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NABARD GK Questions 2026

The static part of NABARD's awareness tests is economics, rural society and agriculture more than history or sports. The Grade A syllabus for Economic & Social Issues covers the nature of the Indian economy, reforms, inflation, poverty and its measurement, population policy, rural credit, industrial policy, banking reforms, international institutions, social structure, education, social justice and human development. The Agriculture & Rural Development syllabus covers agronomy, soils and irrigation, farm engineering, horticulture, animal husbandry, fisheries, forestry, extension, ecology and climate change, agricultural finance and marketing, and rural development programmes and Panchayati Raj. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for NABARD. Each note is written as short facts and tables, so a topic can be revised in one sitting. The Indian Economy notes serve most of ESI. The Indian Polity notes cover Panchayati Raj and social justice. The Geography notes cover soils, irrigation, climate and forests, and the Environment and Ecology notes cover climate change and its international bodies. The Computer notes serve the Computer Knowledge test, and Static GK helps with General Awareness. Agronomy, animal husbandry and fisheries go beyond general GK, so use the advertisement's ARD list as a checklist for them. Read a note, then take its quiz on this site to check what you retained.

NABARD GK Questions with Answers

Q142.Banking & Financial AwarenessAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2024, GS Paper IMedium

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Syndicated lending spreads the risk of borrower default across multiple lenders.

Statement-II: The syndicated loan can be a fixed amount/lump sum of funds, but cannot be a credit line.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

  1. A.Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II explains Statement-I
  2. B.Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct, but Statement-II does not explain Statement-I
  3. C.Statement-I is correct, but Statement-II is incorrect
  4. D.Statement-I is incorrect, but Statement-II is correct
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Correct answer: C. Statement-I is correct, but Statement-II is incorrect

A syndicate shares the default risk, and a syndicated facility can be either a term loan or a credit line.

Q143.Indian EconomyAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2017, GS Paper IEasy

What is/are the advantage/advantages of implementing the 'National Agriculture Market' scheme ? 1. It is a pan-India electronic trading portal for agricultural commodities. 2. It provides the farmers access to nationwide market, with prices commensurate with the quality of their produce. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

  1. A.1 only
  2. B.2 only
  3. C.Both 1 and 2
  4. D.Neither 1 nor 2
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Correct answer: C. Both 1 and 2

e-NAM is an online trading platform for farm produce across India, and it lets farmers reach buyers beyond their local mandi at prices that reflect quality.

Q144.EconomyEasy

APEDA functions under which Union ministry?

  1. A.Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
  2. B.Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  3. C.Ministry of Food Processing Industries
  4. D.Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
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Correct answer: B. Ministry of Commerce and Industry

The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority is an export promotion body, and it is placed under the commerce ministry rather than under the ministry that handles farming itself.

Q147.Indian EconomyEasy

Which of the following is regarded as the most successful component of land reform in India?

  1. A.Abolition of intermediaries
  2. B.Imposition of ceilings on holdings
  3. C.Distribution of surplus land
  4. D.Voluntary land gifts under Bhoodan
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Correct answer: A. Abolition of intermediaries

The laws passed between 1948 and the middle of the nineteen fifties ended zamindari, jagirdari and similar tenures across the country and brought about twenty million cultivators into direct relation with the state, and the First Amendment of 1951 secured those laws, so the class of rent collecting intermediaries disappeared.

Q148.Indian EconomyHard

The right to property ceased to be a fundamental right in India by which constitutional amendment?

  1. A.Twenty-fifth Amendment
  2. B.Forty-second Amendment
  3. C.Forty-fourth Amendment
  4. D.Seventy-third Amendment
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Correct answer: C. Forty-fourth Amendment

Passed in 1978, it deleted the right to property from Part III and re-enacted it as Article 300A, under which no person may be deprived of property except by authority of law, so the protection is now a legal right enforceable through the ordinary courts rather than a fundamental right.

