Syllabus - ICAR PG JRF Exam - Social Sciences

Syllabus - ICAR PG JRF Exam - Social Sciences

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Code 06: MAJOR SUBJECT GROUP - SOCIAL SCIENCES

(Sub-Subjects: 6.1: AgriculturalEconomics, 6.2: Dairy Economics 6.3:Agriculture Extension/Extension Education/ Communication 6.4: Dairy Extension Education)

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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
• Organisational set up of agricultural research, education, and extension in India
• Elements of statistics
• Measures of central tendency and dispersion
• Regression and correlation
• Concept of probability, sampling techniques, and tests of significance

Unit II:

• Theory of consumer behaviour
• Theory of demand, elasticity of demand
• Indifference curve analysis
• Theory of firm, cost curves
• Theory of supply, price determination
• Market classification
• Concept of macroeconomics
• Money and banking
• National income
• Agricultural marketing—role, practice, institutions, problems, and reforms
• Role of capital and credit in agriculture
• Crop insurance, credit institutions, cooperatives
• Capital formation in agriculture
• Agrarian reforms, globalization
• WTO & its impact on Indian agriculture

Unit III:

• Basic principles of farm management
• Concept of farming system and economics of farming systems
• Agricultural production economics-scope and analysis
• Factor-product relationship
• Marginal cost and marginal revenue
• Farm planning and budgeting
• Agricultural finance: nature and scope
• Time value of money, Compounding and discounting
• Agricultural credit: meaning, definition, need, classification
• Credit analysis: 4R’s, 5C’s, and 7 P’s of credit, repayment plans
• History of financing agriculture in India
• Commercial banks, nationalization of commercial banks
• Lead bank scheme, regional rural banks, scale of finance
• Higher financing agencies, RBI, NABARD, AFC, Asian Development Bank, World Bank
• Role of capital and credit in agriculture; credit institutions, co-operatives, and agrarian reforms in India

Unit IV:

• Extension Education- concept, meaning, principles, philosophy, scope, and importance
• Extension programme planning and evaluation- steps and principles
• Models of organizing agricultural extension
• Historical development of extension in USA, Japan, and India
• Rural development, meaning, importance, and problems
• Rural development programmes in India- Pre-independence era to recent ones
• Extension teaching methods
• Definition and concept of sociology, differences between rural & urban communities
• Social stratification, social groups, social organization, and social change
• Rural leadership, educational psychology- learning and teaching
• Role of personality in agricultural extension
• Indian rural system- its characteristics; value system, cost and class; structure and customs
• Rural group organization and adult education

Unit V:

• Communication, principles, concepts, process, elements, and barriers in teaching methods
• Different kinds of communication methods and media and AV aids/materials
• Media mix, Campaign, Cyber extension- internet, cybercafé, Kisan Call Centers, teleconferencing
• Agriculture journalism, diffusion and adoption of innovations- adopter categories
• Capacity building of extension personnel and farmers- training to farmers, women, and rural youth

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