◼🌼PM- KISAN Scheme🌼◼

🔷Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a Central Sector scheme with 100% funding from
Government of India
🕊The Scheme is effective from December, 2018
🌿An income support of Rs.6000/- per year is provided to all farmer families across the
country in three equal instalments of Rs.2000/- each every four months. The fund is directly transferred to
the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.

🌞The Common Service Centres (CSCs) have also been authorized to do
registration of the farmers for the Scheme upon payment of fees

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🌈The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

◾️ Headquarters :Vienna, Austria

◾️it is an intergovernmental organization of 13 nations, founded on 14 September 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela),

◾️The current OPEC members are the following: Algeria, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Saudi Arabia (the De facto leader), the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.
Former OPEC members are Ecuador, Indonesia and Qatar.

◾️The formation of OPEC marked a turning point toward national sovereignty over natural resources, and OPEC decisions have come to play a prominent role in the global oil market and international relations.

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DATED ON: 26 / MAY / 2020
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🔸ADB              4.0
🔸Fitch Rating  0.8
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🔸IMF            1.9
🔸UNs       4.8
🔸India Rating 1.9
🔸CRISIL            1.8
🔸MOODY'S 0.0
🔸SBI 1.1
🔸S&P 1.8
🔸ICRA 2.0
🔸Goldman Sach -0.5
🔸Fitch Solution 1.8
🔸CARE Ratings 1.1-1.2
🔸CII 0.9-1.5
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🔸DBS Bank 1.0
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♦️Repo Rate : 4.0%
♦️Reverse Repo Rate : 3.35%
♦️MSF : 4.25%
♦️Bank Rate : 4.25%
♦️CRR : 3%
♦️SLR : 18%

❇️ Savings Rates For First Quarter 2020-21
🔸 Sukanya Samriddhi Account 
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🔸 Public Provident Fund
🔹 7.1%
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🔸 Senior Citizen Savings
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🔸 National Savings Certificate 
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📖01. Which variety of grapes commercially cultivated in north India
A. Thompson seedless
B. Anab-a-Shahi
C. Perlette✅✅
D. Black champa

📖2. State having highest productivity in Guava
A. UP
B. Maharashtra
C. AP
D. Gujarat✅✅
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📖3. Type of inflorescens in grapes
A. Solitary
B. Spadix
C. Panicle✅✅
D. Catkins

📖4. Self sterile variety of pear
A. China pear
B. Patharnakh✅✅
C. Leconte
D. Magness

📖5. Type of incompatibility in loquat
A. Sporophytic
B. Gametophytic✅✅
C. Both
D. None of these

📖6. Which fruit is autohexaploid
A. European plum
B. Phalsa
C. Kiwi✅✅
D. Litchi

📖7. Origin of custard apple is
A. South east Asia
B. Tropical America✅✅
C. China
D. India
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📖8. Highly shade tolerant fruit crops
A. Kiwi
B. Rambutan
C. Carambola✅✅
D. Durian

📖9. Type of apomixis in citrus
A. Non recurrent✅✅
B. Recurrent
C. Parthenocarpy
D. All the above

