JRF exam syllabus for Agronomy

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JRF exam syllabus for Agronomy

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Junior Research Fellowship in Agronomy
SYLLABUS
Standard: M.Sc. (Agriculture) in Agronomy of Indian University.
1. Agrometeorology:
What is agrometeorology; weather forecasting; water balance model;
available moisture index model; factors limiting growth, development
and yield of crop as affected by light, temperature, humidity and
precipitation. Growth and development in adverse environmental
conditions like drought, flood.
2. Basic Agronomy:
The inventory of potentialities in a) climate, b) soil types, c) irrigation,
d) manure and fertilizers, and e) package of practices, and their
utilization.
3. Crop improvement:
Mechanism of variability and selection-seed production and
distribution, seed testing and certification and storage of seedsdescription
and variety improvement of cereals (rice, wheat, maize),
pulses (gram, pigeon pea, green gram, black gram), oilseeds (rape
mustard, groundnut, linseed, sesame) and commercial crops (jute,
sugarcane, potato).
4. Crop growth and nutrition:
Growth and development in adverse conditions like acidity, salinity
and alkalinity of soil. Role of nutrient elements- major and minor.
Factors affecting their availability.
5. Soil fertility and water management:
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Soil fertility problems; role of organic matter, soil reaction and crop
rotation in soil fertility; important manure and fertilizers including
biofertilizers, their application and behaviour in different soils; soil
testing methods and fertilizer recommendation; role of water in plant
development and crop production; systems of irrigation and drainage;
irrigation requirement of different field crops.
6. Crop husbandry:
Advanced studies in the cultural practices of rice, wheat, maize,
cotton, jute, potato, forage crops, pulses and oilseeds; economics of
crop production; different cropping systems including inter and mixed
cropping.
7. Field experimentation:
Objects and trends in agronomic experiments; application, layout and
analysis of data of principal experimental designs viz. Randomized
block, Latin squares, factorial experiments, split-plot and confounding;
computation of linear and curvilinear regressions and their uses.

1. The interculture operation in standing broadcast rice crop commonly known as
(a) Thinning (b) Spudding (c) Rotation (d) Beushening
2. For getting 10% advantage, the LER should be
(a) 1.00 (b) 0.50 (c) 1.10 (d) 110
3. From the following select one medium duration rice cultivar
(a) Pankaj (b) Masuri (c) Jaya (d) Sabita.
4. The optimum row spacing of wheat is
(a) 22.5cm (b) 15.5cm (c) 30cm (d) 5cm.
5. Triple super phosphate is
(a) Water soluble (b) alkali soluble (c) Acid soluble (d) Citrate soluble.
6. The optimum temperature for germination of rice seeds is
(a) 18 - 200 C (b) 20 - 220 C (c) 30 - 320 C (d) 37 - 390 C
7. Which one of the following parts of the tobacco plant synthesises nicotine?
(a) Root (b) Stem (c) Branch (d) Leaf
8. LER is a index to assess
(a) Light intensity (b) Intercropping advantage (c) Crop rotation advantage (d)
Leaf area.
9. Which of the following disease affects young seedlings at nursery stage
(a) Fusarium wilt (b) Little leaf (c) Early blight (d) Damping off.
10. In a RBD experiment with ten sowing dates of wheat replicated thrice, the
error MSS value is estimated as 24.6. Select the correct CD value.
(t at 0.05 P = 2.101)
(a) 5.32 (b) 7.57 (c) 8.51 (d) 10.02.
11. Alluvial soil according to soil taxonomical classification can be called as
(a) Entisol (b) Vertisol (c) Ultisol (d) Oxisol.
12. IW/CPE ratio in wheat under alluvial soil condition is
(a) 0.92 (b) 0.88 (c) 0.78 (d) 0.67.
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13. Which should be lime requirement of a sandy loam lateritic soil with pH
5.4?
(a) 5.3 q/ha (b) 10.5 q/ha (c) 14.2 q/ha (d) 16.8 q/ha.
14. In a 120 days rice variety initiation of panicle primordia is noticed after
(a) 40 (b) 50 (c) 60 (d) 70 (Days after transplanting)
15. In an intercropped plot mixture of ij and ji crop yielded 3867 and 1254
kg/ha respectively whereas as sole crops ii and jj yielded 4775 and 4321
kg/ha. LER calculated is
(a) 1.10 (b) 1.34 (c) 1.00 (d) 1.24

