ICAR AIEEA-PG (Master's admission and PG scholarship) · India · National Testing Agency for ICAR
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersICAR AIEEA-PG (Master's admission and PG scholarship) is a postgraduate admission exam run by National Testing Agency for ICAR, for candidates in India. Computer-based test, 120 minutes, 120 MCQs, +4 / -1 / 0 for unattempted, English only. 2026 exam on 4 July 2026. Fills 30% of Master's seats at agricultural universities.
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How economies grow and develop, what part agriculture plays as they transform, and how farm, trade, food, fiscal and climate policies differ across the world's agricultural economies, compared through cases from every continent.
Our 15 ICAR AIEEA-PG questions in this subject: 7 easy, 7 medium, 1 hard, across 6 units.
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
These 10 were written to ICAR AIEEA-PG and are not shown on any other exam's page.
The semi-dwarf wheat varieties that launched the Green Revolution were bred in a programme in which country?
B. Mexico
Norman Borlaug's wheat programme in Mexico, later CIMMYT, bred the semi-dwarf, disease-resistant wheat adopted in South Asia from the mid-1960s. The Philippines hosts IRRI (rice).
The World Trade Organization came into being on:
D. 1 January 1995
The WTO was established on 1 January 1995. GATT came into force in 1948; 15 April 1994 is the date the Uruguay Round agreements were signed at Marrakesh; 2001 is the launch of the Doha Round.
The three pillars of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture are:
B. market access, domestic support and export competition
The Agreement on Agriculture disciplines market access (tariffs and tariff-rate quotas), domestic support (the boxes) and export competition (export subsidies). Food safety falls under the SPS Agreement and intellectual property under TRIPS.
Under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, which form of support is placed in the green box and exempt from reduction?
A. Government spending on agricultural research and extension
Green box support must have no, or at most minimal, trade-distorting effect; general services such as research, extension and inspection qualify. Market price support, input subsidies and output-linked payments are amber box support counted in the AMS.
Under the Uruguay Round, developed countries agreed to cut agricultural tariffs on average by:
C. 36 per cent over six years
Developed countries: 36 per cent average tariff cut over six years (with a minimum 15 per cent per line). Developing countries: 24 per cent over ten years. 20 per cent over six years is the developed-country cut in the aggregate measurement of support, not tariffs.
A developing country's product-specific trade-distorting support for rice is 180 million currency units, and the value of rice production is 2,000 million. Under the WTO de minimis rule for most developing countries, is this support exempt from inclusion in the current total AMS?
B. Yes, because it is below 10 per cent of the value of production (200 million)
The de minimis threshold for most developing countries is 10 per cent of the value of production: 0.10 × 2,000 = 200 million. Support of 180 million is below it, so it is exempt. The 5 per cent threshold applies to developed countries; staple crops are not automatically green box.
At which WTO Ministerial Conference did members decide to eliminate agricultural export subsidies?
D. Nairobi, 2015
The Nairobi Ministerial Decision on Export Competition (2015) committed members to eliminate export subsidies, immediately for developed countries in most cases. Bali (2013) adopted the interim 'peace clause' on public stockholding; Doha launched the round; Marrakesh signed the Uruguay Round results.
The WTO agreement under which a country may restrict imports to protect human, animal or plant health, preferably basing its measures on Codex, WOAH and IPPC standards, is the:
D. Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
The SPS Agreement covers food safety and animal and plant health and names Codex Alimentarius, WOAH and IPPC as reference standard setters. The TBT Agreement covers other technical regulations such as labelling; TRIMs concerns investment; the Safeguards Agreement covers temporary protection against import surges.
A child whose height-for-age is more than two standard deviations below the reference median is classified as:
D. stunted
Low height-for-age is stunting, a sign of chronic undernutrition. Wasting is low weight-for-height (acute); underweight is low weight-for-age; overweight is high weight-for-height.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, whose food standards the WTO SPS Agreement uses as a reference, is run jointly by:
A. FAO and WHO
Codex was established in 1963 by FAO and the World Health Organization. WOAH sets animal health standards and IPPC (hosted by FAO) plant health standards; the WTO uses all three as references but runs none of them.
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Read the manual chapters for these first and do every worked question you can find on them.
Aim for one sitting per unit, then mixed questions across them.
Learn the definitions, classifications and standard numbers; these units are more often recalled than worked.
Come back to these after a first pass, untimed, and read every explanation, including for the options you rejected.
Do these early in revision so they are fast on the day.
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