📖10. Chromosome no of Kiwi
A.38
B.48
C.58✅✅
D.68

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✍🏻20th Livestock Census

✍🏻It was conducted by the dapartment of Animal Husbandry & Dairying under Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
✍🏻The livestock census is conducted across the country periodically since 1919.
For the first time, livestock data were collected on line in 20th Livestock Census. (A new feature)
✍🏻The National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Electronics & IT has developed Android based mobile application for data collection.
✍🏻The 20th Livestock Census was carried out in about 6.6 lakhs villages and 89 thousand urban wards across the country covering more than 27 Crores of Households and NonHouseholds.
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1. 1st Book in Horticulture - Fruit Growing India by W.B.Hayes(1945)- Litchi
2. 1 st President of Horticulture Society of India - G.S.Cheema
3. 1 st Indian Horticulture Congress held - 2004
4. 1st Regional Fruit Research station in UP - Sharanpur
5. 1 st Truly Anti-coagulant Rodenticide - Warfarin
6. 1 st Indigenously developed fungicide - Contaf by Rallis
7. 1 st Folic acid is found in Spinach Leaves
8. 1 st Agricultural Chemist of ICAR - J.W.Leather
9. 1 st micronutrient discovered - Fe
10. 1 st Fertilizer used - Calcium Nitrate
11. 1 st ammonia plant was established in 1913 by Fritz Haber and Carp Bosch (Germany)
12. 1 st soilless cultivation introduced in Kalimpong, Darjeeling, West Bengal
13. 1 st crop raised in Hydroponics is Tomato cv. Pipo (1973)
14. 1
st Biosphere Reserve in India is Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve
15. 1
st Gene Sanctuary for conservation of Citrus Spp. -Citrus Gene Sanctuary (NOKREK Biosphere Reserve)-
Meghalaya
16. 1
st Haploid induction was developed by Guha and Mageshwari in 1966 - Datura innoxia
17. 1
st Successful embryo culture Cherry embryo (1993)
18. 1
st Molecular marker RFLP (1980)
19. 1
st concept of Genetic map was presented by Alfred H. Sturtevant 1913
20. 1
st Genetic map was published in 1911 by T.H.Morgan
21. 1 st Tagged QTL in plants:
fw2.2 (fruit wt in tomato)
22. 1
st Bacterial Genome Sequenced - Haemophilus influenza
23. 1
st Multicellular Organism Sequenced - Caenorhabditis elegans
24. 1
st Plant Sequenced - Arabidopsis thaliana.
25. 1
st Crop Plant Sequenced - Rice
26. 1
st Non-Grassy Plant Sequenced – Banana
27. 1
st Sequenced fruit - Grapes
28. 1
st Genetic Engineering Company - GENETECH (1976)
29. 1
st Transgenic Plant - Tobacco in 1983 by Belgium Biotech Company
30. 1
st Transgenic Variety - “Flavr Savr’’ (Tomato) Calgene Company -> Enhanced Vase of life
31. 1
st Apple orchard is 1870 by Captain lee
32. 1
st HDP - Apple ->England 1960
33. 1
stPlanted kiwi - Lal bagh , Bangalore
34. 1
st Mango Introduction to USA (1833) from Brazil
35. 1
st Consignment of Mango Cvs. export to Japan : Langra & chausa
36. 1
st The word “Mangifera” was used by Bontius in 1658
37. 1
st to Emphasize Importance of Floral characters in mango classification - Hartless 1913
38. 1 st to classify varieties based on Fruit characters, Panicle Axis colour, Pubescence on panicle and No. of
Embryo in seeds – Popenoe(1932)
39. 1 st Initiated Inter-varietal Hybridization in mango – Burns and Prayag in 1911 at Poona
40. 1 st Observed Spongy tissue – G.S.Cheema & Dhani in 1934
41. 1 st Observed Internal Fruit Necrosis – Sant Ram in 1972
42. 1st Observed Black Tip- Woodhouse in 1909
43. 1 st Observed Mango Malformation agrilearner – Dharbanga, Bihar by maries in 1891
44. 1 st Country to exploit International Trade in cashew Kernals – India
45. 1 st Pineapple Hybrid in India – Amritha (Kew X Ripley Queen) by Pineapple Research Centre , KAU,
Thrissur
46. 1 st Coined the term ‘’Papaya Ring Spot’’ by Jensen agrilearner
47. 1 st reported Heterosis in papaya cross b/w- Philippines X Solo by Dai (1960)
48. 1 st Recorded PRSV (aphids)- Western India in 1958
49. 1 st Noticed PDSD in Avocado – Nirody in 1922
50. 1
st Reported PDSD in Avocado – Bregh in 1969

1. Which type of male sterility system recently developed in cotton ?
👉 CGMS

2. H-4 variety of cotton developed from ?
👉 G

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MCQS ON RICE

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Q.1- Scientific name of rice.
Ans. Oryza sativa.

Q.2- Family of rice.
Ans. Gramineae.

Q.3- Origin of rice.
Ans. South East Asia.

Q.4- Sowing time of Autumn/Aus rice.
Ans. March-April

Q.5- Sowing time of Aman rice.
Ans. May-June

Q.6- Sowing time of Boro rice.
Ans. December-January

Q.7- Aman rice also known as.
Ans. Kharief/Winter rice

Q.8- Boro rice also known as.
Ans. Summer rice

Q.9- Lodging does not occur in.
Ans. Japonica rice

Q.10- Rice inflorescence is known as.
Ans. Panicle

Q.11- Hull is combination of.
Ans. Lemma + Paea togather

Q.12- Yield increased by adopting SRI is.
Ans. 50-90%

Q.13- Highest rice producing state in india.
Ans. West Bengal

Q.14- Test weight of basmati rice is.
Ans. 21g

Q.15- Rice is a type of plant.
Ans. Self pollineted & short day plant

Q.16- Cardinal temprature of riceis.
Ans. 30-32°C

Q.17- Hulling % of rice is.
Ans. 70-75%

Q.18- First development rice variety is.
Ans. T.N.-1

Q.19- Jagannath is a mutant variety of.
Ans. T.N.-141

Q.20- The worlds first high yielding variety of rice has been developed by IARI.
Ans. Pusa Basmati-2

Q.21- Maximum rice exporter in the world.
Ans. Thailand

Q.22- Highest productvity of rice world.
Ans. Japan (58q/ha)

Q.23- Most critical stage for water.
Ans. Booting stage

Q.24- Seedling ready for transplanting in depog method.
Ans. 12th day

Q.25- Best bio-fertilizer for rice.
Ans. Azolla

Q.26- Area required for rice nursery
Ans. 700-800 m2

Q.27- Fruit of rice is known as.
Ans. Caryopsis

Q.28- Killer desease of rice are.
Ans. A- Bacterial blight, 2. Tunger virus

Q.29- The gas emits from rice field is.
Ans. Methane

Q.30- Akiochi disease is due to.
Ans. H2S