Field Crops- II (Rabi) (Paper code 17010402)

Origin, geographical distribution, importance, production in Haryana and India, soil and climatic requirements, varieties, cultural practices viz. seed and sowing , intercultural operations, fertilizer, water and weed management, plant protection measures; harvesting and yield of wheat, barley;

Origin, geographical distribution, soil and climatic requirements, varieties, cultural practices viz. seed and sowing, intercultural operations, fertilizer, water and weed management, plant protection measures; harvesting and yield and constrains of chickpea, lentil peas and

Origin, geographical distribution, soil and climatic requirements, varieties, cultural practices viz. seed and sowing, intercultural operations, fertilizer, water and weed management, plant protection measures; harvesting and yield and constrains of oil seed and sugar crops- rapeseed, mustard, sunflower and sugarcane

Origin, geographical distribution, soil and climatic requirements, varieties, cultural practices viz. seed and sowing, intercultural operations, fertilizer, water and weed management, plant protection measures; harvesting and yield and constrains of forage and other commercial crops- potato, barseem, , , Lucerne, , lentil ,berseem , and peas

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Identification of seeds of rabi crops,

Seed bed preparation and sowing of wheat and mustard ;

Calculations on seed rate,

Identification of weeds in wheat and other rabi crops,

Application of herbicides and study of weed control experiments,

morphological characteristics of wheat, rapeseed and mustard

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1.       Chatterjee, B.N. 1989. Forage Crop Production- Principles and Practices. