FCI Agriculture Quiz 12 |

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Q1. The symbol used for graded agriculture produce is

A. ISI

B. FSSCI

C. AGMARK

D. BSI

E. None of these

Explanation:- AGMARK is a certification mark employed on agricultural products in India, assuring that they conform to a set of standards approved by the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection an attached Office of the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare under the Ministry of Agricultural & Farmers Welfare.

Q2. Market guided by rules and regulations is called?

A. Financial market

B. Regulated market

C. Black market

D. Auction market

E. None of these

Explanation:- A regulated market is a market over which government bodies or, less commonly, industry or labor groups, exert a level of oversight and control.

Q3. Central “AGMARK” laboratory is located at

A. Mumbai

B. Nagpur

C. Pune

D. Jaipur

E. None of these

Explanation:- Central Agmark Laboratory, Nagpur.

Q4. National Institute of Agriculture Marketing is located at

A. New Delhi

B. Hyderabad

C. Jaipur

D. Lucknow

E. None of these

Explanation:- National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM) is located in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Q5. Which agencies engaged in constructing large scale warehouse at the national level is

A. Food Corporation of India

B. Central Warehouse Corporation

C. Co-operative Societies

D. Primary Agriculture Co-operative Societies

E. None of these

Explanation:- Central Warehousing Corporation is a statutory body which was established under ‘The Warehousing Corporations Act, 1962.

Q6. Risk in agriculture is minimum in

A. Specialized farming

B. Diversified farming

C. Mixed farming

D. Intensive farming

E. None of these

Explanation:- Diversified farming systems are a set of methods and tools developed to produce food sustainably by leveraging ecological diversity at plot, field, and landscape scales.

Q7. The most important component of farm management is

A. Heavy farm equipment

B. Livestock

C. Farm budgeting

D. Labour cost

E. None of these

Explanation:- It refers to preparing a budget for the farm as a whole. Complete budgeting considers all the crops, livestock, methods of production, and aspects of marketing in consolidated form and estimates costs and returns for the farm as a whole.

Q8. Storage function create which utility

A. Place utility

B. Form utility

C. Time utility

D. Possession utility

E. None of these

Explanation:- Time Utility is providing the consumer his desired goods at the time when he requires them.

Q9. The term “Operational Holding” means

A. Total land area owned by a farmer

B. Total cropped areas cultivated by a farmer

C. Net land areas cultivated by a farmer

D. Total land leased by a farmer

E. None of these

Explanation:- An operational holding is defined as “all land, which is used wholly or partly for agricultural production and is operated as one technical unit by one person alone or with others without regard to title, legal form, size or location”.

Q10. Production of only home consumptions is

A. Subsistence farming

B. Sustainable farming

C. Home farming

D. Truck farming

E. None of these

Explanation:- The practice of growing crops and raising livestock sufficient only for one’s own use, without any surplus for trade.

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