ICAR JRF Agronomy Online Course

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About the course

• Validity - 1 Year

• It is a progressive course, videos and study material

       will be regularly uploaded as per weekly Time Table

Inside the Course

• Recorded Video Lectures

• Study Material - PDF

• Test Series

Course covered the following topics

Unit-1: 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, photorespiration 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;

• Organisational set up of agricultural research, education and extension in India;

• Elements of statistics

Unit-2: 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-3: Field Crops

• Cultivation of cereals ( rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, minor millets

barley)

• Cultivation of pulses (chickpea, lentil, peas, Pigeon pea, mungbean, urdbean),

• Cultivation of oilseeds (groundnut, sesame, soybean, rapeseed & mustard,

sunflower, safflower, linseed)

• Cultivation of fibre crops (cotton, jute, sun hemp)

• Cultivation of sugar crops(sugarcane)

• Cultivation of fodder & forage crops (sorghum, maize, napier, berseem

Lucerne, oats),

• Cultivation of medicinal & aromatic plants (menthe, lemon grass and isabgol)

• Cultivation of commercial crops (potato, tobacco).

Unit-4: 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-5: 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 e.g., crops (rice, wheat, maize, groundnut,

• sugarcane)

• Agricultural drainage.

Unit-6: Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Use

• Essential plant nutrients and their deficiency symptoms.

• Concept of essentially 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-7: Dry land 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-8: Problem Soil

• Problem soils and their distribution in India.

• Characteristics and reclamation of these soils.

• Crop production techniques in problem soils.

Unit-9: Sustainable Land Use System

• 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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