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Agriculture

B.Sc · Semester 3

6 महीनेअवधि 9Subjects 46Chapters ऑनलाइनTests & result
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    Admission & first meetingप्रवेश और पहली मुलाकात

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  2. 2
    Semester 3 — subject classesसेमेस्टर 3 — विषयवार कक्षाएँ

    Every theory subject of the term, unit by unit, with notes, numericals and doubt classes.

    Crop Production Technology-I (Kharif Crops)Fundamentals of Plant BreedingAgricultural Finance and CooperationAgri-InformaticsFarm Machinery and PowerProduction Technology for Vegetables and SpicesEnvironmental Studies and Disaster ManagementStatistical MethodsLivestock and Poultry Management
  3. 3
    Unit tests & mid-termयूनिट टेस्ट और मिड-टर्म

    A test after every unit and a mid-term in the university / board pattern.

  4. 4
    Semester 3 mock testमॉक टेस्ट

    A full mock test of all subjects before the exam, with analysis.

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    Semester 3 exam (university / board)सेमेस्टर / वार्षिक परीक्षा

    Previous papers, important questions and full revision.

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    Online tests & resultऑनलाइन टेस्ट और रिज़ल्ट

    Take the tests online; your marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.

सिलेबस · पाठ्यक्रम

9 subjects · 46 chapters · 185 topics

Crop Production Technology-I (Kharif Crops)5 chapters · 6 Months Subject page →
01Unit 1: Rice 5 टॉपिक
  1. Origin, distribution and climate
  2. Nursery raising and transplanting
  3. Direct seeding and SRI
  4. Nutrient and water management
  5. Harvesting and yield
02Unit 2: Maize, Sorghum and Millets 4 टॉपिक
  1. Maize: package of practices
  2. Sorghum: package of practices
  3. Pearl millet and finger millet
  4. Seed rate and plant population
03Unit 3: Kharif Pulses 4 टॉपिक
  1. Pigeonpea
  2. Green gram and black gram
  3. Cowpea
  4. Rhizobium inoculation
04Unit 4: Kharif Oilseeds 4 टॉपिक
  1. Groundnut
  2. Soybean
  3. Sesame
  4. Sunflower (kharif)
05Unit 5: Fibre and Fodder Crops 4 टॉपिक
  1. Cotton including Bt cotton
  2. Jute and retting
  3. Kharif fodder: sorghum, maize, cowpea
  4. Napier grass
Fundamentals of Plant Breeding5 chapters · 6 Months Subject page →
01Unit 1: Introduction and Centres of Origin 4 टॉपिक
  1. Meaning, objectives and history of plant breeding
  2. Achievements in India
  3. Domestication and centres of origin (Vavilov)
  4. Plant genetic resources
02Unit 2: Modes of Reproduction and Pollination Control 5 टॉपिक
  1. Sexual and asexual reproduction
  2. Apomixis
  3. Self- and cross-pollination
  4. Self-incompatibility and male sterility
  5. Emasculation and hybridisation technique
03Unit 3: Breeding Self-pollinated Crops 4 टॉपिक
  1. Pure line theory and pure line selection
  2. Mass selection
  3. Pedigree and bulk methods
  4. Backcross method
04Unit 4: Breeding Cross-pollinated Crops 4 टॉपिक
  1. Population improvement and mass selection
  2. Recurrent selection
  3. Synthetic and composite varieties
  4. Mutation and polyploidy breeding
05Unit 5: Heterosis, Hybrids and Seed Production 4 टॉपिक
  1. Heterosis and inbreeding depression
  2. Hybrid development: A, B and R lines
  3. Seed classes: nucleus, breeder, foundation, certified
  4. Variety release and notification
Agricultural Finance and Cooperation5 chapters · 6 Months Subject page →
01Unit 1: Agricultural Finance and Credit 4 टॉपिक
  1. Meaning and scope of agricultural finance
  2. Classification of credit by time, purpose and security
  3. 3 Rs and 3 Cs of credit
  4. Interest calculation and repayment plans
02Unit 2: Financial Institutions and Schemes 5 टॉपिक
  1. Commercial banks and lead bank scheme
  2. Regional Rural Banks
  3. Cooperative credit structure
  4. NABARD
  5. Kisan Credit Card and scale of finance
03Unit 3: Crop Insurance and Risk 3 टॉपिक
  1. Risk and uncertainty in agriculture
  2. Crop insurance in India
  3. Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
04Unit 4: Farm Financial Analysis 4 टॉपिक
  1. Balance sheet
  2. Income statement
  3. Cash flow statement
  4. Financial ratios
05Unit 5: Cooperation 4 टॉपिक
  1. Meaning and principles of cooperation
  2. History of cooperation: Rochdale and India
  3. Three-tier cooperative credit structure
  4. Marketing, dairy and fertiliser cooperatives
Agri-Informatics5 chapters · 6 Months Subject page →
01Unit 1: Computer Fundamentals 4 टॉपिक
  1. Components of a computer: input, output, CPU, memory
  2. हार्डवेयर और सॉफ्टवेयर
  3. Memory units
  4. Operating systems
02Unit 2: Office Applications and Internet 4 टॉपिक
  1. Word processing
  2. Spreadsheets: formulas, functions and charts
  3. प्रेज़ेंटेशन्स
  4. Internet, WWW and e-mail
03Unit 3: Databases and Decision Support Systems 4 टॉपिक
  1. Database concepts and DBMS
  2. Decision support systems
  3. Expert systems in agriculture
  4. Crop simulation models: DSSAT, InfoCrop
04Unit 4: ICT in Agriculture 4 टॉपिक
  1. e-Agriculture concepts
  2. Kisan Call Centre and mKisan
  3. e-NAM, AGMARKNET and Soil Health Card portal
  4. Mobile apps for farmers
05Unit 5: Remote Sensing, GIS and Precision Agriculture 4 टॉपिक
  1. Remote sensing and vegetation indices
