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General
Hindi & Essay
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- Interpretation
of unread passage, questions related to it, interpretation of underlined
passages and its appropriate title.
- Multiple
words, antonyms, synonyms, tatsam and tadbhav, regional, foreign (word
store), spelling, semantic sense, word form. Sandhi, compound, verbs, Hindi alphabet,
punctuation, word formation, syntax, meaning, idioms and proverbs, main of
Uttar Pradesh Dialects and impurities used in the use of Hindi language.
- Translation
of sentences from Hindi to English and English to Hindi.
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- Essay
to be written on one of the following topics:-
- Literature,
culture
- National
development plans / implementation
- National
- International, current social problems / diagnostics
- Science
and environment
- Natural
calamities and their prevention
- Agriculture,
industry and trade.
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District
Horticulture Officer-Class-2 (Grade-1)
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- Agro
climatic zones of U.P. and India, meaning and scope of agricultural
meteorology, atmospheric weather variables, Global warming, causes of
climatic change and its impact on agriculture. Weather hazardsdrought,
floods, frost heat wave and cold wave etc.
- Integrated
farming system-scope, importance, concepts of organic farming. Weeds and
their control. Concept of integrated nutrient management, balance of
nutrition, precision agriculture. Irrigation and water management.
- Importance
of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition. Establishment of nursery of
fruits and vegetables. Propagation, methods, Plantation and lay out of
orchards. Principles and methods of training and pruning. Cultivation of
fruits, vegetables, ornamentals and medicinal crops eg. mango, guava, anwala,
papaya, banana, citrus, tomato, brinzal, okara, carrot, chili, bottle guard,
marigold, gladiolus, ashwagandha and safed musali.
- Establishment
of kitchen and nutritional garden. Organic farming of fruits and vegetables.
Preparation and methods of horticultural products e.g.–Jam, Jelly, Squash,
Pickles, tomato sauce and cordial
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Principal-Government
Food Science Training Centre/Food Preservation Officer-Class-2
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- Principles
and methods of preservation of fruits and vegetables.
- Post
harvest management of horticultural crops.
- Preparation
of jam, jelly, marmalades, candy, pickles, ketchup, sauce, squashes and
cordials.
- Importance
of fruits handling, grading packaging and types of storage of fruits and
vegetables with merits and demerits.
- Concepts
of canning pasteurization, Zero-energy cool chamber, degreening, maturity,
indices, pre-cooling, controlled atmospheric storage.
- Spoilage
of food-classification of food in relation to spoilage agents.
- Industrial
and export potential, Agricultural export zones and industrial support.
- Vitamins
present in important fruits and vegetables.
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Senior
Technical Assistant Group-A (Agronomy Branch)
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- Meaning
and scope of agricultural meterology, Atmospheric weather variables, Global
warming. Causes of climate change, and its impact on agriculture, weather
hazards-drought, floods, frost, heat wave and cold wave etc. Agro climatic
Zones of U.P. & India.
- Scientific
principles of crop production, crop response production functions, concept of
soil plants relations, concept of growth, modern concept of tillage, concept
of Integrated nutrient management, Balance nutrition, precision agriculture.
- Sustainable
agriculture–problems and its impact on agriculture, conservation agriculture,
strategies in agriculture, resource use efficiency and optimization of
technologies.
- Farming
system-scope, importance, concept, cropping system and cropping pattern,
multiple cropping, inter cropping. Integrated farming system, organic
farming.
- Weeds,
their characteristics, weed biology, dissemination, association with field
crops, multiplication, weed control and management.
- Dry
land agriculture, Rain fed Agriculture.
- Irrigation
and water management criteria for scheduling irrigation, drainage, runoff,
Losses of water during irrigation, water use efficiency.
- Package
of practices for production of cereals, millets, pulses, oil seeds, fiber,
forage, sugar & cash crops. Grown in kharif, Rabi & Zaid season in
U.P. & India.
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Senior
Technical Assistant Group-A (Botany Branch)
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- Historical
perspective of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Mendel's laws of inheritance,
Multiple alleles, Gene interactions. Sex determination, sex-linkage,
Sex-influenced and sex-limited traits; Linkage-detection, estimation;
Recombination and genetic mapping in eukaryotes. Organization of chromosome in
prokaryotes and eukaryotes, artificial chromosome construction and its uses;
Special types of chromosomes. Chromosomal theory of inheritance–Cell Cycle
and cell division–mitosis and meiosis. Crossing over-mechanisms and theories
of crossing over-cytological basis. Structural and Numerical variations of
chromosomes and their applications; Polyploidy and role of polyploidsin crop
breeding; Extra chromosomal inheritance. Alien addition and substitution
lines–creation and utilization; Interspecific hybridization and
allopolyploids; Synthesis of new crops.
