ASRB NET Exam
Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board is going to
schedule Agricultural Research Service Preliminary Examination & National
Eligibility Test (NET) for upcoming session for announcing the latest
notification of the information of this competitive exam. Qualified and keen
desired participants need to submit online application form on or before
closing date. Keen desired and dynamic job seekers who are interested for
teaching profession must be ready for recruitment process as written exam /
interview. Candidates must have related master degree to apply for available
posts to present in reputed exam that will be commenced in April.
To beat Pre exam complete details of exam pattern and
syllabus is declared on the same article because without preparation good
result is not possible. Friends you need to know that main examination will be
conducted in June whose eligibility is pre exam qualify. Dear
aspirants you need to visit the official website of Agricultural Scientists
Recruitment Board. Candidates must prepare for selection process for this
competitive exam. Appliers may submit online applications from February to March.
Now read the content of this page till last word for of ASRB
NET Exam. Capable and hard working candidates should apply online as
soon as possible for these openings.
ASRB NET Notification Info
For more
instances of ASRB NET Exam, please
see below written complete page info. Check the following section of web page.
Eligibility
Conditions: Check all the lines given in
following part of page.
Educational
Qualification: Applicants must have A
candidate must hold a Master’s Degree or equivalent in concerned discipline
with specialization. The candidates having Master’s degree from a foreign
University must attach a certificate of equivalence and recognition of that
degree issued by the University Grants Commission/ Government of India / any other
concerned Government of India / Department or Agency.
Age
Limitation: Candidates
who want to appear in ASRB ARS exam, their minimum age should be 21 years
and maximum age limit is 32 years.
- Relaxation in upper age will also be provided only to reserved category candidates.
- 05 years of age relaxation is for SC or ST category candidates.
- 03 years of age relaxation is for other backward classes/ Non-creamy layer candidates.
- 10 years of age relaxation is for Divyang candidates.
- 03 years of age relaxation is for SC/ST/OBC/ Divyang candidates who have Ph.D. degree.
- 05 years of age relaxation is for those candidates who have Jammu & Kashmir state domicile.
- For other classes relaxation in upper age will be applicable as per the instructions of Government of India.
Application Fee:
Candidates must deposit application fee by Debit Card/Credit Card/Net
Banking from any Bank from 1000 hrs. Applicants’ are required to submit an
examination fees given here:
Category
|
ARS Only
|
For
NET (I)
|
General (Unreserved)
|
Rs. 500/-
|
Rs. 1000/-
|
Other Backward Class (OBC)
|
Rs. 500/-
|
Rs. 500/-
|
Women/ Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled
Tribe (ST)/ Divyang
|
NIL (Exempted)
|
Rs. 250/-
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Selection
Procedure: Aspirants will be appointed on the
basis of-
FOR ARS: For Agricultural Research Service (ARS),
candidate’s selection decision will be made on the basis of Prelims, Mains and
Viva Voce performance. As you know ARS (Preliminary) Exam is only a qualifying
exam, candidates who will qualify ARS examination will appear in ARS Mains
Examination. Candidates who will crack Mains Exam and Viva Voce, they will
appoint in Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as Scientists in
Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
For NET: On the basis of NET exam performance,
candidates will be able to apply for the post of Lecturers or Assistant
Professors in the SAUs/Aus.
ASRB NET Exam Pattern:
Candidates
ARS (Preliminary) and NET (1) exam will be conducted only in online mode.
ARS Mains
Examination will be conducted in offline mode means paper and pen mode.
Medium of
exam will be in two languages “Hindi and English”.
