermentative.
❖ C 3 plants –
Rice , wheat , cotton , soyaben etc
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❖ C 4 plants –
In these plants the primary product of carbon fixation is 4 carbon compound .
Sorghum , maize , sugarcane , bajra , ammranthus etc.
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❖ crassulacean acid metabolism ( CAM ) plants
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