Post Graduate (M.Sc. - Agriculture / Horticulture / Forestry)
Syllabus for Entrance Test for Admission 2016-2017

M.Sc. entrance test will be conducted module wise for Faculty of Agriculture from the session 2016-17. There will be four modules namely 1) Crop Production, 2) Crop Protection, 3) Social Science and 4) Basic Science.

The list of module wise Courses and related Departments under Faculty of Agriculture and Faculty of Horticulture is furnished below. Besides all other basic/fundamental courses which are part of the UG curricula of ICAR will be included in the syllabus for the entrance test.

Module	Name of Module	Name of the Course	Associated Department
1	Crop Production	Seed Production Technology Integrated Nutrient Management Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System for Natural Resources Management and Land Use Planning Agrometeorology and Crop Modelling Farm Mechanization Integrated Farming Systems Water Management Soil Management (Conservation, Problematic Soil and Soil quality) Organic Farming	* Agronomy, Soil * Science & Agricultural Chemistry
2	Crop Production	Integrated Pest Management (IPM) [Pest Scouting] Management of Post Harvest Insect-Pests Non-insect Pests and their Management Apiculture Bio-control Agents and Bio-pesticides (Mass Multiplication and Uses) Pesticides and their Appliances Mushroom Cultivation Epidemiology and Disease Assessment Bio-control Agents and their Mass Production Diagnosis and Management of Plant Diseases Techniques in Plant Pathology	* Agricultural Entomology, * Plant Pathology
3	Social Science	Project Development, Appraisal and Monitoring International Trade Government Policies and Programmes Related to Agriculture Farm Planning, Budgeting and Production Economics Agricultural Journalism Audio Visual Communication Multimedia Technologies and Cyber Extension Mathematics Simulation in Agriculture Designing Field Experiments Sample Survey Techniques in Agriculture Econometric Approach in Agriculture Regression Analysis Genetical Statistics Probability Distributions	* Agricultural Economics, * Agricultural Extension, * Agricultural Statistics
4	Basic Science	Molecular Breeding Plant Tissue Culture Recombinant DNA Technology Bioinformatics Microbial and Environmental Technology Molecular Diagnostics Principles of Biochemistry Plant Metabolic Pathways Fundamentals of Molecular Biology Analytical Techniques of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	* Genetics & Plant Breeding, * Biochemistry, * Seed Science & Technology
5	Horticulture	ICAR recommended syllabus of B.Sc. Horticulture	* Pomology and Post Harvest Technology, * Vegetables & Spice Crops, * Floriculture, Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, * Plantation Crops & Processing
6	Forestry	ICAR recommended syllabus of B.Sc. Forestry	* Forestry

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