✅Father of Extension in India – K. N. Singh
✅First agri clinic was set up at – Vapi (Gujarat) (2001)
✅First Indian agricultural census Conducted in which year – 1970-71
✅India’s first animal census start in – 1919-20
✅Gurgaon Project (1920) was started by – Mr. F.L. Brayne
✅Etawah Pilot Project (1948) was initiated by – Albert Mayer
✅Cooperative Movement (1904) was initiated by – F. Nicholson
✅Institute of rural management is located at – Anand (Gujarat)
✅National Agricultural Insurance scheme was started in year – 1999
✅Community Development (CDP) was started on – 2nd Oct, 1952
✅National Agricultural Research Project(NARP) was started in – 1980
✅National Agricultural Technology Project(NATP) – 1999 Project kalpataru
✅Magazine “Extension digest” published from –MANAGE, Hyderabad
✅Swaran Jyanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana(SGSY) – 1999
✅India’s First Biotech Crop Technology approved for commercialization in year – 2002
✅The basic unit of development under IRDP is – Family
✅ KVK is recommended by Mohan Singh Mehta Committee and started in – Pondicherry, TNAU in 1974
✅The basic unit of rural society is – Village
✅Puppet show are included in – Audio-visual aid.
✅High Yielding Varietal Programme (HYVP) was started on – 1966-67
✅Who is the father of plant pathology – Heinrich Anton de Bary
✅Which method used for producing Virus free plant – Meristem culture
✅bacteria leaf blight of rice caused by – Xanthomonas oryzae
✅Loose smut of wheat is – Internally seed borne
✅ Sugarcane rust is caused by – Puccinia eriathi
✅Tungro disease of rice is spread by – Nephotettix virescens
✅Red rot of sugarcane is caused by – Collectorichum falcatum
✅Disease also known as – Killer
✅Disease of Wheat” is – Black/ Stem rust
✅White rust of crucifers is caused by – Albugo candida
✅Leaf blight of cotton is caused by – Alternaria macrospora
✅Phyllody disease of Sesame spread by – Leaf hopper
✅Which is major storage fungi that affects on food grain – Aspergillus
✅Buck eye rot is disease of which crop – Tomato
✅Fungi which can grow only on living host plant are called – Obligate parasite
✅Association of fungi with root of higher plants is known as – Mycorrhiza.
✅Which is primary source of infection green ear disease of Bajra – Soil and seed
✅Which rice disease responsible for Bengal famine in 1943 – Brown leaf spot
✅The term “Organic’ was first used by Northbourne (1940) is his book ‘Look to the Land.
✅Australia is the leading organic farming country in the world.
✅Sikkim is the leading organic farming state in the India.
✅Biodynamic farming and natures farming are the method of organic farming.
✅Rudolf Steiner is the father of biodynamic farming
✅In India organic foods are produced as per standard of NSOP.
✅NSOP stands for National Standard for Organic Production.
✅NAB (National Accreditation Body) is the Apex body of organic certification in India.
✅National centre for organic farming (NCOF) is located at Ghaziabad, U.P.
✅National project on organic farming (NPOF) started in year 2004.
✅Association for Promotion of Organic Products (APOP) is located at Bangalore.
✅Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana was launched in – 2007
✅Little leaf in cotton is due to deficiency of – Mn
✅Botanical name of Dent corn – Zea mays var. indentata
✅Grapevine fan leaf virus is transmitted by nematode – Xiphinema index
✅Queen of oilseeds – Sesame
✅Aerobic free living nitrogen fixing microorganism is – Azotobacter
✅Ozone day – Sept 16
✅Dimecron is a trade name of – Phosphamidon
✅Scarification in groundnut is caused by _ pest – Termite
✅Guttation occurs normally at – Night
✅MRL expand – Maximum Residue Limit
✅credit was provided for the purchase of inputs like seeds, fertilizers, etc. – Short term
✅World Heritage day – April 18
✅Downward movement of water in saturated soil is known as – Percolation
✅Which disease is known as Cancer of wheat – Karnal bunt
✅Passing of rope on rice crop controls _ pest – Caseworm
✅National Seed Policy was formulated in – 2002
✅____ bacteria enters through the site of injury of red cotton bug and stains the fibre – Nematospora gossypii
✅Depth of water required by a crop is known as – Delta
✅Central Institute of Cotton Research is located at – Nagpur
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