ICAR AIEEA UG Syllabus 2025 PDF Download : for PCM, PCB, and PCA

Unit-1: Agrometeorology, Genetics, and Plant Breeding, Biochemistry and Microbiology

Unit-2: Livestock Production

1. Scope and importance : 
• (a) Importance of livestock in agriculture and industry, White revolution in India. 
• (b) Important breeds Indian and exotic, distribution of cows, buffaloes, and poultry in India.
2. Care and management : 
• (a) Systems of cattle and poultry housing 
• (b) Principles of feeding, and feeding practices. 
• (c) Balanced ration definition and ingredients. 
• (d) Management of calves, bullocks, pregnant and milch animals as well as chicks cockerels and layers, and poultry. 
• (e) Signs of sick animals, symptoms of common diseases in cattle and poultry, Rinderpest, black quarter, foot and mouth, mastitis and haemorrhagic septicaemia coccidiosis, Fowl pox and Ranikhet disease, their prevention, and control.
3. 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-3: Crop Production

1. Introduction :
• (a) Targets and achievements in foodgrain production in India since independence and its future projections, sustainable crop production, commercialization of agriculture, and its scope in India. 
• (b) Classification of field crops based on their utility-cereals, pulses, oils seeds, fibre, sugar, and forage crops.
2. Soil, Soil fertility, Fertilizers, and Manures: 
• (a) Soil, soil pH, Soil texture, soil structure, soil organisms, soil tilth, soil fertility, and soil health. 
• (b) Essential plant nutrients, their functions, and deficiency symptoms. 
• (c) Soil types of India and their characteristics. 
• (d) Organic manure, common fertilizers including straight, complex, fertilizer mixtures and biofertilizers; integrated nutrient management system.
3. Irrigation and Drainage: 
• (a) Sources of irrigation (rain, canals, tanks, rivers, wells, tubewells). 
• (b) Scheduling of irrigation based on critical stages of growth, time interval, soil moisture content, and weather parameters. 
• (c) Water requirement of crops. 
• (d) Methods of irrigation and drainage. 
• (e) Watershed management
4. Weed Control: 
• Principles of weed control, methods of weed control (cultural, mechanical, chemical, biological, and Integrated weed management).
5. 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 viruses 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-4: Horticulture

• (a) Importance of fruits and vegetables in the human diet, Crop diversification & Processing Industry. 
• (b) Orchard location and layout, ornamental gardening, and kitchen garden. 
• (c) Planting system, training, pruning, intercropping, protection from frost and sunburn. 
• (d) Trees, shrubs, climbers, annuals, perennials-definition, and examples. Propagation by seed, cutting, budding, layering, and grafting. 
• (e) Cultivation practices, processing, and marketing of 
• (i) Fruits - mango, papaya, banana, guava, citrus, grapes. 
• (ii) Vegetables - Radish, carrot, potato, onion, cauliflower, brinjal, tomato, spinach, and cabbage. 
• (iii) Flowers - Gladiolus, canna, chrysanthemums, roses and marigold. 
• (f) Principles and methods of fruit and vegetable preservation. 
• (g) Preparation of jellies, jams, ketchup, chips, and their packing.

Note: Besides the above syllabi, any other question of scientific and educational importance may be asked.

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