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Entrance Exam : IARI Ph.D. Entrance Examination 2015
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SYLLABI FOR ENTRANCE EXAMINATION FOR Ph.D. :
The Entrance Examination will be in the form of one question paper of three distinct parts. The questions will be of multiple choice and matching types in part I & II (30 marks and 150 marks respectively) and short analytical type in part III (30 marks). Answers for part I & II are to be given on computerized OMR answer sheets (see Annexure-VII) and that of part III in the space provided for the purpose in the question paper. Negative marking to the extent of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer will be applicable in case of part I and II of the question paper.
Part-I : General Agriculture
Reference Book : Handbook of Agriculture (Sixth Revised Edition), published by the ICAR.
PART-I : GENERAL AGRICULTURE :
Importance of Agriculture in national economy; basic principles of crop production; cultivation of rice, wheat, pigeonpea, sugarcane, tomato, cauliflower, mango and rose.
Weathering of rocks; soil formation, major soils of India, soil erosion and its control; common farm implements; role of NPK and their deficiency symptoms; manures (FYM, compost and green manure) and fertilizers (urea, diammonium phosphate, single superphosphate and muriate of potash).
Structure and function and cell organelles – mitosis and meiosis; gametogenesis, fertilization and embryogenesis; chromosomal and extra-chromosomal basis of inheritance; mutation and polyploidy; selection methods, hybridization, backcross; plant growth regulators; elementary knowledge of photosynthesis, respiration and nitrogen fixation.
Isomerism; titrimetry and volumetry; structure and function of carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, enzymes and vitamins.
Major pests and diseases of rice, maize, pulses, oilseeds, vegetables, wheat, cotton, sugarcane and their management.
Important principles of economics, structural transformation in economy and its globalization; principles of extension education; important rural development programmes in India; organizational set up of agricultural research, education and extension in India, elements of statistics.
PART-II AND III: SUBJECT PAPER
AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS (01)
Nomenclature and classification of organic compounds, chemical bonding; isomerism and stereo chemistry; properties and reactions of organic functional groups; aliphatic, alicyclic, aromatic and heterocyclic compounds; theory and application of chromatography and spectroscopy (IR, UV, NMR) in the study of organic compunds; chemistry of natural products; mono and sesqui-terpenes, steroids (cholesterol and Vitamin D), alkaloids (pyrrolidine, piperidine, pyridine, pyrole groups), lipids, carbohydrates, plant pigments, nucleic acids, amino acids and proteins.
Chemical equilibria; chemical kinetics, kinetic theory of gases, thermodynamics; surface chemistry, colloids, emulsions. Titrimetry, theory of indicators; redox reactions.
Classification of pesticides; chemistry of botanical pesticides (pyrethroids, rotenoids, nicotinoids) and synthetic insecticides (DDT, BHC, cyclodienes, malathion, methyl parathion, monocrotophos, phorate, carbaryl, carbofuran), fungicides (Bordeaux mixture, zineb, captan, ziram), herbicides (2,4-D, atrazine, diuron and butachlor), fumigants (EDB, EDCT, aluminium phosphide), rodenticides (Warfarin) and nematicide (nemagon); pesticide formulation – definition and classification, surfactants; pesticide residue chemistry.
Essential plant nutrients; chemistry, technology and use of important fertilizers; clays and clay minerals; soil organic matter, nitrification and denitrification; N2-fixation; radioactivity and radiotracer techniques.
Nature and scope of agricultural production economics vis-a-vis farm management; farm business analysis, farm records and farm cost accounting; farm planning and budgeting, production function and resource allocation; cost, profit and supply functions; nature and analysis of risk in farming; systems approach in farming; role of credit in agriculture, principles of agricultural finance, farm financial management, supply and demand for farm credit; recent innovations in the extension of credit to agriculture, theory and practice of co-operation; problems of co- operatives, management of co-operative institutions; cost-benefit analysis of agricultural projects.
Scope of marketing in a developing economy; practice and problems of marketing agricultural inputs and outputs; functions and channels of marketing, co-operative marketing; agricultural price analysis; demand analysis; problems and prospects of storage and processing of agricultural products; agricultural exports – problems and prospects.
Theory of growth and growth models; agricultural policy, planning and development in India, inter-regional variations in agricultural development, agricultural technology and income distribution; agrarian reforms and output and input price policies; infrastructure and institutions for agricultural development, equity and ecological consideration in agricultural development.