ICAR NET Syllabus 2023 PDF Previous Year Question Papers Pattern

ICAR NET Syllabus

Dear aspirants, welcome to ejobshub.in ICAR NET syllabus page. Every year Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board
(ASRB) is conducts a National Eligibility Test (NET) to examine the eligibility for the post of Lecturer/ Assistant Professor in agricultural universities. Here we are providing you complete information of ICAR NET syllabus with their previous year question papers pattern details. In ICAR NET exam will conduct in this year (Tentative).

Where I know aspirants will need ICAR NET exam syllabus very earlier for better preparation. There are only one paper will conduct of 150 marks. The question paper will consist total 150 multiple choice objective type questions. Only two hours will provide you to solve the complete question paper. There are no extra time will offer you to solve ICAR NET exam paper.

If you will give a wrong answer of any question then 1/3 mark will deduct from your answer sheet. So please solve only that question, which you can solve confidently.

Required marks details for qualifying ICAR NET examination

Category	Percentage of marks
(UR) (General) / OBC(Creamy layer)	55%
OBC(Non-Creamy layer)	50%
SC / ST/ Physically Challenged(PC) Person	45%

Dear aspirants your question paper will be set in both languages Hindi and English. Aspirants must fill their answer on OMR answer sheet by black ball point pen. No other color pen will be used in exam.

ICAR NET Syllabus Overview

ICAR NET Agronomy Syllabus

Unit 1 : Crop Ecology and Geography

Principles of crop ecology

Ecosystem concept and determinants of productivity of ecosystem

Physiological limits of crop yield and variability in relation to ecological optima

Crop adaptation

Climate shift and its ecological implication

Greenhouse effect

Agro-ecological and agro climatic regions of lndia

Geographical distribution of cereals, legumes, oilseeds, vegetables, fodders and forages, commercial crops, condiments and spices, medicinal and aromatic plants

Adverse climatic factors and crop productivity

Photosynthesis, respiration, net assimilation, solar energy conversion efficiency and relative water content, light intensity, water and CO2 in relation to photosynthetic rates and efficiency

Physiological stress in crops

Remote sensing

Spectral indices and their application in agriculture

crop water stressindices and crop stress detection

Unit 2 : Weed Management

Scope and principles of weed management

Weeds’ classification, biology, ecology and allelopathy

Crop weed competition, weed threshold

Herbicides classification, formulations, mode of action, selectivity and resistance

Persistence of herbicides in soils and plants

Application methods and equipment

Biological weed control, bioherbicides

Integrated weed management

Special weeds, parasitic and aquatic weeds and their management in cropped and non cropped lands

weed control schedules in field crops, vegetables and plantation crops

Role of GM crops in weed management

Unit 3 : Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Use

History of soil fertility and fertilizer use

Concept of essentiality of plant nutrients, their critical concentrations in plants, nutrient interactions, diagnostic techniques with special emphasis on emerging deficiencies of secondary and micro-nutrients

Soil fertility and productivity and their indicators

Fertilizer materials including liquid fertilizers, their composition, mineralization, availability and reaction products in soils

Water solubility of phosphate fertilizers

Slow release fertilizers, nitrification inhibitors and their use for crop production

Principles and methods of fertilizer application

Integrated nutrient management and bio-fertilizers

Agronomic and physiological efficiency and recovery of applied plant nutrients

Criteria for determining fertilizer schedules for cropping systems direct, residual and cumulative effects

Fertilizer related environmental problems including ground water pollution

Site-specific nutrient management

Contamination of heavy metals in peri-urban soils and their remediation.

Unit 4 : Dryland Agronomy

Concept of dryland farming; dryland farming vs rainfed farming

History, development, significance and constraints of dryland agriculture in India

Climatic classification and delineation of dryland tracts

Characterization of agro-climatic environments of drylands

Rainfall analysis and length of growing season

Types of drought, drought syndrome, effect on plant growth, drought resistance, drought avoidance, drought management

Crop Planning including contingency, crop diversification, varieties, cropping systems, conservation cropping and mid-season corrections for aberrant weather conditions

Techniques of moisture conservation insitu to reduce evapotranspiration, runoff and to increase infiltration

Rain water harvesting and recycling concept, techniques and practices

Timelines and precision key factors for timely sowing, precision in seeding, weed control

Fertilizer placement, top dressing and foliar application, aqua-fertigation

Concept and importance of watershed management in dryland areas

ICAR NET Economic Botany & Plant Genetic Resources Syllabus

Unit 1 : Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics

Nomenclature, purpose, principles and systems of classification

Taxonomy of higher plants, floras, manuals, monographs, index, catalogues and dictionaries, herbaria

Concepts of biosystematics, evolution and differentiation of species

Biosystematic and taxonomic tools

Origin, evolution and biosystematics of selected crops (rice, wheat, rape seed & mustard, cotton)

Unit 2 : Economically important plants –I

Origin, history, domestication, botany, genetic resource activities, cultivation, production and use of:

Cereals: Wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, pearl millet and minor millets.

