Best Book for ICAR -JRF Soil Science Preparation

 Best Books For Preparation of ICAR JRF Soil Science

1. Introductory Soil Science by D.K. Das

2. Fundamentals of Soil Science  by Indian Society of Soil Science

3. Textbook of Soil Science by T. Biswas, S Mukherjee

4. Textbook of Soil Science by R.K. Mehra

5. Concept of Soil Science book by S.G. Rajput

6. Agri Facts – Soil Science by Sai Prasad

7. Objective Soil Science by Ramesh

8. A Textbook of Pedology Concepts and Applications by J. Sehgal

9. Principles of Soil Chemistry, Kim H. Tan

10. Commercial fertilizers by Rajan kumar

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Daily Dosage - General Agriculture oneliner - 08

 General Agriculture -07

1.Khaira disease of rice is caused due to deficiency of - Zn

2.At global level India's position / rank in the wheat production is -  2nd

3.Grassy Shoot disease of sugarcane is caused by -  Mycoplasma

4.Silicon responding crop is - Rice

5.Most abundant soil group in India is -  Alluvial Soil

6.Sulphur content of gypsum is - 19%

7.Best carpet wool producing sheep breed is - Chokhla

8.Highest fat % containing milk breed of buffalo - Bhadawari

9.FMD not occurs in - Poultry

10.Milk Sugar - Dissacharide

11.Bengal famine caused by - Helminthosporium oryzae

12.Blind hoeing done in - Sugar cane

13.Seed rate of brinjal is - 4-5kg/ha

14. Seed rate of castor - 10-12 kg/ha

15.Powerhouse of cell is  - Mitochondria

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Daily Dosage - Agrl Economics Important Expansion - 01

 Agricultural Economics  Important Expansion

• TRIFED    - Tribal Co-operative Marketing Development Federation of India

• TRIMS      - Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures

• NAFED     - National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation

• AGMARK -  is a certification mark employed on agricultural products in India
  

• CWC          - Central Warehousing Corporation

• ISI               - Indian Standards Institution

• DMI            - Directorate of Marketing and Inspection

• NCDC         - National Cooperative Development Corporation

• AEZ           - Agri- Export Zone

• CACP        - Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices
  

• APEDA     - Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, NewDelhi

• NHB          - National Horticulture Board

• NDDB        - National Dairy Development Board

• NIAM        - National Institute for Agricultural Marketing, Jaipur

• WTO         - World Trade Organization

• GATT        - General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs

• CEC           - Codex Eliementarious Commission

• HACCP      - Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points

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Daily Dosage - Oil and Protein Content of Important crops - General Agriculture- 07

  Oil and Protein Content of Important crops 

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Daily Dosage - Different Agricultural Revolutions in India - General Agriculture - 06

Agricultural Revolutions in India:

The agricultural revolution in India refers to the significant change in the agriculture that occurs when there are discoveries, inventions, or new technologies implemented. These change the production ways and increase the production rate. There are various Agricultural Revolutions occurred in India.

List of Agricultural Revolutions in India: 

1.Green - Food Grain Production

2.Yellow - Oil seed Production

3.White - Milk Production

4.Pink -Shirmp Production / Onion Production

5.Blue - Fishery Production

6.Brown - Spices & Condiments Production

7. Red - Meat / Tomato Production

8.Golden - Fruit (Apple Revolution)

9.Silver - Egg Production

10.Gray - Fertilizer & Biomass Production

11.Round - Potato Production

12.Black - Petroleum & crude oils

13.Rainbow - Over all Development of Agri sector

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Photoperiodism - Plant Physiology

 Photoperiodism 

• Response of plant to day light period specially flowering behaviour is called photoperiodism

• The term photoperiodism was coined by Garner and Allard (1920).

 They classified plants into three categories: 

a. Short day plants: 

• Such plants require the day length less than 12 hours for flower initiation..

