CONTENTS
- The living world and plant kingdom
- Classification of crops
- Basic terminology and concepts
- Cereals and Millets
4.1 Rice
4.2 Wheat
4.3 Maize
4.4 Sorghum
4.5 Pearl millet
4.6 Barley
4.7 Minor millets
4.8 Important Q & A from cereals and millets
- Pulses
5.1 Chickpea
5.2 Lentil
5.3 Pea
5.4 Pigeon pea
5.5 Green gram
5.6 Black gram
5.7 Cowpea
5.8 Lathyrus
5.9 French bean
5.10 Kidney bean
5.11 Horse gram
5.12 Cluster bean
5.13 Important Q & A from pulses
- Oilseeds
6.1 Groundnut
6.2 Rapeseed and Mustard
6.3 Soybean
6.4 Sesamum
6.5 Castor
6.6 Linseed
6.7 Safflower
6.8 Sunflower
6.9 Niger
6.10 Important Q & A from Oilseeds
- Sugar crops
7.1 Sugarcane
7.2 Sugarbeet
7.3 Important Q & A from Sugar crops
- Tuber crop
8.1 Potato
8.2 Important Q & A from Potato
- Narcotic crop
9.1 Tobacco
9.2 Opium poppy
9.3 Important Q & A from Tobacco
- Fibre crops
10.1 Cotton
10.2 Jute
10.3 Sunn hemp
10.4 Mesta
10.5 Agave
10.6 Ramie
10.7 Important Q & A from Fiber crops
- Forage crops
11.1 Oats
11.2 Berseem
11.3 Lucern
11.4 Cluster bean
11.5 Napier grass
11.6 Para grass
11.7 Guinea grass
11.8 Important Q & A from Forage crops
- Medicinal plants
- Aromatic plants
- Basic calculations in crop production
- Important MCQs
- Chapterwise important MCQs for practice
- Memory-based MCQs frequently asked in JRF/SRF/NET/ARS
Answer Keys
Annexure 1: Origin, seed rate, spacing and RDF of crops
Annexure 2: Test weight critical stages of irrigation and WR of crops
Annexure 3: Terms associated with the crop, antinutritional factor, the first variety of crops, alternate name of different crops
Annexure 4: Food value of different crops
Annexure 5: MSP and MSP of crops
Annexure 6: Production data of field crops
Annexure 7: ICAR released new varieties
Annexure 8: Agricultural revolutions
Annexure 9: Important formulae
Acknowledgement
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