ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD) — Subject 59 Forestry · India · National Testing Agency for ICAR
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersTrees on farms and in landscapes: definitions and history of agroforestry, classification of systems, diagnosis and design, and the major agroforestry systems of the world's agro-ecological zones. The Sustainability track has a single overview subject (agroforestry-trees-on-farms); this track treats agroforestry as a forester designs and manages it, in two subjects.
In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 5 and Unit 1 (National Agroforestry Policy 2014); ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 (agroforestry); IFoS Forestry Paper I Section B; ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 05 Agronomy Unit IX (agroforestry systems)
How our questions for ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF spread across the units of Agroforestry Systems & Design. Difficulty: 2 easy, 27 medium, 13 hard.
| Diagnosis and design methodology | 7 | |
| Classification: structural, functional, socio-economic, ecological | 5 | |
| Multipurpose tree species and their characteristics | 5 | |
| Land capability classification and land use | 4 | |
| Agroforestry systems of different agro-ecological zones | 4 | |
| National agroforestry policies | 4 | |
| Concept, definition and history of agroforestry | 3 | |
| Agrisilviculture, silvopastoral and agrosilvopastoral systems | 3 | |
| Temperate agroforestry: silvopasture, riparian buffers, forest farming | 3 | |
| Benefits and constraints of agroforestry | 2 | |
| Homegardens, alley cropping, boundary planting, windbreaks and shelterbelts | 2 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
In taungya, crops share the land with young trees only for the first few years. This temporal arrangement is:
C. Concomitant
Concomitant: components together for part of the period.
The main architect of the D&D methodology was:
C. J. B. Raintree
Raintree's D&D User's Manual was published in 1987.
D&D is described as iterative because:
B. Results feed back into renewed diagnosis
Monitoring of implementation returns to diagnosis and redesign.
An ideotype in agroforestry refers to:
B. An ideal tree form
E.g. poplar with narrow crown, late flushing.
Which tree fixes nitrogen through Frankia rather than Rhizobium?
A. Casuarina equisetifolia
Casuarina and Alnus are actinorhizal.
For a poplar ideotype in winter-crop systems, a desirable trait is:
C. Late leaf flushing and early leaf fall
Reduces shade on rabi crops.
Which trait is generally NOT desirable in a multipurpose tree for agroforestry?
A. Strong allelopathic effects on crops
Allelopathy harms associated crops.
Ginseng, goldenseal and shiitake grown under a forest canopy are examples of:
D. Forest farming
Specialty crops in the understorey.
The USDA National Agroforestry Center is located in:
A. Lincoln, Nebraska
Established under the 1990 Farm Bill.
India's National Agroforestry Policy was approved in:
A. 2014
February 2014; India was the first country with such a policy.
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