  2. GIS and its applications
  3. GPS
  4. Precision farming
Farm Machinery and Power5 chapters · 6 Months Subject page →
01Unit 1: Sources of Farm Power 3 टॉपिक
  1. Human, animal, mechanical, electrical and renewable power
  2. Power available from man and bullocks
  3. Farm mechanisation in India
02Unit 2: IC Engines 4 टॉपिक
  1. Engine terms: bore, stroke, displacement, compression ratio
  2. Four-stroke and two-stroke cycles
  3. Petrol (SI) and diesel (CI) engines
  4. Fuel, cooling and lubrication systems
03Unit 3: Tractors and Power Transmission 4 टॉपिक
  1. Types of tractors
  2. Clutch, gear box, differential and final drive
  3. Hydraulic system and three-point linkage
  4. Power take-off (PTO)
04Unit 4: Tillage and Sowing Machinery 4 टॉपिक
  1. Primary tillage: mould board and disc ploughs
  2. Secondary tillage: harrows, cultivators, rotavator
  3. Seed drills, planters and transplanters
  4. Field capacity and field efficiency
05Unit 5: Plant Protection, Harvesting and Threshing Machinery 4 टॉपिक
  1. Sprayers and dusters
  2. Reapers and combine harvesters
  3. Threshers
  4. Safety in farm machinery
Production Technology for Vegetables and Spices5 chapters · 6 Months Subject page →
01Unit 1: Introduction and Nursery Management 4 टॉपिक
  1. Importance and scope of vegetables and spices
  2. Classification of vegetables
  3. Nursery raising and hardening of seedlings
  4. Kitchen garden
02Unit 2: Solanaceous and Malvaceous Vegetables 4 टॉपिक
  1. Tomato
  2. Brinjal
  3. Chilli and capsicum
  4. Okra
03Unit 3: Cole, Root, Bulb and Tuber Crops 4 टॉपिक
  1. Cabbage and cauliflower
  2. Radish and carrot
  3. Onion and garlic
  4. Potato
04Unit 4: Cucurbits and Leguminous Vegetables 3 टॉपिक
  1. Cucumber, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, pumpkin
  2. Sex expression in cucurbits
  3. Garden pea and French bean
05Unit 5: Spice Crops 4 टॉपिक
  1. Black pepper and cardamom
  2. Ginger and turmeric
  3. Coriander, cumin, fenugreek
  4. Post-harvest processing of spices
Environmental Studies and Disaster Management5 chapters · 6 Months Subject page →
01Unit 1: Natural Resources 4 टॉपिक
  1. Multidisciplinary nature of environmental studies
  2. Forest, water and mineral resources
  3. Food, land and energy resources
  4. Renewable and non-renewable resources
02Unit 2: Ecosystems 5 टॉपिक
  1. Structure and function of an ecosystem
  2. Producers, consumers and decomposers
  3. Food chains, food webs and energy flow
  4. Ecological pyramids
  5. Forest, grassland, desert and aquatic ecosystems
03Unit 3: Biodiversity and Conservation 4 टॉपिक
  1. Levels of biodiversity
  2. Biodiversity hotspots and India as a megadiverse country
  3. Threats to biodiversity
  4. In-situ and ex-situ conservation
04Unit 4: Environmental Pollution and Global Issues 4 टॉपिक
  1. Air, water, soil, noise and thermal pollution
  2. Solid waste management
  3. Climate change, global warming and ozone depletion
  4. Environment Protection Act and international protocols
05Unit 5: Disaster Management 4 टॉपिक
  1. Natural disasters: flood, drought, cyclone, earthquake, landslide
  2. Man-made disasters
  3. Disaster management cycle
  4. Disaster Management Act 2005, NDMA and NDRF
Statistical Methods6 chapters · 6 Months Subject page →
01Unit 1: Data and Its Presentation 4 टॉपिक
  1. Meaning and scope of statistics in agriculture
  2. Primary and secondary data
  3. Classification and frequency distribution
  4. Diagrams and graphs
02Unit 2: Measures of Central Tendency 4 टॉपिक
  1. Arithmetic mean
  2. Median
  3. मोड
  4. Relationship between mean, median and mode
03Unit 3: Measures of Dispersion 4 टॉपिक
  1. Range
  2. Variance and standard deviation
  3. Coefficient of variation
  4. Skewness and kurtosis (basics)
04Unit 4: Probability and Distributions 4 टॉपिक
  1. Basic probability
  2. Binomial distribution
  3. Poisson distribution
  4. Normal distribution
05Unit 5: Correlation and Regression 4 टॉपिक
  1. Scatter diagram
  2. Karl Pearson's correlation coefficient
  3. Regression lines and coefficients
  4. Properties of r and b
06Unit 6: Tests of Significance 4 टॉपिक
  1. Sampling, hypothesis and level of significance
  2. t-test
  3. Chi-square test
  4. F-test and introduction to ANOVA
Livestock and Poultry Management5 chapters · 6 Months Subject page →
01Unit 1: Livestock and Breeds 4 टॉपिक
  1. Role of livestock in the national economy
  2. Indian and exotic breeds of cattle
  3. Breeds of buffalo
  4. Breeds of sheep and goat
02Unit 2: Housing and Feeding 4 टॉपिक
  1. Housing systems for dairy animals
  2. Feeds and fodders: roughages and concentrates
  3. Thumb rules for feeding
  4. Care of the newborn calf and colostrum
03Unit 3: Breeding and Reproduction 4 टॉपिक
  1. Oestrous cycle and heat detection
  2. Artificial insemination
  3. Gestation and care of the pregnant animal
  4. Breeding systems
04Unit 4: Livestock Health 4 टॉपिक
  1. Signs of health and sickness
  2. Common bacterial and viral diseases
  3. Vaccination schedule
  4. Parasite control and hygiene
05Unit 5: Poultry Management 4 टॉपिक
  1. Breeds of poultry: layers and broilers
  2. Incubation and hatching
  3. Brooding and rearing of chicks
  4. Poultry housing, feeding and diseases

