GENERAL AGRICULTURE Part 1- AgriTech(All about Agriculture)

 GENERAL AGRICULTURE  Part 1 

                                                                                                       

Total reporting area of India is 306 mha

 Geographical area of India is 328.74 mha

Total degraded land of India is 187 mha

Gross cropped area of India is 193 mha

Gross irrigated area of India is 76 mha

Net irrigated area of India is 57 mha

Net cropped area of India is 141 mha

Forest area of India is 21.54 % (2017)

State which is having highest geographical area in India is Rajasthan (10.41%)

The state which is 2nd in geographical area is Madhya Pradesh

Highest forest area in the state is Madhya Pradesh

Net cropped area of India is 141 mha

Cropping intensity of India is 135 %

The state which is 1st pulse production is Madhya Pradesh

The state which is 1st in food grain production is Uttar Pradesh

The state which is 1st in total coarse cereals production is Rajasthan

The state which is 2nd in food production is Punjab

The state which is 1st in wheat production is Uttar Pradesh

The state which is 2nd in wheat production is Punjab

Water vapour in the atmosphere is constitute : 0.001 % of the total global water

Annual world precipitation is 1000 mm

Average annual rainfall of India is 1194 mm

Generated rainfall volume is 400 mha-m

Maximum area under irrigation is under is  Ganga basin

Optimum forest area required is 33% of Geographical area

State having maximum area under drip irrigation is Maharasthra

Highest fertilizer consumption rate is Pundicherry(1091 kg/ha)

Total fertilizer consumption is maximum in Uttar Pradesh

State having maximum area under irrigation is Punjab (92.7% of cultivated area)

Most poisonous pollutant in water is Arsenic

Maximum conc.of ozone is found in Lower stratosphere.

Forest conservation act was enacted in the year 1980

The test has self-purification capacity of water body is BOD test

Most common disinfectant in water purification is Chlorine.

Gases responsible for acid rain are SO2 and NO2

Pollutant free alternative to petrol for automobiles is Propane

The gas responsible for Bhopal gars tragedy in 1984 is MIC (Methyl iso cyanate)

MIC was used for manufacturing of insecticide CARBARYL

Author of famous book “Silent Spring” 1962 is Rachel Carson

Largest ocean is Pacific

Establishment of NABARD is 12 July 1982

RBI was established in 1935

Protein are made up from chain of Amino acids

Ozone depletion is mainly due to CFC(chloro floro carbon)

One molecule of CFC is destroyed about 100,000 molecules of Ozone

Gas filled in fire extinguisher cylinder is Co2

Contribution of agriculture to GDP (2016-17) is 14.2 %

Plough which is used to turn over the soil is MB Plough

Carbohydrate which is only present in animal sells is Glycogen

The pesticides consumption is maximum in Andhra Pradesh

Present union agriculture minister is Narendra Singh Tomar

Total KVK in india up to 2017 is 695

Present DG of ICAR is Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra

Recently banned pesticides is Endosulfan (2013)

First all India Co-ordinated Research Project was started on Maize in 1957

First National Research Centre (NRC) for Groundnut (Junagarh , Gujurat 

The region inhabited by living organism on land, ocean and atmosphere is Biosphere 

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