Range Forest Officer recruitment (state exams) · India · State Public Service Commissions and state forest departments (e.g. MPPSC, UKPSC, UPPSC)
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 Range Forest Officer recruitment spread across the units of Agroforestry Systems & Design. Difficulty: 9 easy, 8 medium, 2 hard.
| Homegardens, alley cropping, boundary planting, windbreaks and shelterbelts | 5 | |
| Concept, definition and history of agroforestry | 3 | |
| Multipurpose tree species and their characteristics | 3 | |
| Agrisilviculture, silvopastoral and agrosilvopastoral systems | 2 | |
| Agroforestry systems of different agro-ecological zones | 2 | |
| Benefits and constraints of agroforestry | 1 | |
| Classification: structural, functional, socio-economic, ecological | 1 | |
| Diagnosis and design methodology | 1 | |
| National agroforestry policies | 1 |
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.
Which is a protective (service) benefit of agroforestry rather than a productive one?
B. Reduced wind and water erosion
Erosion control is a service; the others are products.
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.
A farm boundary 400 m long is planted with one tree every 2 m. The number of trees is:
D. 200
400 / 2 = 200 trees (ignoring an extra tree at one end).
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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