MAJOR SUBJECT GROUP - ENTOMOLOGY AND NEMATOLOGY
Sub-Subjects:
4.1: Agricultural/
Horticultural Entomology,
4.2: Nematology,
4.3: Apiculture,
4.4: Sericulture,
4.5: Plant Protection
UNIT-I:
Importance of Agriculture in
national economy; basic principles of crop production; cultivation of rice,
wheat, chickpea, pigeon-pea, sugarcane, groundnut, tomato, cole crops, mango,
grapes, banana, oilseeds other than groundnut, soybean and mustard. Major soils
of India, role of NPK and their deficiency symptoms. Mendelian genetics; elementary
knowledge of photosynthesis; respiration, and transpiration; Major cropping systems
(rice- wheat cropping, crop rotations, mixed cropping); soil degradation-soil
salinity and acidity and management; some aspects of post-harvest technology;
varietal improvement; importance of Heterosis in crop production; crop protection
principles in field and storage. Major insect pests and diseases of agricultural
crops like rice, cotton, pulses, oilseed crops like groundnut, soybean and
mustard, vegetables like tomato, cole crops; fruit crops like mango and banana and
their management principles. Transgenic crops. Important rural development programmes
in India; organizational set up of agricultural research, education and extension
in India; Elements of statistics.
UNIT-II:
Classification of animal kingdom
up to class; distinguishing characters up to orders in class Insecta; general organization
of an insect external morphology with special reference to lepidopteran larvae,
coleopteran adults; and honeybee; metamorphosis and moulting; different physiological
systems; insect- plant relationship; insect pests of agricultural and
horticultural crops, and their stored/processed products, insect vectors of
plant diseases- identification, biology, nature of damage, and their management
tactics; and pests of household, medical and veterinary importance and their
control; useful and beneficial insects like honeybee, lac insect, silkworm and
pollinators; Nematode taxonomy, biology of important plant parasitic nematodes and
their control; entomopathogenic nematodes, basic principles of insect and
nematode pest management-cultural, biological, insecticidal, quarantine, and
regulatory aspects; insecticide classification and insecticide resistance management;
and insect protective transgenic crops.
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