About this course

आप यह कर पाएँगे

  • Complete Crop Production Technology-I (Kharif Crops) syllabus with regular tests
  • Complete Fundamentals of Plant Breeding syllabus with regular tests
  • Complete Agricultural Finance and Cooperation syllabus with regular tests
  • Complete Agri-Informatics syllabus with regular tests
  • Complete Farm Machinery and Power syllabus with regular tests
  • Complete Production Technology for Vegetables and Spices syllabus with regular tests
  • Complete Environmental Studies and Disaster Management syllabus with regular tests
  • Complete Statistical Methods syllabus with regular tests

यह किसके लिए है

  • B.Sc (Hons.) Agriculture students of Semester 3 (ICAR 5th Deans' Committee syllabus)
  • Students of UP agriculture colleges preparing for semester exams or back papers
  • Aspirants revising basics for ICAR / state agriculture exams

आपको क्या चाहिए

  • Fundamentals of Agronomy (Semester 1)
  • Calculator for seed rate and fertiliser numericals
Online tests & result Practice and unit tests online; marks and result show in your student login and at the centre. Student login →

सवाल

Which syllabus does this course follow?

It follows the ICAR 5th Deans' Committee syllabus of B.Sc (Hons.) Agriculture, Semester 3, used by UP agricultural universities and agriculture colleges.

What if my university syllabus is different?

The centre follows your own university's syllabus and previous papers; units missing here are added for your batch.

Does it help for competitive exams?

Yes - the same topics are asked in ICAR AIEEA PG, JRF, state agriculture officer and banking AFO exams.

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