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Improvement in Food Resources · MP Board (MPBSE) STD 9 (Madhya Pradesh - English Medium). 186 questions.

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MCQ 11 Mark
Which of the following is incorrect for green manure?
  • A
    It supplies organic matter.
  • B
    It supplies nitrogen.
  • C
    It prevents soil erosion.
  • ✓
    It allows leaching.
Answer
Correct option: D.
It allows leaching.
Leaching is not possible in case of manure as it is a bulky substance and nutrients take time to get absorbed to soil.
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MCQ 21 Mark
Which of the following are Indian cattle$?$
  1. Bos indicus.
  2. Bos domestica.
  3. Bos bubalis.
  4. Bos vulgaris.
  • A
    $(i)$ and $(iii).$
  • B
    $(i)$ and $(ii).$
  • C
    $(ii)$ and $(iii).$
  • ✓
    $(iii)$ and $(iv).$
Answer
Correct option: D.
$(iii)$ and $(iv).$
Bos indicus or zebu or humped cattle is Indian breed.
Bos domestica is currently found in Africa, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, Parts of North America and South America. Bos bubalis wild water buffalo or Bos bubalis occur in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand and Cambodia.
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MCQ 31 Mark
Why is dwarfness preferred in cereal crops?
  • A
    They would provide more yield
  • ✓
    They would consume less minerals
  • C
    They would be resistant to pests
  • D
    All of the above
Answer
Correct option: B.
They would consume less minerals
Tallness and profuse branching are desirable characters for fodder crops as they would provide more food for cattle. Dwarfness is desired in cereals such as wheat and rice so that less minerals are consumed by the plant.
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MCQ 41 Mark
Milk does not provide:
  • A
    Vitamin $A$ and $D.$
  • B
    Carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
  • C
    Minerals such as phosphorus and calcium.
  • ✓
    Iron.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Iron.
Milk is a complete food in itself. However it does not contains iron.
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MCQ 61 Mark
The botanical name of Egyptian clover is:
  • A
    Crotalaria Juncea.
  • B
    Lens culinaris.
  • ✓
    Trifolium alexandrium.
  • D
    Sesbania aculeate.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Trifolium alexandrium.
Egyptian clover is an annual clover. It is used as fodder for cattles and buff.
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MCQ 71 Mark
Find out the correct sentence about manure:
  1. Manure contains large quantities of organic matter and small quantities of nutrients.
  2. It increases the water holding capacity of sandy soil.
  3. It helps in draining out of excess of water from clayey soil.
  4. Its excessive use pollutes environment because it is made of animal excretory waste.
  • A
    $(i)$ and $(iii).$
  • ✓
    $(i)$ and $(ii).$
  • C
    $(ii)$ and $(iii).$
  • D
    $(iii)$ and $(iv).$
Answer
Correct option: B.
$(i)$ and $(ii).$
Manure improves water holding capacity of soil and thus option $'iii ’$ is incorrect. Manure is environment friendly hence option $'iv ’$ is incorrect.
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MCQ 81 Mark
Find out the wrong statement from the following:
  • A
    White revolution is meant for increase in milk production.
  • B
    Blue revolution is meant for increase in fish production.
  • C
    Increasing food production without compromising with environment quality is.
  • ✓
    None of the above.
Answer
Correct option: D.
None of the above.
All the above statement are true. White revolution refers to increase in milk production, Blue revolution means increase in fish production and sustainable agriculture is food production with compromising with environment quality.
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MCQ 91 Mark
Which is the most important source of food and fodder?
  • A
    Algae
  • B
    Fungi
  • C
    Lichen
  • ✓
    Cereal
Answer
Correct option: D.
Cereal
The important and most abundant source of food and fodder for man and animals is cereal. It provides major source of nutrients like carbohydrates and protein.
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MCQ 101 Mark
The technique used to obtain variety with high yield and other desirable characters is:
  • A
    Intraduction
  • B
    Selection
  • ✓
    Hybridization
  • D
    Both $(a)$ and $(b).$
Answer
Correct option: C.
Hybridization

 Hybridization has been one of the best practices that is used for obtaining the best progeny of plant species.

