Written by Faiz Sir, NABARD Grade A mentor at Clarity4Sure, with experience across multiple NABARD Grade A and UPSC CSE exam cycles. Updated . Companion pages: NABARD ESI · NABARD ARD weightage · NABARD Grade A guide.← 2023 questions · All years & cut-offs · 2021 questions →
Try each question before opening the answer. For cut-offs, year-wise analysis, subject-wise trends and videos, see the NABARD Grade A PYQ repository (2021–2025).
NABARD 2022 questions with answers
NABARD 2022 Phase 1 ARD Questions with Answers (32)
Memory-based questions reconstructed by candidates. Note how many appeared again in later years: e-NAM, KVKs, photoperiodism, hygroscopic water, bench terracing and phosphorus deficiency.
▶ Topic videos with PYQs: Agronomy · Soil & Water · Seed, Forestry & Environment · Extension & Engineering · Horticulture · Animal Husbandry
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Answer: About 150 ± 5 days.
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Answer: Watershed management.
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Answer: Dr Rajendra Prasad.
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Answer: Farm intensification (intensive farming).
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Answer: White Leghorn.
Analysis: It is the main commercial egg-layer breed.
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Answer: Soil Health Card scheme.
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Answer: About 7–14 days.
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Answer: Milk let-down.
Analysis: Galactopoiesis (maintenance of lactation) was asked in 2024.
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Answer: Community forestry.
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Answer: Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs).
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Answer: e-NAM.
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Answer: Ripening (ethylene ripening).
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Answer: Heifer (buffalo heifer).
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Answer: Seedling death in the nursery.
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Answer: ₹5,500 per quintal.
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Answer: Photoperiodism.
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Answer: Hygroscopic water.
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Answer: Bt cotton.
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Answer: Runner (stolon).
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Answer: Seedlings (seed nuts).
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Answer: 18.8%.
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Answer: Sustainable agriculture (sustainable farming).
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Answer: Tectona grandis.
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Answer: Haryana.
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Answer: Biofertilisers.
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Answer: Organic farming.
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Answer: Depreciation.
Analysis: Others include interest, insurance and housing. Fuel and repairs are variable costs.
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Answer: Powdery mildew.
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Answer: Bench terracing.
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Answer: Button mushroom.
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Answer: Phosphorus.
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Answer: mKisan portal.
NABARD 2022 Phase 1 ESI Questions with Answers (31)
Memory-based questions reconstructed by candidates. The 2022 ESI paper was heavily scheme- and data-driven: PMMVY, Ujjwala, Stand-Up India, PM SVANidhi, PMSBY, PM-SYM, Poshan 2.0, the FI-Index and RIDF. Many values are now dated, so update every Dynamic-tagged figure.
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Answer: About 53%.
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Answer: ₹1,000 (of ₹5,000 under the original scheme).
Analysis: PMMVY 2.0 (Mission Shakti) gives ₹5,000 in two instalments, plus ₹6,000 for a second girl child.
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Answer: Access, Usage and Quality.
Analysis: Weights are Access 35%, Usage 45% and Quality 20%.
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Answer: Education.
Analysis: It is the implementation plan for NEP 2020 in school education.
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Answer: Health & Nutrition, Education, Agriculture & Water Resources, Financial Inclusion & Skill Development, and Basic Infrastructure.
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Answer: About 4.35%.
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Answer: ₹200, for 12 refills (later raised to ₹300).
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Answer: About 30%.
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Answer: 918.
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Answer: 101 (of 116 countries).
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Answer: 75.
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Answer: Only 3.
Analysis: SECC had no backing under the Census Act. The RGI is under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
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Answer: Only b.
Analysis: NATS is administered by the Ministry of Education, and stipends are much higher than ₹1,500.
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Answer: Goa (Sikkim also has none).
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Answer: 2025-26.
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Answer: $250 million.
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Answer: ₹10 lakh plus one cycle of working capital (not exceeding 25% of project cost).
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Answer: Tamil Nadu.
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Answer: Section 10.
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Answer: ₹20 a year.
Analysis: PMJJBY was raised from ₹330 to ₹436.
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Answer: ₹200.
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Answer: All three.
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Answer: ₹1.27 lakh.
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Answer: 1976.
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Answer: Maharashtra.
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Answer: 19%.
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Answer: ₹1,200.
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Answer: 51%.
Analysis: Loans range from ₹10 lakh to ₹1 crore.
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Answer: The UN General Assembly; about 20%.
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Answer: ₹19,000 crore.
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Answer: ₹40,000 crore.
NABARD 2022 Phase 2 ESI & ARD Objective Questions (30)
Ten one-mark questions, then two-mark passages on battery-cage poultry, e-NAM, the NAMASTE scheme, piggery, PMAY-G, BPKP and the agrarian economy. Several facts recur across years: poultry laying at 22 weeks (2025), sow gestation (2023), BPKP (2024), the PMAY-G unit cost (2023) and MGNREGA’s extra 50 days (2023).
