ICAR AIEEA-PG Agri Supply Chain & Logistics Management: practice questions

1 · Traditional and modern agri supply chains · easy

In an agri-food supply chain, which flow typically moves upstream from consumer towards farmer?

1. Physical produce
2. Money (payments)
3. Packaged finished goods
4. Refrigerated containers (reefers) of produce

2 · Traditional and modern agri supply chains · medium

Which is a recognised strength of traditional agricultural marketing chains compared with modern organised chains?

1. They buy any quantity and quality and often extend credit to farmers
2. They usually use pre-cooling and refrigerated transport as standard
3. They pass point-of-sale data back to farmers
4. They provide full lot-level traceability to the consumer

3 · Traditional and modern agri supply chains · easy

India's e-NAM is best described as

1. a warehouse receipt registration authority for stored grain
2. a cold-chain subsidy scheme for fruit and vegetable pack-houses
3. a crop insurance portal for claims on yield loss
4. an electronic trading platform linking regulated markets

4 · Contract and corporate farming as procurement · easy

In the nucleus estate model of contract farming, the sponsoring company

1. has only verbal, seasonal agreements with farmers and no land of its own
2. contracts farmers only through an independent intermediary
3. runs its own estate and also contracts surrounding outgrowers
4. shares roles equally with a government agency and a farmer organisation

5 · Contract and corporate farming as procurement · medium

Side-selling in contract farming refers to

1. the buyer rejecting produce on quality grounds, usually when market prices fall
2. farmers selling contracted produce to other buyers, often when spot prices are higher
3. farmers selling the seed and fertiliser supplied under the contract to neighbouring growers for cash
4. a processor selling by-products such as peel and seed to a third party

6 · Contract and corporate farming as procurement · easy

Which organisational model of contract farming is typical of a sugar mill contracting large numbers of cane growers with tight quality and harvest scheduling?

1. Intermediary model
2. Informal model
3. Centralised model
4. Multipartite model

7 · Distribution strategies and pool distribution · medium

A milk-collection vehicle that follows a fixed route picking up from several village collection centres and delivering to one chilling plant is an example of

1. a milk run
2. reverse logistics
3. drop-shipping
4. a bonded warehouse

8 · Warehousing in the supply chain · easy

The stock-rotation rule appropriate for perishable and date-marked foods in a warehouse is

1. last-in, first-out (LIFO)
2. highest-in, first-out
3. random picking
4. first-expired, first-out (FEFO)

9 · Cold chain · medium

Which pre-cooling method is especially suited to leafy vegetables such as lettuce?

1. Hydrocooling of cartons of dry onions
2. Curing at high temperature
3. Vacuum cooling
4. Room cooling of sealed, unvented bags

10 · Cold chain · easy

Frozen foods are commonly required to be held at

1. ambient temperature
2. 10 to 13 degrees C
3. minus 18 degrees C or colder
4. 0 to 4 degrees C