State Forest Service — Assistant Conservator of Forests (state PSC exams) · India · State Public Service Commissions (e.g. TNPSC, MPPSC, UPPSC, HPPSC, KPSC, MPSC)
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)
State forest service (ACF and RFO) examinations
Social and farm forestry, common agroforestry species and systems of the state, windbreaks and shelterbelts, and the 2014 policy.
How our questions for State Forest Service spread across the units of Agroforestry Systems & Design. Difficulty: 2 easy, 17 medium, 2 hard.
| Homegardens, alley cropping, boundary planting, windbreaks and shelterbelts | 3 | |
| Land capability classification and land use | 3 | |
| National agroforestry policies | 3 | |
| Concept, definition and history of agroforestry | 2 | |
| Benefits and constraints of agroforestry | 2 | |
| Agrisilviculture, silvopastoral and agrosilvopastoral systems | 2 | |
| Diagnosis and design methodology | 2 | |
| Multipurpose tree species and their characteristics | 2 | |
| Classification: structural, functional, socio-economic, ecological | 1 | |
| Agroforestry systems of different agro-ecological zones | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The taungya system was formalised in the 1850s in Burma under:
C. Dietrich Brandis
Brandis used taungya to establish teak plantations in Burma.
The term 'social forestry' was popularised in India by the:
B. National Commission on Agriculture, 1976
The NCA report of 1976 used social forestry for forestry serving rural communities.
A main management concern when introducing silvopasture on degraded land is:
B. Protecting young trees from browsing
Controlled grazing and stocking matched to forage protect trees.
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).
A key principle of D&D is that design should start from:
B. Farmers' goals and constraints
D&D is problem-driven, not technology-driven.
The USDA land capability classification has:
C. Eight classes, I to VIII
Classes I-VIII (Klingebiel and Montgomery, 1961).
Land that precludes commercial plant production and suits only recreation, wildlife or water supply is class:
C. VIII
Class VIII precludes commercial plant production.
Silvopasture and fodder banks are most appropriate on land capability classes:
C. V to VII
Non-arable classes suited to grazing and woodland.
The 2017 amendment of the Indian Forest Act removed from the definition of 'tree':
B. Bamboo grown outside forest areas
Farm bamboo no longer needs felling or transit permits.
Kenya's Farm Forestry Rules of 2009 aim for tree cover on agricultural land of at least:
D. 10%
The rules aim for at least 10 percent tree cover on farmland.
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