Q149.Indian EconomyHard

In the context of land ceiling laws, a benami transfer means

  1. A.the sale of land to a cooperative society
  2. B.the transfer of land in the name of another person to hide real ownership
  3. C.the lease of land to a sharecropper for a fixed share
  4. D.the exchange of scattered plots to form a compact field
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Correct answer: B. the transfer of land in the name of another person to hide real ownership

A benami transfer records land in the name of a relative, a servant or a fictitious person while the real owner keeps control, and it was the commonest device used to stay within the family ceiling on paper while holding far more land in fact, which is one reason so…

Q150.Indian EconomyMedium

Consolidation of holdings in India has been most successful in which group of states?

  1. A.Kerala and Tamil Nadu
  2. B.Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh
  3. C.Odisha and West Bengal
  4. D.Assam and Tripura
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Correct answer: B. Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh

These states made consolidation compulsory and completed it over most of their cultivated area, exchanging a farmer's scattered strips for one compact block, which made tube wells, tractors and field channels worth installing and so fed into the green revolution.

Q151.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the Constitution, land and land tenures fall in which legislative list?

  1. A.Union List
  2. B.State List
  3. C.Concurrent List
  4. D.Residuary powers of Parliament
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Correct answer: B. State List

Land, rights in and over land, land tenures, the relation of landlord and tenant, and the collection of rent are entries of List II of the Seventh Schedule, which is why zamindari abolition, tenancy law and ceilings were enacted state by state and why their record varies so much.

Q152.Indian EconomyMedium

The Bhoodan movement was started in 1951 by whom and at which place?

  1. A.Jayaprakash Narayan at Sitabdiara
  2. B.Vinoba Bhave at Pochampally
  3. C.Mahatma Gandhi at Sevagram
  4. D.N.G. Ranga at Guntur
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Correct answer: B. Vinoba Bhave at Pochampally

Walking through the villages of the Telangana region in 1951 he asked landowners to treat the landless as their own kin and to gift a share of their land, and the first such gift at Pochampally began the Bhoodan or land gift movement, later extended as Gramdan, the gift of…

Q153.Indian EconomyMedium

Operation Barga, the programme to record and protect sharecroppers, was carried out in which state?

  1. A.Kerala
  2. B.West Bengal
  3. C.Bihar
  4. D.Maharashtra
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Correct answer: B. West Bengal

From 1978 the state government ran a campaign to enter the names of sharecroppers, known there as bargadars, in official records, which gave them a permanent and heritable right to cultivate and a legally fixed share of the crop, and it is quoted as the most effective tenancy reform in…

Q154.Indian EconomyMedium

Which amendment of the Constitution added the Ninth Schedule in order to protect land reform laws from challenge?

  1. A.First Amendment, 1951
  2. B.Fourth Amendment, 1955
  3. C.Seventeenth Amendment, 1964
  4. D.Forty-fourth Amendment, 1978
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Correct answer: A. First Amendment, 1951

Courts had begun to strike down zamindari abolition laws as a breach of the right to property, so Parliament inserted Articles 31A and 31B and created the Ninth Schedule, in which a law can be placed to put it beyond challenge on the ground that it takes away a fundamental…

Q155.Indian EconomyMedium

The Ryotwari system of land revenue is associated chiefly with which official?

  1. A.Holt Mackenzie
  2. B.Thomas Munro
  3. C.John Shore
  4. D.Lord Cornwallis
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Correct answer: B. Thomas Munro

Working with Alexander Read in the ceded districts and later as Governor of Madras, Munro settled the revenue directly with each cultivator, the ryot, who was recognised as the owner of his field so long as he paid, with the demand revised every twenty or thirty years.

Q158.GeographyHard

Which of the following statements about the green revolution in India is NOT correct?

  1. A.It began in the middle of the nineteen sixties.
  2. B.It depended on high yielding dwarf varieties, irrigation and fertiliser.
  3. C.Its gains were spread evenly across all states of India.
  4. D.It raised wheat output more than it raised rice output.
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Correct answer: C. Its gains were spread evenly across all states of India.

The correct answer is C, because the gains were not spread evenly: they were concentrated in the assured irrigation belt of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, and later in parts of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, while the rain fed districts of central and eastern India gained far less.