Sardar Krushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural Uiversity 2010 B.Sc Agriculture for competitive -paper22

The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 came into force in

(a) 1954 (b) 1955 (c) 1956 (d) 1957

The recommended trap crop for IPM of diamondback moth on cabbage is

(a) Radish (b) Carrot (c) Indian mustard (d) Cotton

The recommended trap crop for IPM of tomato fruit borer is

(a) Brinjal (b) African marigold

(c) Potato (d) Cucurbits

Clipping off the top of rice seedlings containing immature stages of insects reduces the carry over of infestation of

(a) Rice hispa (b) Whitebacked planthopper

(c) Green leafhopper (d) Rice bug

Sticky bands around tree trunks provide protection against

(a) Citrus psylla (b) Mango mealy bug

(c) Mango hopper (d) Apple root borer

The first successful attempt to utilize biological control involved the importation of

(a) Ladybird beetle (b) Aphelinus spp.

(c) Vedalia beetle (d) Apanteles spp.

The All India Coordinated Research Project on Biological Control of Crop Pests and Weeds (AICRPBC) was started in

(a) 1967 (b) 1977 (c) 1980 (d) 1985

The Project Directorate of Biological Control (PDBC) came into being in

(a) 1963 (b) 1970 (c) 1983 (d) 1993

The cassava mealy bug in Africa was successfully controlled by importation and augmentation of

(a) Cyrtorhinus lividipennis (Reuter)

(b) Cryptolaemus montrouzieriMulsant

(c) Epidinocarsis lopezi (De Santis)

(d) Aphelinus mali (Haldeman)

San Jose scale has been successfully controlled in India by the importation of

(a) Aphelinus mali (Haldeman)

(b) Encarsia perniciosi (Tower)

(c) Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus

(d) Trichogramma chilonis Ishii

The beetle, Zygogramma bicolorata Pallinter, introduced for the control of congress grass, started feeding on

(a) Cauliflower (b) Mustard

(c) Sunflower (d) Soybean

A strain of Trichogramma chilonis Ishii has been developed in India which is resistant to

(a) Endosulfan (b) Malathion

(c) Carbaryl (d) Carbofuran

The green lacewing is a parasitoid of

(a) Beetles (b) Grasshoppers

(c) Aphids (d) Cockroaches

The first record of an insect disease caused by a fungal pathogen is that of

(a) Beauveria bassiana (b) Verticillium lecanii

(c) Cephalosporium lecanii (d) Metarrhizium anisopliae

Bacillus thuringiensiswas first isolated from diseased larvae of

(a) Silkworm (b) Honey bee

(c) American bollworm (d) Spruce budworm

Bacillus papillae causes milky disease in

(a) Cockchafer beetle (b) Japanese beetle

(c) Red flour beetle (d) Ber beetle

The commercial product 'Doom' has been developed from a

(a) Protozoan (b) Fungus

(c) Virus (d) Bacterium

The most successful field use of a baculovirus on global scale has been made for the control of

(a) Diamondback moth (b) Cabbage caterpillar

(c) Soybean caterpillar (d) Pink bollworm

The first commercial formulation of NPV was

(a) Gypchek (b) Elcar (c) Virin- HS (d) Spodopterin

The share of microbial pesticides in the total world pesticide market is

(a) 1-2% (b) 5-6% (c) 8-10% (d) 12-15%