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MCQ 111 Mark
The botanical name of lentil is:
  • A
    Crotalaria Juncea.
  • ✓
    Lens culinaris.
  • C
    Trifolium Alexandrium.
  • D
    Sesbania aculeate.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Lens culinaris.
Lentil is a common term used for pulses and is from legume family. Its seeds grows in pod.
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MCQ 121 Mark
The National Dairy Development Board $(\text{NDDB})$ designed and implemented the world’s largest dairy development programme, called “Operation Flood”, which came out to be the reason behind White Revolution in India. Can you name the man who is known as the Father of White Revolution?
  • A
    Dr. G Nammalvar
  • B
    Abdul Rashid
  • C
    Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose
  • ✓
    Dr. V. Kurien
Answer
Correct option: D.
Dr. V. Kurien
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MCQ 131 Mark
If crop rotation is done properly then:
  • ✓
    Two or three crops can be grown in a year with good harvests.
  • B
    Three or four crops can be grown in a year with good harvests.
  • C
    Four or five crops can be grown in a year with good harvest.
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Two or three crops can be grown in a year with good harvests.
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MCQ 141 Mark
Crop rotation is used by farmers to increase:
  • A
    Nitrogen content of the soil
  • B
    Organic content of soil
  • C
    Community area
  • ✓
    Soil fertility
Answer
Correct option: D.
Soil fertility
Crop rotation is the practice of growing different crops in succession on a piece of land to avoid depletion of a particular type of nutrient from the soil and to regain its fertility. It also helps in controlling weeds, pests, and diseases.
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MCQ 151 Mark
Appropriate $..........$ can prevent the occurrence of infectious diseases and reduce the loss of poultry during an outbreak of diseases:
  • A
    Weight
  • B
    Food
  • ✓
    Vaccination
  • D
    None of the above
Answer
Correct option: C.
Vaccination
Vaccination is the preventive measures of infections that stimulate the immune system of the animals. Thus, an appropriate vaccination can prevent the occurrence of infectious diseases and reduce the loss of poultry during an outbreak of diseases.
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MCQ 161 Mark
Which among the following leads to an increase in ground water levels?
  • ✓
    Check$-$dams
  • B
    Canals
  • C
    River Lift System
  • D
    Tanks
Answer
Correct option: A.
Check$-$dams
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MCQ 171 Mark
Cereals largely fulfils which of the following energy requirement?
  • A
    Proteins
  • ✓
    Carbohydrates
  • C
    Fats
  • D
    Minerals
Answer
Correct option: B.
Carbohydrates
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MCQ 181 Mark
The principal cereal crop of India is:
  • A
    Wheat
  • ✓
    Rice
  • C
    Maize
  • D
    Sorghum
Answer
Correct option: B.
Rice
The main cereal crop rice is grown in maximum parts of India. Both the exotic and indigenous breeds are grown in India.
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MCQ 191 Mark
Preventive and control measures adopted for storage of grains include.
  • A
    Strict cleaning.
  • B
    Proper disjoining.
  • C
    Fumigation.
  • ✓
    All the above.
Answer
Correct option: D.
All the above.
Grain storage is a continuous process and is organised. It is the mix and match of all the techniques. Therefore cleaning, disjoining and fumigation are part of the process of grain storage.
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MCQ 201 Mark
Increase in oil production is:
  • A
    Golden revolution.
  • ✓
    Yellow revolution.
  • C
    White revolution.
  • D
    Blue revolution.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Yellow revolution.
Yellow revolution means following the practices in agriculture that lead to higher levels of production.
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MCQ 211 Mark
Identify the food source that yields carbohydrates:
  • A
    Black gram
  • B
    Mustard seed
  • ✓
    Rice
  • D
    All of these
Answer
Correct option: C.
Rice
Cereals such as rice and wheat are excellent sources of carbohydrates.
Black grams are pulses that are rich in proteins.
Oil seeds such as mustards are fat sources.
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MCQ 221 Mark
The first experiment in artificial insemination was performed by:
  • A
    Aristotle
  • B
    Berzelius
  • ✓
    Spallanzani
  • D
    Linnaeus
Answer
Correct option: C.
Spallanzani
Lazzaro Spallanzani was an Italian Catholic priest, biologist and physiologist who first did artificical insemination on dog.
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MCQ 231 Mark
Fertilizers are said to be different from manures, as they are prepared in $......:$
  • ✓
    Factory
  • B
    Naturally
  • C
    Original
  • D
    None of the above
Answer
Correct option: A.
Factory
Fertilizers are inorganic salts, rich in particular nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. Manure is an organic substance obtained from the decomposition of plant or animal wastes. Fertilizers are produced in factories, whereas manures are prepared in fields.
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MCQ 241 Mark
Which of the following is gaseous fumigant$?$
  • A
    $DDT.$
  • B
    Aluminium phosphide.
  • C
    Ethylene dichloride.
  • ✓
    Methyl bromide.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Methyl bromide.

Methyl bromide is a fumigant used against a wide variety of pests including spiders, mites, fungi, plants, insects, nematodes, and rodents. Farmers use methyl bromide primarily to treat soil to kill nematodes, fungi, and weeds.