- Nature,
structure and replication of the genetic material; Organization of DNA in
chromosomes, Genetic code; Protein biosynthesis. Fine structure of gene,
Allelic complementation, Split genes, Overlapping genes, Pseudogenes,
Onco-genes. Regulation of gene activity in prokaryotes and eukaryotes;
Molecular mechanisms of mutation, repair and suppression.
- Objectives,
activity and important achievements of plant breeding. Mode of reproduction
and Patterns of Evolution in Crop Plants, Centers of Origin, its
significance. Genetic basis of breeding selfand cross-pollinated crops
including mating systems and response to selection-nature of variability,
components of variation; Heritability and genetic advance, genotype-environment
interaction; Random mating population-Frequencies of genes and
genotypes-Causes of change: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. General and specific
combining ability; Types of gene actions and implications in plant breeding;
Plant introduction and role of plant genetic resources in plant breeding.
Self-incompatibility and male sterility in crop plants and their commercial
exploitation. Pure line theory, pure line selection and mass selection,
pedigree, bulk, backcross, single seed descent and multiline method;
Population breeding in self-pollinated crops (diallel selective mating
approach). Breeding methods in cross pollinated crops; Population
breeding-mass selection and ear-torow methods; early testing, recurrent
selection schemes for intra and inter-population improvement and development
of synthetics and composites; Hybrid breeding-genetically and physiological
basis of heterocyst and inbreeding, production of in breds, breeding
approaches for improvement of in breds predicting hybrid performance; seed
production of hybrid and their parent varieties/ in breds. Breeding methods
in asexually propagated crops. Concept of plant ideotype and its role in crop
improvement. Special breeding techniques-Mutation breeding. Plant breeders'
rights and regulations for plant variety protection and farmers rights.
- Biotechnology
and its relevance in agriculture, Tissue culture-History, callus, suspension
cultures, Regeneration; Somatic embryogenesis; Anther culture; somatic
hybridization techniques; Meristem, ovary and embryo culture;
cryopreservation. Techniques of DNA isolation, quantification and analysis;
Genotyping; Sequencing techniques; Vectors, vector preparation and cloning,
genomic and c DNA libraries, Biochemical: morphological, and DNA-based
markers (RFLP, RAPD, AFLP, SSR, SNPs, ESTs etc.), mapping populations.
Marker-assisted selection for qualitative and quantitative traits; QTLs
analysis in crop plants. Genomics and geo informatics for crop improvement.
Recombinant DNA technology, transgenic, method of transformation,
vector-mediated gene transfer and physical methods of gene transfer.
Biotechnology applications in male sterility/hybrid breeding, molecular
farming. Genetically Modified Organism and related issues (risk and
regulations).
- Biotic
and abiotic stress resistance, Host-pathogen interaction, gene- for-gene
hypothesis. Types and genetic mechanisms of resistance to biotic
stresses-Horizontal and vertical resistance in crop plants and Gene
Pyramiding.
- Variety
Development and Maintenance; Variety testing, release and notification
systems in India. Genetic purity concept and DUS testing. Factors responsible
for genetic deterioration of varieties-safeguards during seed production;
Principles of quality seed production. Generation system of seed
multiplication-nucleus, breeders, foundation, certified, Quality seed
production technology of wheat, paddy, pearl millet, sorghum, maize, pigeon
pea, chickpea, field pea, groundnut, soyabean, sunflower, rapeseed and
mustard. Seed certification procedures and Seed Act.
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Senior
Technical Assistant Group-A (Chemistry Branch)
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- Soil–Physical,
Chemical and Biological properties, processes and factor of soil formation,
Mineral and organic constituents for soil and their role in maintaining soil
productivity, Essential plant nutrientsmacro and micro and other beneficial
elements in soils. Sources and forms of nutrient availability, Principles of
soil fertility and integrated nutrient management, Losses of nitrogen,
fixation of phosphorus and potassium in soils. Chemistry of acid, salt
affected and submerged soils and their reclamation methods. Soil types and
their important characteristics.
