MAJOR SUBJECT GROUP - HORTICULTURE
Sub-Subjects:
8.1: Horticulture,
8.2: Vegetable
Crops or Sci. / Olericulture,
8.3: Pomology/ Fruit Sci., Fruit Sci. and Horticulture
Technology
8.4: Post-Harvest Technology of Horticultural Crops
8.5:
Floriculture & Landscaping Architecture
8.6: Plantation Spices, Medicinal and
Aromatic Crops
UNIT-I:
Importance of Agriculture in
national economy; basic principles of crop production; cultivation of rice,
wheat, chickpea, pigeon-pea, sugarcane, groundnut, tomato and mango. Major
soils of India, role of NPK and their deficiency symptoms. Structure and
function of cell organelles; mitosis and meiosis; Mendelian genetics; elementary
knowledge of photosynthesis; respiration, and transpiration; structure and functions
of carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, enzymes and vitamins. Major pests
and diseases of rice, wheat, cotton, chickpea, sugarcane and their management.
Important rural development programmes in India; organizational set up of
agricultural research, education and extension in India; Elements of
statistics.
UNIT-II:
Layout and establishment of
orchards; pruning and training; propagation, climatic requirement and
cultivation of fruits like mango, banana, citrus, guava, grape, pineapple, papaya,
apple, pear, peach and plum; cultivation of plantation crops like coconut and
cashew nut and spices like black pepper, coriander, turmeric, important
physiological disorders; major vegetable crops of tropical, subtropical and
temperate regions ‘like cole crops (cauliflower, cabbage and knol khol),
cucurbits (pumpkin, bottlegourd, bittergourd, luffa, muskmelon and watermelon,
cucumber), root crops (radish, tapioca sweet potato and potato), leafy
vegetables (fenugreek and spinach); solanaceous crops (tomato, chillies and brinjal);
techniques for raising the nursery; nutritive value of fruits and vegetables
and their role in human nutrition; basic physiology of ripening in fruits and
vegetables and their products; type of fruits and vegetable products and control
of fungal and bacterial diseases; major floricultural crops grown in India for commercial
purposes like rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, marigold, tuberose, gladiolus, orchids;
establishment and maintenance of lawns, trees, shrubs, creepers, hedges and
annuals; type of gardens, methods of crop improvement; male sterility and
incompatibility; pure line and pedigree selection; backcross, mass selection;
heterosis; plant nutrients, deficiency symptoms of nutrients, manures and fertilisers,
systems of irrigation, management of important pests and diseases of fruits and
vegetables.
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