Agro Forestry MCQs

Option A: Over a period of time from practicing social forestry / agroforestry

Option B: Several recommendations have emerged from various workshops, seminars and meetings

Option C: Agroforestry, establishment and management of tree crops

Option D: Marketing

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Introduction of technological procedures not suited to the prevailing socio-economic situations

Option B: While agroforestry enterprise may be attractive

Option C: Political will and commitment

Option D: Increasing number of institution without clear definition of functions, good and effective coordination

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: There are several problems that hinder the acceptance of agroforestry concepts

Option B: And their use as tools in rural development

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Local use and knowledge

Option B: Tenure

Option C: Organization

Option D: Conservation

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Maintains or increases site productivity through nutrient recycling and soil protection, at low capital and labour costs

Option B: Increase the value of output on a given area of land through spatial or inter temporal intercropping of tree and other species

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Reduces output of staple food cross, where trees compete for use of arable land and or depress crop yields.

Option B: In compatibility of trees with agricultural practices such as free grazing, burning, common fields

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Agroforestry appears as an interesting contribution to solve the food crisis as well as the energy crisis.

Option B: Agroforestry has been under-estimated and it seems that the shortage will soon attain an even more critical level in the Third World than the shortage of aliments

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Poplars: wheat / maize / turmeric / sugarcane / vegetables / fodder

Option B: Eucalypts: wheat/sunflower/tomatoes/potatoes/chilies

Option C: Simal: maize/sunflower/vegetables/fodder

Option D: Shisham: turmeric/wheat/maize/vegetables

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Forests generally have a beneficent effect on the soil

Option B: The roots of the forest trees take up nutrients from the soil, convert

Option C: And utilize them for the production of plant material

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Competition for water and nutrients and for solar energy

Option B: Future agroforestry systems will have to overcome physiological (canopy structure) biological (pests and disease), ecological (Sustainability and environment protection) constraints besides being economically sound

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