NEGROS ORIENTAL STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERY

Bayawan-Sta. Catalina Campus
Bayawan City

Nicarter Tano Daquiado

Name_________________________________ Score:__________

Elective 1-Organic Farming

Final Examination
2nd Sem 2020
I. True or False. Write T if the statement is correct and F if it is incorrect. Write your answer in the space provided
before the number.
T
____1. The use of synthetic fertilizers is encouraged in organic farming.
T
____2. The farm is a living organism.
F
____3. Artificial fertilizers were first created in the 18 th century.
T
____4. Fermented fruit juice is a good source of phosphorus.
T
____5. Cow manure can be used in green manuring.
T
____6. Agriculture was practiced for thousands of years without the use of artificial chemicals.
T
____7. Early fertilizers are expensive but powerful.
T
____8. Oriental herbal nutrient serves as antibiotic to animals.
T
____9. Organic standards require rotation of annual crops.
T
____10. Organic farming encourages mono cropping.
F
_____11. Organic agriculture should sustain and enhance the health of the plants only.
T
_____12. Insects are alcoholics.
T
______13. LABS is used to attract flying insects and butterflies
T
______14. Fish amino acid are applied directly to the leaves of the plant.
T
_____15. Calcium phosphate can induce flowering
T
____16. Biodynamic agriculture is a pseudoscience.
T
____17. Vaccination is allowed in raising organic chicken.
T
____18. Sawdust is an excellent litter material for newly hatched chicks
T
____19. Lettuce can be used as green manure
T
____20. Weeds are unwanted plants
II. Identification. Write the correct answer to the statement below.
RA No. 10068 It is an act providing for the development and promotion of organic agriculture in the Philippines.
_____________1.
Vermicompost
_____________2. It is stable, fine granular organic manure which enriches soil quality by improving its physicochemical
and biological properties.
Coversion Period Refers to the time between the start of the organic management and the certification of crops, animal
_____________3.
husbandry or a aquaculture products as organic.
Organic Farming It is used for the control of garden and vegetables pests such as ants flies, bugs and other insect
_____________4.
pests.
Organic _____________5.
Food Establishment refers to an entity, whether local or foreign, that produces inputs acceptable for organic agriculture.
_____________6. The term used to denote young, newly hatched earthworm.
Andrei
_____________7. It is a specie of red earthworm.
_____________8.
Biodegradable Wastes Refer to organic matter for compost/ organic fertilizer for the organic cultivation, farming of food
crops.
_____________9. Another term for wormcast.
 Commercialization
_____________10. The process of including a new agricultural and fishery technology either as product, process or
service that has undergone the intensive innovative activities of assessment, promotion and transfer for economic
benefit.
Manure
_____________11. The term used for animal excreta, kitchen waste, farm residues, etc used in vermicomposting.
_____________12. It is defined as when the certification criteria and rules are set and monitor/enforced by the
First Party Certification

producer or company itself.

Certification
_____________13. The procedure by which official certification bodies or officially recognized certification bodies
provide written or equivalent assurance that foods or food control systems conform to requirements.
Ecology
_____________14. The study of relationship between organism & their environment.
Vermicast
_____________15. Species of earthworm known as African night crawler.
______________16. A type of vermicomposting where only 5 – 10 tonnes of vermicompost are produce annually.
______________17. It is a term referring to the bedding materials for vermicomposting.
_______________18. It is a hatch-like structure which houses the eggs of earthworms before hatching.
_______________19. pH content of vermicompost.
Ecologically-sound
_______________20. Refers to a state, quality or condition of a product, practice, system, development mode, culture,
environment and the like, Ecologically sound
Sympathetic
_______________21.Magic Primitive or magical ritual using objects or actions resembling or symbolically associated with the
event or person over which influence is sought.
Biodynamic Agriculture
_______________22. A form of alternative agriculture very similar to organic farming, biodynamic agriculture
_______________23. Percentage of total farm acreage to be set apart as biodiversity reserve.
_______________24. The association in charge of accrediting farms who are engaged in biodynamic farming. Demeter
Association
Cytokinins
_______________25. Plant hormones, produced by the roots and travelingupward through the xylem, that promote
tissue growth and budding and, on application, retard plant senescence.
Dandelion flowers
_______________26. These are stuffed into the mesentery of a cow and buried in earth during winter and retrieved in
the spring in order to make compost preparation 506 .
Accreditation
_______________27. The procedure by which a government agency having jurisdiction formally recognizes the
competence of an inspection and/or certification body to provide inspection and certification services.
Fairness
_______________28. It is characterized by equity, respect, justice and stewardship of the shared world, both among
people and in their relations to other living beings.
_______________29. These are crops that has a lifespan of only one year.
Biodynamic Preparation
_______________30. The application rate of the biodynamic field spray preparations 500 per hectare of horn manure.
Yarrow Blossoms
_______________31. These are stuffed into urinary bladders from Red Deer in making compost preparation 502.
Oak Bark
_______________32. These are chopped in small pieces, placed inside the skull of a domesticated animal, surrounded
by peat and buried in earth in a place where lots of rain water runs past in order to make compost preparation 505.
Principle of Health
________________33. Principle of organic agriculture that sustain and enhance the health of soil, plant, animal, human
and planet as one and indivisible.
________________34. A solution used to control garden pests as mites, ants, aphids and other injurious pests.
________________35. A good fungicide for controlling blight, mildew and row of a wide variety of plants.

