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sir i want to known about the syllabus for jrf qualification from agronomy. Can you explain ?

This the Syllabus for JRF 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:2
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

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ICMR [Indian Council of Agricultural Research] conducts selection test for JRF [Junior Research Fellowship] in Agriculture and Ecology. Syllabus consists of full syllabus for the degree of M.Sc. in Agriculture Agronomy. Please see the file attached for detailed syllabus and model questions.

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