ibps-so 2016 · Question 373 of 394

A crop cutting experiment supervised by the eld o cer in the presence of the borrower has been completed in a wheat eld, and the produce of the sample plot has been weighed, dried and converted to the standard unit in which the performance of the crop is reported in every departmental return, in the district agricultural statistics and in the branch's own crop loan appraisal. That unit is the quintal to the hectare, and the o cer has to record which item of his return is expressed in it. He notes that the seed used, the fertiliser applied and the produce harvested are all quantities of material to the hectare, but that only one of them is conventionally reported in quintals to the hectare, the seed and the fertiliser being reported in kilograms, and that the remaining items of the return are not quantities of material at all. The item that is calculated in quintals per hectare is

1. AYieldCorrect
2. BBulk density of the soil
3. CWater use e ciency
4. DPlant population
5. ELabour requirement