III. MULTIPLE CHOICE.

Direction. Encircle the letter that corresponds to the correct answer from the alternatives that follow. Write the letter
only in the space provided before the number.

1. Which of the following synthetic substance are allowed in organic farming?

a. Copper
b. sulfate
c. elemental sulfur
d. all of the above
2. The following are prohibited in organic farming except one;
a. Genetically modified organism
b. nano materials
c. Human sewage sludge
d. vermicomposting
3. Which of the following is used to amend soil pH?
a. Rock phosphate
b. lime
c. potash
d. all of these
4. Which decade is known as the pesticide era?
a. 1910
b. 1920
c. 1930
d. 1940
5. The following are combined in organic farming except one;
a. Superstition
b. tradition
c. innovation
d. science
6. Which of the following is the reason why crops are rotated in organic farming?
a. To increase production
b. to confuse pest
c. To maximize land use
d. all of these
7. The following are the side effects in using chemical fertilizers except one;
a. Soil compaction
b. decline in soil fertility
c. Increase production
d. health hazards
8. Which is the process of planting soil-building crops after soil-depleting crops?
a. Green manuring
b. alley cropping
c. crop rotation
d. multiple cropping
9. Which methods of pest control use another organism to control pests of plants?
a. Physical control
b. chemical control
c. Biological control
 d. all of these
10. Which of the following are organisms cause problems on organic farms?
a. Arthropods
b. nematodes
c. fungi
d. all of these
11. Which of the following is the organism present in genetically modified plants?
a. Bacillus, melongensis
b. Bacillus thuringensis
c. Bacillus, terengensis
d. none of these

12. The following are encouraged in organic agriculture except one;

a. Conventional pest control
b. mixed cropping
c. fostering of insect predators
d. biological pest control
13. Which principle in organic agriculture state that it should be managed in a precautionary and responsible
manner to protect the health and well-being of future generation?
a. Principle of Health b. Principle of care
c. Principle of fairness d. Principle of Ecology
14. the world's oldest and most resilient agroecosystem.
a. Conventional farming
b. forest gardening
c. Organic farming
d. all of these
15. . Which is known as Organic Agriculture Act of 2010?
a. RA 1081 b. RA 10068
c. RA 576 d. RA 1071
16. Which of the following is the design of organic production system?
a. Maintain long term soil fertility
b. Recycle wastes of plant and animal origin to return nutrients to the land
c. enhance biological diversity
d. all of these
e. none of these
17. Which refer to organic matter for compost/organic fertilizer for organic fertilizer.
a. biodegradable wastes c. vermicompost
b. kitchen refuse d. all of these
18. The time between the start of the organic management and the certification of agricultural products as organic is__.
a. grace period c. conversion period
b. implementation period d. lag period
19. The procedure by which recognized certification bodies provide written or equivalent assurance that foods conform
to requirements.
a. accreditation b. certification c. quality assurance d. all of these
20. The term that refers to the natural pesticides properties of some special plants created by God.
a. Botanicals b. Organicals c. Biologicals d. all of these