Question Bank on ICAR Institutes

ICAR Institutes: Question Bank

Also read: Indian Agriculture GK: Questions Bank

Indian Institute of Horticultural Research

Q. 01. Where is the headquarter of IIHR?

Answer: The headquarter of IIHR is located at Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru.

Q. 02. What is the year of establishment of IIHR?

Answer: It is 1967.

Q. 03. Name the regional stations of IIHR?

Answer: The regional stations of IIHR are as follows:

CHES Chettalli
CHES Bhubaneshwar
CHES Hirehalli

Q. 04. What type of journal is the Journal of Horticultural Sciences published by IIHR?

Answer: It is a biannual journal.

Q. 05. What are the different varieties of vegetables developed by IIHR?

Answer: The different varieties of vegetables by IIHR are as follows:

Arka Manik: Watermelon
Arka Anamika: Okra
Arka Komal: French bean
Arka Vikas: Tomato
Arka Ananya: Tomato
Arka Niketan: Onion
Arka Meghana: Chilli
Arka Suphal: Chilli
Arka Swetha: Chilli hybrid
Arka Anand: Brinjal
Arka Lalima and Arka Kirthima: Onion hybrid

National Rice Reaserch Institute

Q. 01. When was NRRI established?

Answer: April 23, 1946 at Cuttack, Odisha.

Q. 02. Who was the founder director of NRRI?

Answer: Dr. K Ramiah, an eminent rice breeder, was its founder Director.

Q. 03. What are the different research works of CRRI?

Answer: CRRI has two research stations, one at Hazaribag, Jharkhand. It carries out rice research on rainfed upland ecologies and the other research station at Gerua, Assam carries out rice research on flood prone rainfed lowland ecologies.

Q. 04. Where is CRRI located?

Answer: Location of CRRI is Bidyadharpur.

Q. 05. What are the 2050 visions of CRRI?

Answer: The 2040 visions of CRRI are as follows:

Sustainable food
Nutritional and livelihood security
Equitable prosperity through rice science

Central Potato Research Institute

Q. 01. Year of establishment of CPRI

Answer: August 1949, Patna (Bihar).

Q. 02. What is the location of CPRI?

Answer: The location of CPRI is Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

Q. 03. When was CPRI shifted to Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

Answer: In 1956 in order to facilitate hybridization work in potato breeding and maintain seed potato health.

Q. 04. What are the different regionals stations of CPRI?

Answer: The different regionals stations of CPRI are as follows:

Modipuram, Meerut (Uttar Pradesh)
Jalandhar (Punjab)
Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh)
Patna (Bihar)
Shillong (Meghalaya)
Ooty (Tamil Nadu)
Kufri-Fagu Unit (Shimla, Himachal Pradesh)

Q. 05. What is the use of Dipstick Kits?

Answer: The dipstick kits quickly detect the major potato viruses at field level.

Forest Research Institute

Q. 01. Who was the founder of Forest Research Institute?

Answer: Dietrich Brandis was the founder of Forest Research Institute.

Q. 02. Year of formation of Forest Research Institute

Answer: 1906

Q. 03. Describe the history of the Forest Research Institute

Answer: The history of the Forest Research Institute are as follows:

1864: Established the British Imperial Forest School by Dietrich Brandis.
1906: Reestablished as the Imperial Forest Research Institute, under the British Imperial Forestry Service.

Q. 04. What kind of university is FRI?

Answer: FRI is a deemed university.

Q. 05. Who are trained in FRI?

Answer: Indian Forest and Service
State Forest Service.

Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute 

Q. 01. What is the year of establishment of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute?

Answer: The year of establishment of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute is 1947.

Q. 02. Which Indian city is tye headquarter of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute?

Answer: The headquarter of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute is Kochi, Kerala.

Q. 03. Who is the director of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute?

Answer: The director of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute is Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan.

Current Director CMFRI.

Q. 04. What are the visions of CMFRI?

Answer: The visions of CMFRI are as follows:

Sustainable marine fisheries through management intervention.
Enhanced coastal fish production through mariculture for improved coastal livelihoods.

Central Avian Research Institute

Q. 01. Where is the Central Avian Research Institute located?

Answer: Izzatnagar, Uttar Predesh, India.

Q. 02. What is the year of the formation of the Central Avian Research Institute?

Answer: The year of the formation of the Central Avian Research Institute is 2 November 1979.

Q. 03. Who was the first director of the Central Avian Research Institute?

Answer: Dr. B. Panda (2 Nov. 1979 to 31 March 1990) was the first director of the Central Avian Research Institute.

Q. 04. What are the mandates of CARI?

Answer: The mandates of CARI are as follows:

Basic and applied research on productivity enhancement for sustainable production in diverse avian species.
Human resource development and capacity building.

Central Institute for Cotton Research

Q. 01. Year of establishment of the Central Institute for Cotton Research

Answer: Year of establishment of the Central Institute for Cotton Research is 1976.

Q. 02. The headquarter of the Central Institute for Cotton Research

Answer: The headquarter of the Central Institute for Cotton Research is Nagpur, Maharastra.

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

Q. 01. What the different roles of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute?

Answer: The different roles of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute are as follows:

Agricultural research.
Agricultural education.
Agricultural  extension.

Q. 02. What was the old name of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute?

Answer: The old name of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute was Imperial Institute of Agricultural Research.

Q. 03. Which of the following institute was responsible for the Green Revolution in India?

Answer: The Indian Agricultural Research Institute was responsible for the Green Revolution in India.

Q. 04. What is the year of formation of the Indian Agricultural Research?

Answer: The year of formation of the Indian Agricultural Research is 1905 (1 April 1905).

Q. 05. Who is the current director of the Indian Agricultural Research?

Answer: the current director of the Indian Agricultural Research is Ashok Kumar Singh.

See current director.

Central Arid Zone Research Institute

Q. 01. What is the motto of the Central Arid Zone Research Institute?

Answer: The motto of the Central Arid Zone Research Institute is follows:

“Enhancing resilience of arid lands.”

Q. 02. What is the year of formation of the Central Arid Zone Research Institute?

Answer: The year of formation of the Central Arid Zone Research Institute is 1959.

Q. 03. Which is the parent body of the Central Arid Zone Research Institute?

Answer: Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India.

Q. 04. Where is CAZRI located?

Answer: The location of CAZRI is Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

Q. 05. Which of the following is a publication of CAZRI?

Answer: Maru Krishi Chayanika (मरू कृषि चयनिका) is a publication by CAZRI.

The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering 

Q. 01. What type of institute is the Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering?

Answer: The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering is an autonomous institute.

Q. 02. Under which five year plan was the Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering established?

Answer: The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering was established under V five-year plan.

Q. 03. What are the different NIAP projects of the Central Institute of Agricultural Research?

Answer: The different NIAP projects of the Central Institute of Agricultural Research are as follows:

Value Chain on Biomass: It is l based decentralised power generation. It is useful for agro enterprises.
Precision farming technologies: It is based on Microprocessor and Decision Support Systems.
Efficiency in production agriculture.
Evaluation of X-ray, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging for detecting the internal disorders.

Indian Institute of Soil Science

Q. 01. What is Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit (AKMU)?

Answer: It is Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit which provide communication facilities to the scientists and the institute.

Q. 02. What was the mandate of the Indian Institute of Soil Science at the time of its formation?

Answer: The mandate of the Indian Institute of Soil Science at the time of its formation was “Enhancing Soil Productivity with Minimum Environmental Degradation.”

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