- Soil
microbiology-ecology and types of organisms in different soils. Microbial
transformations of nutrients and biodegradation of soil organic matter and
pesticides and their use in crop production and soil improvement.
- Soil,
water and air pollution problems associated with agricultures. Nature and
sources of pollutants, Their effect on crops and soils:- soil as sink for
waste disposal-Pesticides-their classification, behavior in soils, effect on
soil micro organisms. Toxic elementsTheir sources, behavior in soils, effect
on nutrients and human health. Pollution of water resources due to
leaching of nutrients and pesticides. Green house gasses-carbon dioxide,
methane and nitrous oxide. Amelioration of contaminated soil and water
resources.
- Soil
conservation and soil survey-definitions, objectives, types, land use
capability classification. Soil erosion-definition, processes, types factors
affecting it soil, run off and nutrient losses in water erosion and their
methods of estimation and measurement. Soil and water conservation measure of
water erosion, agronomical, mechanical (engineering) and forestry. Wind
erosion control measures-ground surface and forestry (wind breaks and shelter
belts).
- Dry
land agriculture-measures for dry farming, dry land farming and rainfed
farming. Watershed management-concept, principles, objectives, steps and
components. Schemes related to watershed management and concept of bio
industrial watershed management. Applications of Remote sensing, GIS and
isotopes technology in survey and identification of for planning and
management of watershed. Conservation irrigation-definition control on water
conveyance losses, surface sprinkler and trickle irrigation in water saving.
Drainage-possible reutilization of excess water by surface and subsurface
methods and low Cost bio drainage technique. Soil conservation practices to
support afforestation of problem sitesravines and gilled lands, waterlogged
areas, salt affected soils, steep chill slops, land slides and slips, stream
bank control, sand dune fixing and other wastelands. Agro forestry-definition,
objectives, need scope and system. Forestry options in mitigating climate
change and improvement:–agricultural development, ecological balance and
national economy. Gully control structures-tem porary and permanent. Design
and construction of checkdam, ponds and reservoirs
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Senior
Technical Assistant Group-A (Development Branch)
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- Importance
of Agro meteorology, Global warming Causes of climate change and its impact
on agriculture weather hazards-drought, flood & frost, Agro climatic
zones in U.P.
- Integrated
forming system-scope, importance, concept cropping system and cropping
pattern, multiple cropping and intercropping, organic farming.
- Sustainable
agriculture problems & its impact on agriculture concept of integrated
nutrient management (INM), Integrated pest management (IPM), Integrated weed
management (IWM), watershed management-concept, objective & steps of
implementation.
- Role
of Animal husbandry & dairy development in rural economy, mushroom
cultivation, Bee-keeping, Different Agricultural revolutions in India, Types
of seeds, Role of forestry in mitigation of climate change, Agricultural
Extension efrorts in pre independence and post independence era. Role of KVK
information technology and communication in agriculture.
- Package
and Practices (i) Cereals-Rice, wheat, Maize, Jawar, Bajara. (ii)
Pulses-Arhar, Gram, Lantil, Field pea. (iii) Oil seeds-Mustard, linssed, Til.
(iv) Cash crops-Sugarcane, Potato. (v) Vegetables-Tomato, Brinzal, chilli,
okra. (vi) Fruits-Mango, Guava, Amla. (vii) Flowers-Gladiolus, Marigold,
Rose.
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Senior
Technical Assistant Group-A (Plant Protection)
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- History
and importance of Plant Protection in India.
- Set
up of Plant Protection organization in U.P.
- Principal
of Pest control viz., Physical, Mechanical, Cultural and biological and
integrated control.
- Plant
Protection equipment their care and maintenance.
- Storage
pest of cereals and pulses.
- Pest
management in major crops cereals (Paddy and Wheat) Millets (Maize, Sorghum
and Bajara), oil seed (Mustard, Sesame and Sunflower), Pulses (Pigeon Pea,
pea, chickpea and lentil) and sugarcane.
- General
principal of plant protection and its importance in agriculture.
- Principal
plant infection, and methods of Isolation.
- Principal
of plant disease control, Qurantine, Cultural Method, Biological Method,
Chemical control and disease Resistance. Seed Treatment, Spraying and
dusting. Mode of action of different groups of fungicides and antibiotics.
- Symptoms,
etiology, transmission and control of important disease of cereals, legumes,
oilseed, fruits and vegetables crops in referances to U.P.
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