Exam Pattern for
ARS (Preliminary):
Number of Paper
|
Single Paper
|
Duration of the Exam
|
2 hours
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Total marks
|
150 Marks
|
Type of Questions
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Objective type multiple choice questions (MCQs)
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Negative Marking
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-1/3 marks for each wrong response
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Minimum Marks to
qualify in ARS (Preliminary) Exam:
Category
|
Minimum
Qualifying Marks
|
Un-reserved (UR)
|
67.5 (45%)
|
OBC
|
60.0 (40%)
|
SC / ST/ Divyang
|
52.5 (35%)
|
ARS Mains exam
Pattern:
Number of Paper
|
Single paper
|
Duration of the exam
|
3 hours
|
Total marks
|
240 Marks
|
Sections
|
Three i.e. Part A (40 Questions ),
Part B- (20 Questions),
Part C (6 essay type questions)
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NET Exam Pattern:
Number of Paper
|
1
|
Total number of Questions
|
150
|
Type of Questions
|
Objective Type Questions
|
Duration
|
2 hours
|
Total Marks Allotted
|
150 Marks
|
Marking scheme
|
+1 mark for each correct answer
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Negative marking
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-1/3 marks for each wrong response
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Syllabus
Details:
ICAR NET Syllabus for Agronomy: See this part of this post-
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
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
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.
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
Syllabus for Economic Botany & Plant Genetic Resources
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)
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.
Pluses:
Pigeon pea, chickpea, black gram, green gram, cowpea, soybean, pea, lentil,
horse gram, lab-lab bean, rice bean, winged bean, French bean, lima bean, sword
bean.
Oilseeds:
Groundnut, sesame, castor, rape seed, mustard, sunflower, safflower, niger, oil
palm, coconut and linseed.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
repositories.
Gene bank
management, gene bank standard for various crops, ISTA, AOSA, IPGRI guidelines,
documentation of information in gene bank
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
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
Plant
Quarantine: ASRB Syllabus
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
ASRB NET Exam Centres
Exam Centers for ARS (PRELIMINARY) and NET (I) Exam:
Name
of the centre
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Centre
Code
|
City
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Directorate of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants Research
|
01
|
Anand
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National Institute of Animal Nutrition & Physiology
|
02
|
Bengaluru
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ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region
|
03
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Barapani (Shillong)
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Indian Veterinary Research Institute
|
04
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Bareilly
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Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute
|
05
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Barrackpore
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Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering
|
06
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Bhopal
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Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture
|
07
|
Bhubaneswar
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Tamil Nadu Veterinary & Animal Sciences University
|
08
|
Chennai
|
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
|
09
|
Cochin
|
Indian Institute of Soil & Water Conservation
|
10
|
Dehradun
|
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
|
11
|
Delhi
|
National Academy of Agricultural Research Management
|
12
|
Hyderabad
|
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology
of Jammu
|
13
|
Jammu
|
Central Arid Zone Research Institute
|
14
|
Jodhpur
|
National Dairy Research Institute
|
15
|
Karnal
|
Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research
|
16
|
Lucknow
|
Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering & Technology
|
17
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Ludhiana
|
Central Institute of Fisheries Education
|
18
|
Mumbai
|
Central Institute for Cotton Research
|
19
|
Nagpur
|
ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region
|
20
|
Patna
|
Central Island Agricultural Research Institute
|
21
|
Port Blair
|
Central Potato Research Institute
|
22
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Shimla
|
Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture
|
23
|
Srinagar
|
Exam Centers for ASRB ARS Mains Examination
Centre
Code
|
Centre
of Examination
|
01
|
Bengaluru
|
02
|
Bhubaneswar
|
03
|
Coimbatore
|
04
|
Delhi
|
05
|
Guwahati
|
06
|
Hyderabad
|
07
|
Jammu
|
08
|
Kolkata
|
09
|
Mumbai
|
10
|
Nagpur
|
11
|
Patna
|
12
|
Varanasi
|
Important Dates
- ASRB NET Application Form Online Registration Starting Date: Feb
- ASRB NET Application Forms Online Registration Last Date: March
- Date of ARS (Prelims) and ASRB NET Exam: April
- ASRB ARS Exam Date: June
How
to apply: Hey
friends this is the process by which you may apply perfectly:
- First of all applicants need to visit the official website of Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board that is asrb.org.in.
- On the home page Select “NET” link given on left side of the home page.
- Press on “NET & ASRB Registration” for filling application form.
- You should have valid e-mail id and Mobile number.
- Fill this online application form very carefully with all necessary details.
- Now upload latest passport size colour photograph (<=20KB) as well as his/her signature ((<=10KB) scanned in jpg or jpeg format.
- Submit the filled form and take hard copy of form for further use.
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