Agricultural Budget 2020 -2021 

highlights of the 2021 Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

• The government aims to double farmers’ income by 2022
• Help 15 lakh farmers solarise their grid-connected pump sets
• “KisanRail” and “KrishiUdaan” for seamless transport of perishable farm goods
• Increasing coverage of artificial insemination to 70%
• Raise fishery exports to Rs 1 lakh crore by 2024-25

 Major pest & Disease of Rice, Wheat, Cotton, Chick pea, Sugarcane & their Management

• Rice stem borer (Scirpophaga incertutas) is -Monophagous

• Trichogramna is a n Egg parasitoid

• Silver shoot or onion leaf is caused by  Gall midge

• Vector of Rice tungro is - Green leaf hopper (Nephotettise spp.)

• Vector of Grassy stunt disease  - Brown plant hopper (Nilaparvata spp.)

• Chaffy grains with black spot is due to - Gundhi bug (leptocoris spp.)

• Family of Gundhi bug is   -      Alydidae

• Gundhi bug caused on the stage -  Milking stage

• Ufra disease of rice is due to    -       Ditylenehus angustus

• White grub is a - Bettle, Polyphages

• Serious pest of wheat -White grub & termite

• Ear cockle nematode is  -Anguina tritici

• Tundu/yellow ear rot disease is due to - Anguina tritici + Carynebacterium tritici

• Control of tundu disease is done by hot water treatment at Hot water treatment 50⁰C for 2 hours.      

• Wheat stem borer sesamia inferns attack in  -Night

• Name of rice yellow stem borer - Scirpophaga incertuls

• Highest consumption of pesticide in crop   -  Cotton (54%)

• Hooper burn in cotton is due to -        Amrasca biguttula

• Family of cotton white fly - Aleyrodidae

• Vector for cotton leaf curl virus is  - Bemisia tabaci

• Glaring of squares in cotton is due to - Spotted bollworm (Earias vitella)

• Rosetting of flowers due to - Pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella)

• Double seed formation is due to -         Pink bollworm

• Large circular bore holes with faecal pellets is the symptoms of  -American bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera)

• Dysdercus cingulatus is known as  - Red cotton bug

• Bt formulation is used for - Early instars of bollworms

• Helicoverpa and Agrotisypsilon is the serous pest of  - Chickpea

• Greasy cut worm attack in  - Night

• Scientific name of Sugarcane shoot borer is  - Chilo infuscatellus

• Bunchy top appearance in sugarcane is due to  - Top borer (Scirpophaga excerptaels)

• Family of Top borer  - Pryalidae

• Pyrilla perpusilla (Fam. Lophopidae) is a  - Leaf hopper

• Biological control of borers  -    Trichograma Japonicun

• Distractive insect pest (DIP) Act was passed in the year  - 1914

• Insecticide act passed -  1968

• Pest occurs most frequently on cultivated crops - Regular pest

• Pest occurs in a few isolated localities is known as -    Sporadic pest

• Pest occurs in same area of year after year  -     Endemic pest

• Pest occurs in area in severe form  -      Epidemic pest

• Central plant protection training institute  -        Hyderabad

• Safest insecticide for honeybee -           Endosulphohn

• Pest population should be kept below -  Economic threshold level

• Serious pest of Rice is  -       Yellow stem borer

• What is the sequence of coating of seed by insect fungicide & Rhizobium  -   Fungicide + Insecticide + Rhizobium

• Family of shoot borer  - Crambidae

 Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms in Plants

Nitrogen

• General yellowing of lower leaves
• Inverted V shaped Yellowing in cereals
• Buttoning of cauliflower
• Proteolysis in cells
• Red leaf of cotton (also due to Mg toxicity)

 milk one liner

1. Milk freshly drawn from udder of cow has Amphoteric in nature

2. Colostrum is first secretion obtain after Pasturisation 

3. The first drawn milk during milking is called as foremilk which is low in fat 

4. Administration of drug / harmone may affect temporary changing fat. 

5. Milk fat present in emulsion form. 

6. Standardized milk contain minimum 4.5% fat

7. Toned milk contain minimum 3% fat

8. Double toned milk contain minimum 1.5% fat

9. Casein forms 78-80% total protein. 

10. Milk protein also present in colloidal form

11. Milk sugar or lactose is true form of solution 

12. Carotene act a anti oxidant and of vit –d

13. Yellow colour of milk due to carotene 

14. Specific gravity of skim milk is 1.035-1.037

15. Addition of water or cream lower the specific gravity of milk.

16. Addition of skim milk increase the specific gravity of milk

17. Freezing point of cow milk is -0.547°C

18. Freezing point of buffalo IS -0.549°c 

19. viscosity of water is 1.005cp

20. viscosity of milk is 1.5 to1.7cp

21. Sweet taste of milk is due to lactose 

22. Salty taste of milk is due to minerals 

23. Sulfur dry compound significantly contribute to cook flavour of heated milk 

24. Refractive index of cow milk is 0.2065 to 0.2075%

25. Refractive index for buffalo milk is 0.2076 to 0.2086%

26. The common milk m.o grow best in between 20to 40*C

27. Plate cooler are generally used for continues cooling of milk in dairy industry

28. Filtration removed the surprised foreign particles by straining process

29. Riboflavin being a vitamin is greenish yellow pigment gives characterstic colour to whey 

30. Enzymes are biological catalysis 

31. Amylase is starch spitting enzyme 

32. . Lipase is fat spiting enzyme leading to rancid flavor 

33. Protease is protein spitting enzyme 

34. Titrable acidity of cow milk ranges from 0.13 to 0.14

35. Titrable acidity of buffalo milk ranges from 0.14 to 0.15

36. The pH of normal fresh milk varies from 6.7 to 6.8

37. Pasteurization of milk was first attributed to Dr.Soxhlet of Germany in 1986

38. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is index organism of pasteurization.

