NABARD Assistant Manager Grade A (RDBS) · India · National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersNABARD Assistant Manager Grade A (RDBS) is a government recruitment exam run by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, for candidates in India. Phase I: 200 questions / 200 marks / 120 minutes, -1/4. Phase II: Paper I General English, descriptive, 100 marks / 90 minutes; Paper II (generalist) ESI + ARD, 30 objective questions / 50 marks / 30 minutes plus descriptive (attempt 4 of 6: 2 x 15 + 2 x 10) / 50 marks / 90 minutes. Mandatory psychometric test. Interview 50.
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The part agriculture plays in economic development, the classic theories of that role, and how price, land, credit, research, trade and subsidy policy are made and judged.
Our 22 NABARD Assistant Manager Grade A questions in this subject: 13 easy, 8 medium, 1 hard, across 10 units.
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
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Agriculture is 20% of an economy's GDP and grows at 3% a year; the rest of the economy (80%) grows at 8%. What is the approximate growth rate of GDP?
D. 7.0%
GDP growth is the share-weighted average of sectoral growth: 0.2 x 3 + 0.8 x 8 = 0.6 + 6.4 = 7.0%. The simple average of 3 and 8 gives 5.5% (ignores weights); swapping the weights gives 0.8 x 3 + 0.2 x 8 = 4.0%; adding the rates gives 11%.
In the CACP cost concepts, cost A2 is
D. cost A1 plus rent paid for leased-in land
A1 is all paid-out costs of an owner-operator; A2 adds rent actually paid for leased-in land. Adding family labour to A2 gives A2+FL; B2 involves rental value of owned land; C3 adds 10% management to C2*.
For a crop, cost A2+FL is 1,500 currency units per quintal and cost C2 is 2,000 per quintal. Under the rule announced in the Union Budget 2018-19 (MSP at least 1.5 times cost of production, applied on A2+FL), the minimum MSP is
D. 2,250 currency units per quintal
1.5 x A2+FL = 1.5 x 1,500 = 2,250 currency units. 3,000 currency units is 1.5 x C2, the basis farm groups read into the Swaminathan Commission's recommendation. 2,000 currency units is C2 itself with no margin, and 1,750 adds only 250 to A2+FL.
A farmer takes a short-term crop loan of 200,000 currency units for one year at 7% interest and qualifies for a 3% prompt-repayment incentive. How much interest does he effectively bear?
B. 8,000 currency units
Effective rate = 7% - 3% = 4%; interest = 200,000 x 0.04 = 8,000 currency units. 14,000 currency units ignores the incentive; 20,000 currency units wrongly adds the two rates; 6,000 currency units applies only the 3% incentive rate as if it were the charge.
Under Reserve Bank of India priority sector norms, the target for lending to agriculture is
D. 18% of adjusted net bank credit
Agriculture's target is 18% of ANBC (or credit equivalent of off-balance-sheet exposure), with a sub-target for small and marginal farmers. 40% is the overall priority sector target for domestic commercial banks, a common confusion. Check the current master direction for sub-target values.
The WTO 'blue box' covers
C. direct payments under production-limiting programmes
Blue box payments (Article 6.5) are tied to fixed areas, yields or livestock numbers under programmes that limit production. Minimal-distortion support is green box; Article 6.2 development box covers investment and input subsidies to low-income or resource-poor producers.
Under PM-KISAN, announced in February 2019, eligible farmer families receive
B. 6,000 currency units a year in three equal instalments
PM-KISAN pays 6,000 currency units a year as three instalments of 2,000, by direct benefit transfer. Per-acre payments describe Telangana's Rythu Bandhu, a different design. Check current eligibility rules before relying on them.
Which of the following is NOT one of the four commonly used dimensions of food security?
D. Profitability
The four dimensions are availability, access, utilisation and stability. Profitability of farming affects availability indirectly but is not a dimension of food security.
If 800 million people are each entitled to 5 kg of grain per month, roughly how much grain is needed in a year?
A. 48 million tonnes
800 million x 5 kg x 12 months = 48,000 million kg = 48 million tonnes. 4 million tonnes is one month's requirement; 480 Mt is a factor-of-ten slip in converting kg to tonnes.
The Targeted Public Distribution System, with different prices for households below and above the poverty line, was introduced in
C. 1997
TPDS came in 1997. 1992 is the Revamped PDS for difficult areas; 2000 is Antyodaya Anna Yojana; 2013 is the National Food Security Act.
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