🌛 Paper I Strategy

Paper I

Agronomy

1. Cropping patterns in different agro-climatic zones of the country.
2. Impact of high yielding and short-duration varieties on shifts in cropping patterns.
3. Concepts of various cropping and farming systems.
4. Organic and Precision farming.
5. Package of practices for production of important cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fibres, sugar, commercial and fodder crops.

📚 Recommended Matterial

• SR Reddy
• Reddy & Reddy
• Rajendra Prasad
• AgriDots Notes

Weed Science

1. Weeds - their characteristics.
2. Dissemination and association with various crops; their multiplications.
3. Cultural, biological, and chemical control of weeds.

📚 Recommended Matterial

• TK Das, Evolution Notes
• AgriDots Notes

Soil Science and Nutrient Management

1. Soil - physical, chemical and biological properties.
2. Processes and factors of soil formation.
3. Soils of India.
4. Mineral and organic constituents of soils and their role in maintaining soil productivity.
5. Essential plant nutrients and other beneficial elements in soils and plants.
6. Principles of soil fertility, soil testing and fertilizer recommendations.
7. Integrated nutrient management.
8. Biofertilizers.
9. Losses of nitrogen in soil, nitrogen-use efficiency in submerged rice soils, nitrogen fixation in soils.
10. Efficient phosphorus and potassium use.
11. Problem soils and their reclamation.
12. Soil factors affecting greenhouse gas emission.

📚 Recommended Matterial

• DK Das
• AgriDots Notes

Soil and Water Conservation

1. Soil conservation.
2. Integrated watershed management.
3. Soil erosion and its management. Dry land agriculture and its problems.
4. Technology for stabilizing agriculture production in rain fed areas.
5. Water-use efficiency in relation to crop production.
6. Criteria for scheduling irrigations.
7. Ways and means of reducing runoff losses of irrigation water.
8. Rainwater harvesting.
9. Drip and sprinkler irrigation.
10. Drainage of waterlogged soils.
11. Quality of irrigation water.
12. Effect of industrial effluents on soil and water pollution.
13. Irrigation projects in India.

📚 Recommended Matterial

• AgriDots Notes

Ecology

1. Ecology and its relevance to man.
2. Natural resources, their sustainable management and conservation.
3. Physical and social environment as factors of crop distribution and production.
4. Agro ecology; cropping pattern as indicators of environments.
5. Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals and humans.
6. Climate change - International conventions and global initiatives.
7. Greenhouse effect and global warming.
8. Advance tools for ecosystem analysis - Remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

📚 Recommended Matterial

• SR Reddy (Chapter 2nd), Evolution Notes
• Internet
• AgriDots Notes

Forestry

1. Important features and scope.
2. Various types of forestry plantations such as social forestry, agro-forestry, and natural forests.
3. Propagation of forest plants.
4. Forest products. Agro forestry and value addition.
5. Conservation of forest flora and fauna.

📚 Recommended Matterial

• Manikandan
• AgriDots Notes

Agricultural Economics

1. Farm management, scope, importance and characteristics, farm planning.
2. Optimum resource use and budgeting.
3. Economics of different types of farming systems.
4. Marketing management - strategies for development, market intelligence.
5. Price fluctuations and their cost; role of co-operatives in agricultural economy.
6. Types and systems of farming and factors affecting them.
7. Agricultural price policy.
8. Crop Insurance.

📚 Recommended Matterial

• Farm Mangaement - V.T. Raju
• AgriDots Notes

Agricultural Extension

1. Agricultural extension, its importance and role.
2. Methods of evaluation of extension programmes.
3. Socio-economic survey and status of big, small and marginal farmers and landless agricultural labourers.
4. Training programmes for extension workers.
5. Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s (KVK) in dissemination of Agricultural technologies.
6. Non-Government Organization (NGO) and self-help group approach for rural development.

📚 Recommended Matterial

• GL Ray
• AgriDots Notes

Importnat Points

• PYQs will make your foundation. So, analyse and enlist them from the year 2000 and segregated them into subject wise taken from syllabus.
• Practice answer writing of these PYQs.
• PYQs will give you the correct idea that what things are important for the exam. So that you apply the 80 - 20 rule, to prepare in less time.
• Always make micro notes of each subject, chaper wise. So that the main points, examples, scientific names, important definitions (learn as it is), current data, new research findings etc. could be remembed till the exams.
• Try as much you can, to write only scientic words in definitions. Don’t write general random words for defining something. As agriculture is science subject. Try to be precise to get good marks.