Importance of Agriculture/Forestry/Livestock in National Economy:

• Principles of crop ecology and crop adaptation
• climate shift and its ecological implications
• Argo-ecological regions in India.
• Geographical distribution of crop plants
• Greenhouse effect
• Climatic factors and their effect on plant processes and crop productivity
• Role of GIS and GPS in agriculture. Major pests and diseases of rice, wheat, cotton, chickpea, sugarcane and their management.
• Important rural development programmed in India
• organizational set up of agricultural research
• education and extension in India
• Elements of statistics.

Agricultural Soil fertility and fertilizer use:

• Essential plant nutrients and their deficiency symptoms
• concept of essentiality of plant nutrients
• Indicators of soil fertility and productivity.

Sustainable land use systems:

• Sustainable agriculture: parameters and indicators
• Conservation agriculture
• safe disposal of Agri-industrial waste for crop production
• Argo-forestry.

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;

Forest:

• Importance
• types
• classification
• ecosystem
• biotic and abiotic components
• ecological succession and climax
• nursery and planting technique
• social forestry
• farm forestry
• urban forestry
• community forestry
• forest management
• silvicultural practices
• forest mensuration
• natural regeneration
• man-made plantations
• shifting cultivation
• taungya
• dendrology
• hardwoods
• softwoods
• pulp woods
• fuel woods
• multipurpose tree species
• wasteland management. Agroforestry -importance and land use systems
• forest soils
• classification and conservation
• watershed management
• forest genetics and biotechnology and tree improvement
• tree seed technology
• rangelands
• wildlife - importance
• abuse
• depletion
• management
• major and minor forest products including medicinal and aromatic plants
• forest inventory
• aerial photo interpretation and remote sensing
• forest depletion and degradation- importance and impact on environment
• global warming
• role of forests and trees in climate mitigation
• tree diseases
• wood decay and discoloration
• tree pests
• integrated pest and disease management
• biological and chemical wood preservation
• forest conservation
• Indian forest policies
• Indian forest act
• forest engineering
• forest economics
• joint forest management and tribology.