UPSC Agriculture – Chapter 15: Animal Husbandry and the Economics of Animal Rearing (21 MCQs)
UPSC Agriculture – Chapter 15: Animal Husbandry and the Economics of Animal Rearing (21 MCQs) – 21 questions, subject: Agriculture. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.
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The Rashtriya Gokul Mission aims mainly at:
Correct Answer: A [conservation and development of indigenous bovine breeds]
Explanation:
The Rashtriya Gokul Mission (December 2014) aims at the development and conservation of indigenous bovine breeds and higher milk productivity.
The National Dairy Development Board was set up at Anand in:
Correct Answer: B [1965]
Explanation:
The NDDB was set up at Anand in 1965, with Verghese Kurien as chairman, to replicate the Anand pattern across India.
The National Animal Disease Control Programme (2019) targets mainly:
Correct Answer: C [foot and mouth disease and brucellosis]
Explanation:
NADCP (September 2019) vaccinates livestock against foot and mouth disease and female bovine calves against brucellosis, with full Central funding.
Murrah is a well-known breed of:
Correct Answer: B [buffalo from Haryana]
Explanation:
Murrah is a high-yielding milch buffalo breed whose home tract is Haryana.
Kangayam, a breed of Tamil Nadu, is known mainly as a:
Correct Answer: D [draught cattle breed]
Explanation:
Kangayam of Tamil Nadu is a draught cattle breed, like Hallikar of Karnataka and Khillari of Maharashtra.
Kadaknath, which has a GI tag, is a breed of:
Correct Answer: A [poultry]
Explanation:
from Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh.
India has been the largest producer of milk in the world since about:
Correct Answer: C [1998]
Explanation:
India became the world's largest milk producer around 1998, soon after Operation Flood ended in 1996.
The constitutional provision that directs the State to organise animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines is:
Correct Answer: D [Article 48]
Explanation:
Article 48, a Directive Principle, asks the State to organise agriculture and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines.
The Anand pattern of dairy cooperatives has:
Correct Answer: B [three tiers – village society, district union, State federation]
Explanation:
The Anand pattern links village milk societies, district unions and a State federation, so farmers own processing and marketing.
Consider the following statements:
1. Small, marginal and landless households own a large share of India's livestock.
2. Women do much of the daily work of animal care.
3. Animal husbandry is a Union List subject.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: B [1 and 2 only]
Explanation:
Statements 1 and 2 are true; statement 3 is false because animal husbandry is in the State List (Entry 15).
Assertion (A): Indigenous cattle breeds suit small farmers in dry, hot regions.
Reason (R): They tolerate heat and disease and can live on crop residues and grazing.
Correct Answer: A [Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A]
Explanation:
Heat and disease tolerance and low feed needs are exactly why indigenous breeds suit small farmers in dry, hot regions.
Sex-sorted semen is used in livestock breeding mainly to:
Correct Answer: D [produce mostly female calves]
Explanation:
more milch animals, fewer unwanted male calves.
Breeds of livestock in India are registered by:
Correct Answer: D [ICAR–National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal]
Explanation:
ICAR–National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal, is the body that registers new livestock and poultry breeds of India.
The Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (2020) mainly supports:
Correct Answer: C [dairy and meat processing and feed plants through interest subvention]
Explanation:
AHIDF (2020, ₹15,000 crore) gives interest subvention on loans for dairy and meat processing, animal feed plants and breed farms.
The goat is often called "the poor man's cow" because it:
Correct Answer: C [thrives on scant grazing and multiplies fast]
Explanation:
Goats survive on scant grazing, breed fast and give meat, milk and skins, so poor households can keep them cheaply.
Changthangi goats of Ladakh are valued for:
Correct Answer: D [pashmina fibre]
Explanation:
Changthangi goats of the cold Ladakh plateau yield fine pashmina fibre.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
1. Rashtriya Gokul Mission
2. Operation Flood
3. National Animal Disease Control Programme
4. National Dairy Development Board
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct Answer: C [4-2-1-3]
Explanation:
NDDB 1965, Operation Flood 1970, RGM 2014, NADCP 2019.
A large share of greenhouse gas emissions from Indian livestock comes from:
Correct Answer: A [enteric methane from ruminants]
Explanation:
Cattle, buffalo and other ruminants release methane during digestion, the largest source of livestock greenhouse gas emissions.
National Milk Day, observed on 26 November, marks the birthday of:
Correct Answer: B [Verghese Kurien]
Explanation:
National Milk Day, 26 November, marks the birthday of Verghese Kurien, father of India's White Revolution.
Operation Flood, the programme that built India's dairy cooperatives, was launched in:
Correct Answer: B [1970]
Explanation:
Operation Flood began in 1970 under the NDDB and ran in three phases until 1996.
Consider the following statements about the Rashtriya Gokul Mission:
1. It is important for the upliftment of rural poor as majority of low producing indigenous animals are with small and marginal farmers and landless labourers.
2. It was initiated to promote indigenous cattle and buffalo rearing and conservation in scientific and holistic manner.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: C [Both 1 and 2]
Explanation:
both describe the mission's purpose.
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