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 papersRe-establishing tree cover and ecosystem function on degraded and hostile sites, including mangroves, sand dunes, ravines, saline land, mine spoils and cold deserts, and controlling invasive species.
In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 2 (afforestation on difficult sites) and Unit 8 (wastelands); IFoS Forestry Paper I Section A (mangrove and cold-desert silviculture); ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 (wasteland management)
ICAR AIEEA-PG Forestry (Group 09)
Wasteland categories and management, salt-affected soil classification, dune fixation, ravine reclamation and species choice.
How our questions for ICAR AIEEA-PG spread across the units of Forest Restoration & Afforestation of Difficult Sites. Difficulty: 21 easy, 6 medium, 1 hard.
| Saline and alkaline soils | 5 | |
| Principles of ecological restoration and forest landscape restoration | 3 | |
| Coastal sands and sand-dune fixation | 3 | |
| Ravines and gullies | 3 | |
| Mangrove ecology and mangrove plantation | 3 | |
| Lateritic, rocky and dry sites | 2 | |
| Wetlands and waterlogged sites | 2 | |
| Cold-desert afforestation | 2 | |
| Invasive plant species and their control | 2 | |
| Mine-spoil reclamation | 1 | |
| Assisted natural regeneration and framework-species methods | 1 | |
| Wastelands: extent, characteristics and reclamation | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The auger-hole technique for sodic soils was developed at:
C. CSSRI, Karnal
Central Soil Salinity Research Institute.
The tree species most tolerant of highly sodic soils, though invasive, is:
C. Prosopis juliflora
Widely planted on sodic land.
A crescent-shaped water harvesting basin opening uphill is called a:
A. Half-moon
Half-moon basins open uphill to catch runoff.
Seabuckthorn, used to stabilise cold-desert slopes, belongs to the genus:
B. Hippophae
Hippophae rhamnoides.
The beetle Zygogramma bicolorata is a biological control agent of:
B. Parthenium
Mexican beetle released in India.
Assisted natural regeneration mainly works by:
C. Protecting regeneration
It accelerates succession.
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