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Answer: ₹3 per kg (₹2 for wheat, ₹1 for coarse grains).
Analysis: Since January 2023, foodgrains under NFSA have been free under PMGKAY.
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Answer: Vermicomposting.
Analysis: Eisenia fetida is the most common composting earthworm.
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Answer: Loamy soil.
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Answer: NABKISAN Finance Ltd.
Analysis: Other subsidiaries include NABSAMRUDDHI, NABFINS, NABCONS, NABVENTURES, NABFOUNDATION and NABSanrakshan.
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Answer: Intermediate agroforestry.
Analysis: Agroforestry is classified by scale as commercial, intermediate or subsistence.
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Answer: All three.
Analysis: RMNCH+A is the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child plus Adolescent Health strategy (2013).
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Answer: The IMF and the World Bank (structural adjustment).
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Answer: 2 and 3.
Analysis: ASHAs must be literate, preferably educated to class 8 or 10, and aged 25–45. This was asked again in 2025 Phase I.
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Answer: Fragaria × ananassa.
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Answer: Air-screen cleaner.
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Answer: 14 × 16 inches.
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Answer: About 22 weeks.
Analysis: This matches the 2025 Phase I egg-production-curve question (laying begins at about 22 weeks).
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Answer: At least one month.
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Answer: 2016 (14 April 2016).
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Answer: All three (a, b and c).
Analysis: These are the three mandatory APMC reforms for e-NAM integration.
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Answer: Rashtriya e-Market Services (ReMS), a Karnataka government–NCDEX joint venture.
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Answer: a and b.
Analysis: Statement c fails because of “only at state level”: monitoring is strengthened at the national, state and urban-local-body levels.
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Answer: 500 cities.
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Answer: FY 2025-26.
Analysis: NAMASTE is the National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem, run by MoSJE and MoHUA.
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Answer: About 114 days.
Analysis: The same fact was asked in 2023 Phase I (options gave 115 days).
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Answer: Farrowing.
Analysis: In cattle it is calving, in sheep lambing and in goats kidding.
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Answer: At night.
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Answer: 25 sq m and ₹1.30 lakh.
Analysis: Plain-area assistance rose from ₹70,000 to ₹1.20 lakh, as asked in 2023 Phase I.
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Answer: 50 days, over and above 100.
Analysis: This was asked again in 2023 Phase II.
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Answer: Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin).
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Answer: Bharatiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati (BPKP).
Analysis: BPKP has since been scaled up as the National Mission on Natural Farming. It was asked again in 2024 Phase II.
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Answer: ₹12,200 per hectare for 3 years.
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Answer: (c). BPKP promotes biomass mulching; it does not reduce it.
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Answer: 18.8%.
Analysis: This was also asked in 2022 Phase I ARD.
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Answer: Sugarcane, paddy and wheat.
Analysis: They are favoured by MSP-backed procurement and subsidised power and water, which drives groundwater depletion in Punjab, Haryana and western UP.
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NABARD 2022 Phase 2 descriptive questions (English, ESI & ARD)
NABARD 2022 English descriptive topics
| Paper | Marks | Question | What the answer needs |
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| English | Essay | Choose one: (1) Agri-logistics: railways vs roadways (2) Climate change and biodiversity (3) Issues of the manufacturing sector. | Agri-logistics: cost, speed, wastage, cold chain, Kisan Rail, Dedicated Freight Corridors, last-mile road links → balanced conclusion. ▶ Essay writing strategy |
| English | Précis (130 words) | Passage on electric vehicles. | Central idea (EV adoption, benefits, barriers) → drop examples and figures → about one-third of the original, in your own words. |
| English | Letter | Formal: a letter seeking replacement of faulty furniture, or a letter to the housing society secretary. Informal: a letter to your manager congratulating him on his promotion. | Formal: format, subject, issue, request. Informal: warm tone, specific achievement, wishes. |
NABARD 2022 Phase 2 ESI & ARD descriptive questions
| Paper | Marks | Question | What the answer needs |
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| ESI | 15 (choice) | The PDS plays a crucial part in the food economy, but there are certain lacunae in it. Discuss. OR Investment in social infrastructure is a prerequisite for inclusive growth. Discuss in the Indian context. | PDS: importance → problems (leakage, exclusion, targeting) → reforms (ONORC, ePoS, DBT pilots) → conclusion. |
| ARD | 15 (600 words, compulsory) | Discuss the objectives of Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) and highlight its important components. | Objectives → central sector and centrally sponsored components → initiatives (PM-MKSSY, fisheries infrastructure) → outcomes. |
| ARD | 10 (choice) | What are the key objectives of the National Rural Livelihood Mission? What are its features and components? OR What is social forestry? What are its objectives, facets and economic benefits? | Objectives → institution building → financial inclusion → livelihoods. |
| ESI | 10 (400 words, compulsory) | How has globalisation benefited the Indian economy? | Trade, FDI, technology, services exports and jobs → agriculture angle → risks → balance. |
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