1. What is LER? How is LER calculated? What are the differences between
inter and mixed cropping? State the importance of intercropping.
2. State the criteria for essentiality of nutrients for plant? State the roles of Mo
and B in crop nutrition. Classify phosphatic fertilizers.
3. What are the different forms of soil water? What is available Water? What is
wilting point? State how soil moisture may be conserved for crops?
4. What is the dominant pulse crop in India? Write down its climatic
requirements and rotations followed with this crop. Name five improved
varieties of this crop.
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JRF exam syllabus for Agronomy

UNIT-I: General: Importance of Agriculture in national economy; basic principles of crop production; cultivation of rice, wheat, chickpea, pigeon-pea, sugarcane, groundnut, rapeseed and mustard, potato. Major soils of India, role of NPK and their deficiency symptoms. Structure and function of cell organelles; mitosis and meiosis; Mendelian genetics: elementary knowledge of photosynthesis; respiration, photo-respiration and transpiration; structure and functions of carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, enzymes and vitamins. Major pests and diseases of rice, wheat, cotton, chickpea, sugarcane and their management. Important rural development programmes in India; organizational set up of agricultural research, education and extension in India; Elements of statistics.

UNIT-II: Principles of Agronomy, Crop ecology and geography and Agricultural Meteorology: Agronomy –meaning and scope, National & International agricultural research institutes in India, Agro climatic zones of India, Tillage, crop stand establishment and planting geometry and their effect on crop, Physiological limits of crop yield and variability in relation to ecological optima, organic farming, Precision farming, Integrated farming systems, Principles of field experimentation. Principles of crop ecology and crop adaptation, climate shift and its ecological implications, Agro-ecological regions in India, Geographical distribution of crop plants, Greenhouse effect, Climatic factors and their effect on plant processes and crop productivity, Role of GIS and GPS in agriculture. Weather & climate, Earth’s atmosphere, Solar radiation, Atmospheric temperature and global warming. Crops and atmospheric humidity, Weather forecasting.

UNIT-III: Field crops: Origin, distribution, economic importance, soil and climatic requirement, varieties, cultural practices and yield of cereals ( rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, minor millets, barley), pulses (chickpea, lentil, peas, Pigeon pea, mungbean, urdbean), oil-seeds (groundnut, sesame, soybean, rapeseed & mustard, sunflower, safflower, linseed), fiber crops (cotton, jute, sun hemp), sugar crops(sugarcane), fodder & forage crops (sorghum, maize, napier, berseem, Lucerne, oats), medicinal & aromatic plants (menthe, lemon grass and isabgol) and commercial crops(potato, tobacco).

UNIT-IV: Weed management: Principles of weed management, Classification, biology and ecology of weeds, crop weed competition and allelopathy, concepts and methods of weed control, Integrated weed management,Classification, formulations, selectivity and resistance of herbicides, Herbicide persistence in soil and plants, Application methods and equipment, Weed flora shifts in cropping systems, Special and problematic weeds and their management in cropped and non-cropped situations, Weed management in field crops.

UNIT-V: Water management: Principles of irrigation, Water resources and irrigation development in India, Water and irrigation requirements, Concepts and approaches of irrigation scheduling, Methods of irrigation, Measurement of irrigation water, application, distribution and use efficiencies, Conjunctive use of water, Irrigation water quality and its management, water management in major field, crops (rice, wheat, maize, groundnut, sugarcane) Agricultural drainage.

UNIT-VI: Soil fertility and fertilizer use: Essential plant nutrients and their deficiency symptoms, concept of essentiality of plant nutrients, Indicators of soil fertility and productivity, Fertilizer materials and their availability to plants, slow release fertilizers, Nitrification inhibitors, Principles and methods of fertilizer application, Integrated nutrient management, site specific nutrient management.

UNIT-VII: Dryland Agronomy: Characteristics of Dryland farming and delineation of Dryland tracts, constraints of Dryland farming in India, Types of drought and their management, contingency crop planning and mid- season corrections for aberrant weather and its recycling. Watershed management.

UNIT-VIII: Problem soils : Problem soils and their distribution in India, Characteristics and reclamation of these soils, Crop production techniques in problem soils.

UNIT-IX: Sustainable land use systems: Sustainable agriculture: parameters and indicators, Conservation agriculture, safe disposal of agri-industrial waste for crop production, Agro-forestry systems, shifting cultivation, Alternate land use systems, Wastelands and their remediation for crop production

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