 • E.g. tobacco, soybean, rice, generally kharif crops and many tropical plants.

 b. Long day plants:

 • Such plants require more than 14 hours day light for flower initiation.

 • E.g. wheat, barley, sugar beet, castor, generally Rabi crops

 c. Day neutral plants:

 • Such plants are unaffected by the day length e.g. maize, tomato, buckwheat, sunflower, cotton, cucumber etc.

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Daily Dosage - Instruments and their usage - General Agriculture -05

 Instruments and their usage

Instrument              -  Uses 

Altimeter                           - Height 

Aneroid barometer            - Atmospheric pressure 

Anemometer                     - Wind speed 

Crescograph                     - Growth of plant

 Dynamometer                 - Convert mechanical energy to electrical 

Cambel stokes                  - Duration of sun shine 

ECG                                 - Movement of heart 

Wind wane                      - Wind direction 

Tensiometers                   - Soil moisture tension 

Galvanometer                 - Electric currents

 Porometer                     - Stomal behavior 

Hydrometer                   - Measures relative density of liquids 

Hygrometer/Psychrometer - Relative humidity

 Lactometer                   - Density of milk, milk purity 

Lysimeter                      - Evapotranspiration/leaching 

Manometer                   - Root pressure

 Planimeter                  -Area of an irregular figure 

Pyrheliometer             - Amount of direct solar radiation 

Pyranometer               - Total incoming solar radiation 

Pycnometer                 - Specific gravity of soil _ 

Peizometer                 - Depth of water table

Potometer                  - Transpiration

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Daily Dosage - Origin of Crops - General agriculture - 04

  Origin of  Crops

• Rice               - S. E. Asia(Burma) 

• Wheat           - S. W. Asia (Turkey)

• Gram            - S. W. Asia  

• Sugarcane    - New Guinea 

• Soybean        - China 

• Mustard       - China 

• Tea                - China 

• Maize           - S. America (Mexico)

• Potato          - S. America (Peru) 

• Tobacco       - C. America 

• Brinjal         - India 

• Moong         - India

• Cotton          - India 

• Groundnut - Brazil 

• Arhar         - Africa

• Cow pea     - Africa   

• Jowar         -Africa 

• Bajra          - Africa

• Oats             -Asia Minor

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Daily Dosage - Important Days Related to Agriculture - General Agriculture 03

 Important Days  Related to Agriculture 

• World Consumer Day -  15th March

• World Forestry Day - 21st March 

• Rajasthan Day - 3rd March

•  World Environment Day - 5th June

• World Population Day -  11th July

•  Ozone Day - 16th September

• Word Food Day - 16th October

• Women in Agriculture Day -  4th December  

• Kishan Day - 23 rd December - birth day of Choudhary Charan Singh

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Daily Dosage - Important years relates to agriculture - General agriculture - 02

United Nation International Years Related to Agriculture

• 2020: The United Nations (UN) is declaring 2020 the ‘International Year of Plant Health.’ Capping off the ‘Decade on Biodiversity,’ the UN continues to recognize and promote healthy ecosystems as key to sustainable development.

• 2019: International Year of Indigenous Languages

• 2018: Contrary to common practice, the United Nations has not declared 2018 as International Year for any specific topic.

• 2017: International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development

• 2016: International Year of Pulses

• 2015: International Year of Soils

• 2014: International Year of Family Farming

• 2013: International Year of Quinoa

• 2013: International Year of Water Cooperation

• 2012: International Year of Co-operative General Agriculture 

• 2012: Year of Horticultural (declared by Ministry of Ag. & Food Processing, Govt. of India).

• 2011: International Year of Forest, and : International Year of Chemistry 

• 2010: International Year of Biodiversity 

• 2009: International Year of Fiber 

• 2008: International Year of Potato 

• 2007: International Year of Water 

• 2006: International Year of Desert and Desertification

• 2005: International Year of Physics 

• 2004: International Year of Rice

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