IAS Mains Paper: Agriculture 2001
Paper-I
Section A

Write short notes in about 200 words each on any three of the

following:

Organic farming

Allelopathy

Recent methods of line sowing

Price fluctuation

Define intercropping. Give the definition of different systems of

intercropping each with 3 examples. Discuss the effect of component

crops on each other.

What do you mean by IPNM? Discuss it in the context of rice-wheat

cropping system.

Write comments on the following:

Intercropping of sugarbeet with sugarcane

Summar sown pigeonpea-wheat rotation

N-application in submerged soils in rice

Wheat after potato and wheat with potato

Section B

Write short notes in about 200 words each on any three of the

following:

Agro-techniques for stabilising crop production in rainfed conditions

Scope of agro-forestry

Farm planning

Methods of evaluation of extension programmes

Discuss the different approaches of scheduling irrigation in field crops.

Give your opinion about the scope of: Drip and sprinkler irrigation in field

crops.

Prepare a production plan for a family farm of 0.5 hectare having four

fields irrigated by hired tubewell water in which domestic needs govern

the cropping system

Differentiate between the following:

Soil fertility productivity

Relative Obnoxious weeds

Synergistic and Legume effect in crops

Maximum yield and Maximum economic yield


Differentiate between climacteric and non-climacteric fruits. Explain

the changes that occur during maturity and ripening of these fruits.

Explain the following with examples:

Market intelligence and marketing of fruits and vegetables.

Principles of orchard planning.

Role of Apomixis in horticulture.

Use of fungicides for the control of diseases in vegetables crops.