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MCQ 251 Mark
What will improve the quantity of food production?
  • A
    Pesticides
  • B
    Synthetic hormones
  • C
    Education and guidance for consumers
  • ✓
    Optimum use of land for agriculture
Answer
Correct option: D.
Optimum use of land for agriculture
Optimum use of land for agriculture is the best way to improve the quanity of food production.
Cultivating the soil according to the crop pattern, proper utilization of land to get the best yield, practicing crop rotation, and getting maximum yield by making full use of agricultural land.
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MCQ 261 Mark
'Organic farming’ does not include:
  • A
    Green manures.
  • ✓
    Chemical fertilizers.
  • C
    Crop rotantion.
  • D
    Compost and farmyard manures.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Chemical fertilizers.
Chemical fertilizers have chemicals and hence use of chemicals is not done in organic farming.
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MCQ 271 Mark
Mixed cropping ______:
  • A
    Reduces risk
  • B
    Gives some insurance against failure of one of the crop
  • ✓
    Both options $A$ and $B$ are correct
  • D
    None of these
Answer
Correct option: C.
Both options $A$ and $B$ are correct

Mixed cropping is growing two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land, for example, wheat $+$ gram, or wheat $+$ mustard, or groundnut $+$ sunflower.
This reduces risk and gives some insurance against failure of one of the crops.

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MCQ 281 Mark
Which of the following have been artificially selected?
  • A
    Cabbage
  • B
    Cauliflower
  • C
    Broccoli
  • ✓
    All of these.
Answer
Correct option: D.
All of these.
All the above mentioned vegetable like broccoli, Cauliflower and Cabbage have been artificially selected and bred for maximum yield.
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MCQ 291 Mark
Which of the following is associated with egg production?
  • A
    White revolution
  • B
    Yellow revolution
  • ✓
    Silver revolution
  • D
    Green revolution
Answer
Correct option: C.
Silver revolution
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MCQ 301 Mark
Growing different crops in the same field in a pre$-$planned succession, to improve the quality and quantity of the crop yield and maintain the fertility of soil is known as:
  • A
    Crop rotation
  • ✓
    Plant breeding
  • C
    Intercropping
  • D
    Crop management
Answer
Correct option: B.
Plant breeding
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MCQ 311 Mark
Find out the correct sentence:
  1. Hybridisation means crossing between genetically dissimilar plants.
  2. Cross between two varieties is called as inter specific hybridisation.
  3. Introducing genes of desired character into a plant gives genetically modified crop.
  4. Cross between plants of two species is called as inter varietal hybridisation.
  • A
    $(i)$ and $(iii).$
  • B
    $(ii)$ and $(iv)$.
  • C
    $(ii)$ and $(iii).$
  • ✓
    $(iii)$ and $(iv).$
Answer
Correct option: D.
$(iii)$ and $(iv).$
The crossing between genetically unidentical plants to produce a new variety, i.e., hybrid is called hybridisation. Crossing may be between two different varieties $($intra varietal cross breeding$)$, between two different species of some genus $($interspecific cross breeding$)$ and between different genera $($intergeneric cross breeding$).$
Genetically, modified crops can be produced by insertion of genes with desired traits by the process of hybridisation.
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MCQ 321 Mark
The main canal is divided into branch canals having further distributaries to $.......$ fields.
  • A
    Composting
  • B
    Farming
  • ✓
    Irrigate
  • D
    All of the above
Answer
Correct option: C.
Irrigate
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MCQ 331 Mark
All animals are:
  • A
    Parasitic
  • B
    Saprophytic
  • C
    Autotrophic
  • ✓
    Heterotrophic
Answer
Correct option: D.
Heterotrophic
The animals eat plant and animal products for their survival and are thus heterotrophic in nature.
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MCQ 341 Mark
Dwarfness in cereals is a desirable agronomic trait because:
  • ✓
    Such plants consume less nutrients.
  • B
    They are easy to harvest.
  • C
    They give good fodder to cattles.
  • D
    They show disease$-$resistance.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Such plants consume less nutrients.
Dwarfness is desired in cereals, so that less nutrients are consumed by these crops.
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MCQ 351 Mark
Layers continue to produce eggs upto:
  • A
    $350$ days
  • B
    $425$ days
  • ✓
    $500$ days
  • D
    $600$ days
Answer
Correct option: C.
$500$ days
$500$ days
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MCQ 361 Mark
Oil seeds such as sesame and mustard are good sources of:
  • A
    Carbohydrate
  • B
    Proteins
  • C
    Minerals
  • ✓
    Fats
Answer
Correct option: D.
Fats
Oil seeds including soyabean, ground nut, sesame, castor, mustard, linseed and sunflower provide us with necessary fats.
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MCQ 371 Mark
Which one is not a source of carbohydrate?
  • A
    Rice.
  • ✓
    Millets.
  • C
    Sorghum.
  • D
    Gram.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Millets.
Cereals like wheat, rice, maize, barley, sorghum, etc., are rich source of carbohydrates. Pulses include legumes such as chick pea, gram $($chana$),$ pea $($matar$),$ black gram $($urad$),$ green gram $($moong$),$ pigeon pea $($arhar$),$ cow pea $($lobia$)$ and lentil $($masoor$)$ are rich sources of proteins.
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MCQ 381 Mark
Cattles should be sheltered under well$-$ventilated roofed sheds that protect them from $......:$
  • A
    Rain
  • B
    Heat
  • C
    Cold
  • ✓
    All of the above
Answer
Correct option: D.
All of the above
Proper shelter facilities should be there for the cattle, the shelter should be well$-$ventilated roofed sheds to protect them from heat, cold, and rain.
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MCQ 391 Mark
The growing of $......$ crops on a piece of land in a pre$-$planned succession is known as crop rotation:
  • A
    Similar
  • ✓
    Different
  • C
    No change occur
  • D
    Only cereals are sown
Answer
Correct option: B.
Different
Crop rotation is a practice of growing different crops in succession on the same land to preserve the productivity of the soil.
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MCQ 401 Mark
Application of nitrogenous manure to a plant causes.
  • ✓
    Vigorous vegetative growth.
  • B
    Early flowering.
  • C
    Early fruiting.
  • D
    Growth retardation due to toxicity of NH$_3$.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Vigorous vegetative growth.
A.   Vigorous vegetative growth.
Explanation:
When nitrogenous manure is applied to plant plants grow at high rate and have high yield also.
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MCQ 411 Mark
Gundhi bug is a pest of:
  • A
    Sugarcane
  • B
    Cotton
  • ✓
    Rice
  • D
    Wheat
Answer
Correct option: C.
Rice
Rice pest Gundhi bug eats away the sap of the rice plant and destroys it.
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MCQ 421 Mark
Who is the father of Green Revolution in the World?
  • ✓
    Norman Borlaug
  • B
    M.S Swaminathan
  • C
    Raj Krishna
  • D
    R.K.V Rao
Answer
Correct option: A.
Norman Borlaug
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MCQ 431 Mark
In poultry farms, broilers are raised for their:
  • A
    Eggs
  • B
    Both eggs and meat
  • ✓
    Meat
  • D
    Neither eggs nor meat
Answer
Correct option: C.
Meat
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MCQ 441 Mark
Which of the following is not a type of biotic stress?
  • A
    Diseases
  • B
    Insect
  • ✓
    Frost
  • D
    Nematodes
Answer
Correct option: C.
Frost
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MCQ 451 Mark
Berseem and Sudan grass are grown to be used as:
  • A
    Food for humans
  • ✓
    Food for livestock
  • C
    Manure
  • D
    Green manure
Answer
Correct option: B.
Food for livestock
Fodder crops like berseem, oats or sudan grass are raised as food for the livestock in animal husbandry.
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MCQ 461 Mark
Growing different crops in the same field in a pre planned succession is:
  • A
    Crop management.
  • B
    Crop rotation.
  • C
    Intercropping.
  • ✓
    Plant breeding.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Plant breeding.
Plant breeding enables maximum production in the field.
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MCQ 471 Mark
Which of the following states has the highest percentage of irrigated land$?$
  • A
    Haryana
  • ✓
    Punjab
  • C
    Rajasthan
  • D
    Himachal Pradesh
Answer
Correct option: B.
Punjab

