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Entrance Exam : IARI Ph.D. Entrance Examination 2016-17

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IARI Ph.D Entrance Syllabus

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).

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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 questions of the 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 & III Subject Paper

Agricultural Chemicals

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 compounds; 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.

Agricultural Economics

Basic concepts in economics, theory of consumer demand, theory of production, market classification, theory of perfect and imperfect competition, theory of distribution, national income accounting, classical and Keynesian theories of income determination, money-concepts, functions, theories of demand for money, supply of money; general equilibrium of product and money markets; IS and LM functions; monetary and fiscal policies, banking – central and commercial, functions and problems of recent macro-economic policies of Government of India; research methodology, steps in agricultural economics research, data collection, analysis and report writing; differential and integral calculus, differential equations, matrix algebra, solution of simultaneous linear equations, linear programming, statistical inference, correlation and regression analysis, time series analysis and theory of index numbers.

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 cooperatives, 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.