CUET Agriculture Syllabus 2022, Download Topics PDF

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Unit I: Agrometeorology, Genetics, and Plant Breeding, Biochemistry and Microbiology

Agrometeorology: Elements of Weather-rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind velocity, Sunshine weather forecasting, climate change about crop production.

Genetics & Plant Breeding:

• Cell and its structure, cell division-mitosis, and meiosis, and their significance
• Organization of the genetic materials in chromosomes, DNA, and RNA
• Mendel’s laws of inheritance. Reasons for the success of Mendel in his experiments, Absence of linkage in Mendel’s experiments.
• Quantitative inheritance, continuous and discontinuous variation in plants.
• Monogenic and polygenic inheritance.
• Role of Genetics in Plant breeding, self and cross-pollinated crops, breeding methods in field crops-introduction, selection, hybridization, mutation and polyploidy, tissue and cell culture.
• Plant Biotechnology definition and scope in crop production.

Biochemistry: pH and buffers, Classification and nomenclature of carbohydrates; proteins; lipids; vitamins and enzymes.

Microbiology: Microbial cell structure, Micro-organisms- Algae, Bacteria, Fungi, Actinomycetes, Protozoa, and Viruses. Role of micro-organisms in respiration, fermentation, and organic matter decomposition

Unit II: Livestock Production

Scope and importance:

• Importance of livestock in agriculture and industry, White revolution in India.
• Important breeds Indian and exotic, distribution of cows, buffaloes, and poultry in India.

Care and management:

• Systems of cattle and poultry housing.
• Principles of feeding, feeding practices.
• Balanced ration-definition and ingredients.
• Management of calves, bullocks, pregnant and milch animals as well as chicks cockerels and layers, and poultry.
• Signs of sick animals, symptoms of common diseases in cattle and poultry, Rinderpest, black quarter, foot and mouth, mastitis and hemorrhagic septicemia coccidiosis, Fowlpox and Ranikhet disease, their prevention, and control.

Artificial Insemination: Reproductive organs, collection, dilution and preservation of semen and artificial insemination, the role of artificial insemination in cattle improvement. Livestock Products: Processing and marketing of milk and milk products.

Unit III: Crop Production

Introduction:

• Targets and achievements in food grain production in India since independence and its future projections, sustainable crop production, commercialization of agriculture, and its scope in India.
• Classification of field crops based on their utility-cereals, pulses, oils seeds, fiber, sugar, and forage crops. 
• Soil, Soil fertility, Fertilizers, and Manures: Soil, Soil pH, Soil texture, Soil Structure, Soil organisms, Soil tilth, Soil fertility, and Soil health.
• Essential plant nutrients, their functions, and deficiency symptoms.
• Soil types of India and their characteristics.
• Organic manure, common fertilizers including straight, complex, fertilizer mixtures and biofertilizers; integrated nutrient management system.

Weed Control: Principles of weed control, methods of weed control (cultural, mechanical, chemical, biological, and Integrated weed management).

Crops: Seedbed preparation, seed treatment, time and method of sowing/planting, seed rate; dose, method and time of fertilizer application, irrigation, intercultural and Weed control; common pests and diseases, caused by bacteria, fungi virus, and nematode and their control, integrated pest management, harvesting, threshing, post-harvest technology: storage, processing, and marketing of major field crops-Rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, groundnut, mustard, pigeon-pea, gram, sugarcane, cotton, and berseem.

Unit IV: Horticulture

Importance of fruits and vegetables in the human diet, Crop diversification & processing Industry.

Orchard- location and layout, ornamental gardening, and kitchen garden.

Planting system, training, pruning, intercropping, protection from frost and sunburn.

Trees, shrubs, climbers, annuals, perennials-definition, and examples. Propagation by seed, cutting, budding, layering, and grafting.

Cultivation practices, processing, and marketing of

• Fruits - mango, papaya, banana, guava, citrus, grapes.
• Vegetables - Radish, carrot, potato, onion, cauliflower, brinjal, tomato, spinach, and cabbage.
• Flowers - Gladiolus, canna, chrysanthemums, roses and marigold.

Principles and methods of fruit and vegetable preservation.

Preparation of jellies, jams, ketchup, chips, and their packing