ICAR AIEEA-PG — Forestry/Agroforestry & Silviculture (Major Subject Group 09) · 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)
ICAR AIEEA-PG Forestry (Group 09, 9.2 Silviculture & Agroforestry) and Agronomy agroforestry unit
Classification, agrisilviculture, silvopasture and agrosilvopasture, homegardens, alley cropping, windbreaks, MPT characteristics and land capability classes.
How our questions for ICAR AIEEA-PG spread across the units of Agroforestry Systems & Design. Difficulty: 12 easy, 42 medium, 3 hard.
| Homegardens, alley cropping, boundary planting, windbreaks and shelterbelts | 11 | |
| Agroforestry systems of different agro-ecological zones | 7 | |
| Concept, definition and history of agroforestry | 6 | |
| Classification: structural, functional, socio-economic, ecological | 6 | |
| Multipurpose tree species and their characteristics | 6 | |
| Agrisilviculture, silvopastoral and agrosilvopastoral systems | 5 | |
| Land capability classification and land use | 5 | |
| Benefits and constraints of agroforestry | 3 | |
| Temperate agroforestry: silvopasture, riparian buffers, forest farming | 3 | |
| National agroforestry policies | 3 | |
| Diagnosis and design methodology | 2 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
Which is NOT one of the components of social forestry as defined in India?
A. Clear-felling of reserved forest
Social forestry includes farm, community, extension and recreational forestry.
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 most widely adopted form of agroforestry on Indian farms is:
A. Boundary planting on bunds
It takes little cropland and marks ownership.
For crop protection, windbreak porosity is often recommended at around:
B. 40 to 50 percent
Moderate porosity gives a long protected zone with little turbulence.
The USDA land capability classification has:
C. Eight classes, I to VIII
Classes I-VIII (Klingebiel and Montgomery, 1961).
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.
The USDA National Agroforestry Center is located in:
A. Lincoln, Nebraska
Established under the 1990 Farm Bill.
Large-scale intercropping of Paulownia with wheat is characteristic of:
B. The North China Plain
Paulownia intercropping is widespread there.
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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