39. . Vacreation is pasteurization of milk at reduced pressure by direct steam.

40. U.H.T Pasturization is the milk heated to 135-150˚C.

41. Pasteurization is process of heating every particle of milk at 63˚for 30 min or 72˚for 15 sec

42. Homogenization refers to the process of forcing the milk through a homogenizer with the  

objective of sub-dividing the fat globules.

IBPS SO Prelims Syllabus -2021

The online examination (Preliminary and Main) for the next Common Recruitment Process (CRP) for selection of personnel in Specialist Officers’ cadre posts tentatively scheduled in December 2021/ January 2022.

IBPS SO Recruitment 2021
Organisation	Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)
Post	Specialist Officer (SO)
Exam Level	National
Vacancy	To be notified soon
Participating Banks	11
Application Mode	Online
Exam Mode	Online
IBPS SO Recruitment Process	Prelims, Main Exams, Interview
Education Qualification	Graduates or relevant degree
Age Limit	20 years to 28 years
Application Fee	SC/ST/PWD- Rs.175 General and Others- Rs. 850
IBPS SO Salary	Rs. 38000- 39000/-
IBPS Official Website	ibps.in

 

IBPS SO 2021: Important Dates
Activity	IBPS SO 2021 Dates
IBPS SO Notification 2021	November 2021
Online Registration Starts From	October 2021
Last Date to Apply Online for IBPS SO	November 2021
Call letters for Online examination – Preliminary	December 2021
Commencement of IBPS SO Preliminary Exam	18th & 26th December 2021
Result of IBPS SO Online exam – Preliminary	January 2022
Call letters for Online examination – Mains	January 2022
Commencement of IBPS SO Mains Exam	31st January 2022
Result of IBPS SO Online Mains Exam	February 2022
Conduct of Interview	February 2022/March 2022
IBPS SO 2021 Final Result	April 2022

IBPS SO 2021 Recruitment

The IBPS SO Recruitment process to select Specialist Officer through IBPS SO 2021 is done in three phases:

1.     Online Preliminary Exam

2.     Online Mains Exam

3.     Interview Process

A candidate must qualify both preliminary exam and mains exam to proceed to the interview. The candidates selected after the interview round are given the appointment letter.

Educational Qualifications for Agricultural Officer

Agricultural Field Officer (Scale-I)

4 years graduation degree in agriculture/ Horticulture/ Animal Husbandry/ Veterinary Science/ dairy Science/ Agricultural engineering/ Fishery Science/ Pisciculture/ Agri Marketing and cooperation/ Co-Operation and Banking/ Agro-Forestry

 

IBPS SO 2021 Exam Pattern

1. Preliminary Examination For the Post of Agriculture Field Officer

 

SL NO	Name of Tests	No of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
1	English Language	50	25	English	40 Minutes
2	Reasoning	50	50	English and Hindi	40 Minutes
3	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	English and Hindi	40 Minutes
	Total	150	125

 Candidates have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing minimum cut-off marks to be decided by IBPS. Adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by IBPS depending upon requirements will be shortlisted for Online Main Examination.

 2.Main Examination For the Post of  Agriculture Field Officer:

SL NO	Name of Tests	No of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
1	Professional Knowledge	60	60	English and Hindi	45 Minutes

Marks obtained in the online main examination only will be considered for shortlisting for interview and also for final merit listing. 

3. Interview:

• Candidates who have been shortlisted in the Online Main Examination for CRP SPL-X will subsequently be called for an Interview to be conducted by the Participating Organisations and coordinated by the Nodal Banks in each State/ UT. 

 Syllabus for Preliminary Examination:

1.Reasoning Ability:

·   Seating Arrangements

·   Puzzles

·   Inequalities

·   Syllogism

·   Input-Output

·   Data Sufficiency

·   Blood Relations

·   Order and Ranking

·   Alphanumeric Series

·   Distance and Direction

·   Verbal Reasoning

2.English Language :

·   Cloze Test

·   Reading Comprehension

·   Spotting Errors

·   Sentence Improvement

·   Sentence Correction

·   Para Jumbles

·   Fill in the Blanks

·   Para/Sentence Completion

3.Quantitative Aptitude :

·         Number Series

·         Data Interpretation

·         Simplification/ Approximation

·         Quadratic Equation

·         Data Sufficiency

·         Mensuration

·         Average

·         Profit and Loss

·         Ratio and Proportion

·         Work, Time and Energy

·         Time and Distance

·         Probability

·         Relations

·         Simple and Compound  Interest

·         Permutation and Combination

4.General Awareness :

·         Current Affairs

·         Banking Awareness

·         GK Updates

·         Currencies

·         Important Places

·         Books and Authors

·         Awards

·         Headquarters

·         Prime Minister Schemes

·         Important Days 

 Agricultural Field Officer - Professional knowledge Syllabus

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