ibps-so 2016 · Question 354 of 394

A godown owner who has taken a produce pledge advance from the branch has been supplied by a licensed pest control operator with tablets of aluminium phosphide, and the eld o cer inspecting the godown has to record in his inspection note the class of chemical to which the material belongs and the purpose for which the operator has used it. The operator has placed the tablets deep in the live burrows in the bunds around the godown and has then sealed each burrow mouth with mud, so that the gas released as the tablet takes up moisture stays in the burrow. The o cer notes that the same material is used, under strict licence and in gas-tight conditions, against the insects of stored grain as well, but that in the operation before him it has been used against the pest whose burrows have been sealed, and the note must record the class of chemical accordingly. Aluminium phosphide, so used, is a

1. AHerbicide
2. BRodenticideCorrect
3. CPlant growth regulator
4. DFungicide
5. EDefoliant