UPSC Indian Forest Service Examination · India · Union Public Service Commission
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersTrees in farmland as a sustainability tool: system types, tree-crop interactions, carbon, soil and biodiversity benefits. Silviculture, forest management and REDD+ are covered in depth in the Forestry track; this subject keeps to trees on farms.
In the exams: ICAR AIEEA-PG Forestry group 9.2; ICAR AICE Agroforestry; overlaps with the Forestry track
How our questions for UPSC Indian Forest Service Examination spread across the units of Agroforestry & Trees on Farms for Sustainability. Difficulty: 9 easy, 30 medium, 8 hard.
| Classification of agroforestry systems | 8 | |
| Tree-crop interactions: competition and facilitation | 7 | |
| Silvopastoral and silvoarable systems | 7 | |
| Agroforestry for livelihoods and markets | 7 | |
| Policy and tenure barriers to trees on farms | 7 | |
| Agroforestry for soil fertility and erosion control | 6 | |
| Shelterbelts, windbreaks and boundary plantations | 4 | |
| Carbon storage in agroforestry | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
ICRAF, the World Agroforestry Centre, was founded in 1978 with its headquarters in:
B. Nairobi
ICRAF began in Nairobi in 1978 as the International Council for Research in Agroforestry.
Nair's classification groups agroforestry systems on four bases. They are:
C. Structural, functional, socio-economic and ecological
Nair's four bases: structure, function, socio-economic scale and ecological zone.
Taungya, in which farmers grow crops between young forest tree seedlings for the first few years, originated in:
C. Burma
Taungya developed in Burma in the nineteenth century and spread to India and elsewhere.
In the interaction equation I = F - C used for agroforestry, C stands for:
B. Competition for light, water and nutrients
I is the net interaction, F facilitation and C competition (Ong and colleagues).
A practice that reduces below-ground competition between boundary trees and crops is:
B. Root pruning or trenching along the crop side
Cutting lateral roots near the crop limits overlap of root zones.
In a tree-crop system the crop yields 70% of the sole crop and the trees 60% of a sole plantation. The land equivalent ratio is:
C. 1.3
LER = 0.7 + 0.6 = 1.3. Averaging gives 0.65 and multiplying gives 0.42, both wrong.
Shea butter, an important income source for women in the Sahel, comes from parkland trees of:
D. Vitellaria paradoxa
Shea is Vitellaria paradoxa; Parkia gives néré, Adansonia is baobab.
Trees on farms are often described as 'savings banks' because farmers can:
D. Harvest and sell them when cash is needed
Standing trees can be cut and sold for school fees, weddings or emergencies.
A recurring problem for farmers growing poplar for timber in north-western India has been:
A. Price collapse when many farmers harvest at once
Synchronised planting led to gluts and low prices at harvest.
Contract or buy-back arrangements between wood-based industries and farmers mainly:
B. Reduce market risk for tree growers
They assure a market and often supply quality planting stock.
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