IBPS SO - Agricultural Field Officer Syllabus, Exam Pattern and Study Material For Prelims and Mains 2021

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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IBPS AFO - Agricultural Field Officer Professional Knowledge Detailed Syllabus

IBPS SO AGRICULTURAL OFFICER SCALE I - PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE SYLLABUS

1.Agriculture current affairs
2.Crop horticulture vegetables
3.Spacing time of sowing seed rate
4.Herbicides Pesticides
5.Important points regarding plants fruits vegetables
6.Preservation of fruits and vegetables
7.Types of cropping system
8.Different Diseases
9.Seed technology – Different government schemes
10.Agriculture economics – Agriculture cost and schemes
11.Various types of agricultural practices
12.Soil resources
13.Indian soil
14.Green manures
15.Animal husbandry and technology
16.Different varieties of animals
17.Agriculture small industries like honey daily in the fisheries
18.Various diseases and its causes
19.Rural welfare activities in India
20.Different insurance schemes regarding agriculture
21.Development schemes.

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Technical Terms in Plant Pathology

  Technical Terms in Plant Pathology

Epidemic Disease : If disease spread over large area and causing considerable loss to the crop plant. Eg: Guava Wilt, Apple Scab, Bacterial Blight of rice.

Endemic Disease: When disease is more or less constantly present from year to year in moderate to severe form in a particular part of a country or state is called endemic disease Eg; Early blight of Potato.

Pandemic: Epidemic is spread too many country many time at the continental level is called pandemic eg. Yellow rust of wheat.

Sporadic Disease: Occur at very irregular intervals and location. Eg: Greet ear disease of  Bajra.

Compound interest Pathogen: When pathogen complete several life cycle in a crop season is called compound interest disease. Eg. Late blight of potato, Rice Blast, Wheat Rust, Major epidemic is caused by compound interest disease.

Simple or Single Interest Pathogen: When a pathogen complete only one life cycle in a crop season is called single interest disease. Eg: Lose smut of wheat

Symptoms : Host + Pathogen + Environment 

Parasite: It is a living organism depending on host for its nutrition 

Pathogenicity : This is the ability of pathogen to interfere with one or more function of the host and finally lead for the disease development.

Saprophyte : They are those who derive their nutrition from dad organic matter by enzymatic degradation of substrate.

Facultative parasite : Parasite which lives generally on the dead organic matter but occasionally becomes parasite. Eg. Mucor

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Pest of Ground Nut - IBPS Agricultural Field Officer Study Material

Pest of Groundnut

1. State the damaging stage/s of groundnut leaf miner. – Larvae

 2. Webbing and drying of terminal leaflets of groundnut. – Leaf miner 

3. The bunchy variety of groundnut is susceptible to Leaf miner. 

4. Leaf miners are favored by the hot dry conditions of the post - rainy season. 

5. Bawachi weed is alternate host for leaf miner. 

6. The bud necrosis of groundnut is transmitted by Thrips . 

7. Early instars of Red hairy caterpillar are skeletoniser. 

8. The diapauses stage of red hairy caterpillar is pupal stage (pupation in soil). 

9. Scarification of groundnut pods is caused by termites.

 10. Identify the pest from damage -

 a) The whole groundnut field presents burnt appearance. - Leaf miner  

 b) Webbing and drying of terminal leaf lets in groundnut - Leaf miner

 c)   Wilting of groundnut plants in patches with damaged roots – White grub 

 d) Total defoliation in groundnut – Red hairy caterpillar  

11.Severely affected groundnut filed looking as if  grazed by cattle is the typical  symptom of  

----------------      Red hairy caterpillar

 Groundnut shows burnt appearance when  severely infested with --------------- Leaf miner 

 Intercrop cumbu in  groundnut at the ratio of 4:1

 Fecal pellets seen on groundnut leaves and on the ground is an indicator of ________ pest incidence. Tobacco caterpillar 

Growing  castor as a border (or) intercrop in groundnut fields is to attract ------------------    Tobacco caterpillar

Pod bug  sucks the sap from groundnut pod in field as well as storage -Say True or false 

Groundnut leaves with holes resulting in skeletonization and defoliation is due to 

a. Semilooper 

 ___________ Soybean is an alternate host of groundnut leaf miner  

Young groundnut pods showing bore holes with discoloured pulps is the symptom of ________ in groundnut.(Earwig pod borer)

 

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