Pulses: Pigeon pea, chickpea, black gram, green gram, cowpea, soyabean, pea, lentil, horsegram, lab-lab bean, ricebean, winged bean, French bean, lima bean, sword bean.

Oilseeds: Groundnut, sesame, castor, rape seed, mustard, sunflower, safflower, niger, oil palm, coconut and linseed.

Unit 3 : Economically important plants –II

Origin, distribution, cultivation, production and utilization of economic plants of following groups such as

Fibres: cotton, silk cotton, jute, sunnhemp, agave, flax and mesta (kenoff)

Sugars: sugarcane, sugarbeet, sugarpalm and sweet sorghum

Fodders and green manure crops: Plantation crops: coconut, cocoa, tea; root and

tuber crops-: potato, sweet potato, tapioca, aroids etc.

Unit 4 : Economically important plants –III

Origin, distribution, classification, production and utilization of Fruits: mango, banana, citrus, guava, grapes and other indigenous fruits

apple, plum, pear, peach, cashewnut and walnut

Vegetables: tomato, brinjal, okra, cucumber, cole crops, gourds etc.

Fumigatories and masticatories: tobacco, betelvine, areacanut

medicinal and aromatic plants: sarpagandha, belladonna, cinchona, nux-vomica, vinca, mentha and glycirrhiza, plantago etc.

Narcotics: cannabis, datura, gloriosa, pyrethrum and opium

Dye-, tannin-, gum- and resin- yielding plants

Plant of agro-forestory importance: multipurpose trees /shrubs, subabool, Acacia nilotica, poplar, sesbania, neem etc.

non-traditional economic plants: jojoba, guayule, jatropha, carcus etc.

Unit 5 : Biodiversity and Plant Genetic Resources (PGR)

Biosphere and biodiversity; plant species richness and endemism

Concept and importance of plant genetic resources and its increasing erosion

Centres of origin and diversity of crop plants, domestication, evaluation, bioprospecting

National and International organizations associated with PGR

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), recent issues related to access and ownership of PGR, IPR,. PBRs, farmers rights, sui-generis system etc

Unit 6 : Germplasm Augmentation

History and importance of germplasm collection, eco geographical distribution of diversity, logistics of exploration and collection, use of flora and herbaria, random and selective sampling, genepool sampling in self and cross pollinated species

Concept, importance and ecogeographical considerations of introduction and exchange of plant germplasm

prerequisites conventions and achievements of PGR exchange.

Unit 7 : Germplasm Conservation

Principles and methods of conservation, in situ and ex situ methods, on – farm conservation

Gene banks: short-medium- and long-term conservation strategies

seed physiology and seed technology in conservation

seed storage behaviour (orthodox, recalcitrant), field genebanks, clonal respositories.

Gene bank management, gene bank standard for various crops, ISTA, AOSA, IPGRI guidelines, documentation of information in gene bank.

Unit 8 : Biotechnology in PGR

Plant conservation biotechnology, biotechnology in plant germplasm acquisition

plant tissue culture in disease elimination, in vitro conservation and exchange

cryopreservation, transgenics – exchange and biosafety issues

biochemical and molecular approaches to assessing plant diversity

Unit 9 : Plant Quarantine

Principles, objectives and relevance of plant quarantine

Regulations and plant quarantine set up in Indai

economic significance of seed borne pests, pathogens and weeds

detection and post entry quarantine operations, salvaging of infested/infected germplasm, domestic quarantine

ICAR NET Exam Pattern

There will be 150 questions from the respective discipline in which the candidate has opted to appear.

Type of Question	No of question	Time	Marks
Objective/Multiple Choice	150	2 hrs	1 mark each
Negative Marking	1/3 mark will be deducted for each wrong answer

Minimum marks required for qualifying NET Examination

Category	Minimum qualifying marks
Un-reserved(UR) (General) / OBC (Creamy layer)	55%
OBC(Non-Creamy layer)	50%
SC / ST/ Physically Challenged(PC) Person	45%

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