Punjab leads the country's States and $UT$ s in terms of land under irrigation, with $98.8$ per cent of its crop land under irrigation. Other major states where irrigation is done by canals are Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Bihar.

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MCQ 481 Mark
Which one of the following species of honey bee is an Italian species?
  • A
    Apis dorsata.
  • B
    Apis florae.
  • C
    Apis cerana indica.
  • ✓
    Apis mellifera.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Apis mellifera.
Both indigenous and exotic varieties of honey bees are used for commercial production of honey in India.
  1. Indigenous varieties:
Apis cerona indica F. $($Indian honey bee$).$
Apis dorsata F. $($Rock bee$).$
Apis florae F. $($Little bee$).$
  1. Exotic varieties:
Apis mellifera $($European or Italian bee$).$
Apis adomsoni $($South African bee$).$
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MCQ 491 Mark
The jersey bull used for crossbreeding is exotic variety from:
  • ✓
    England
  • B
    Scotland
  • C
    Switzerland
  • D
    Holland
Answer
Correct option: A.
England
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MCQ 501 Mark
The method of growing different crops alternatively on same piece of land is called $.....:$
  • A
    Mixed cropping
  • B
    Multiple cropping
  • ✓
    Rotation cropping
  • D
    Inter cropping
Answer
Correct option: C.
Rotation cropping
The method of growing different crops alternatively on same piece of land is called rotation cropping. This helps in maintaining or improving the fertility of soil.
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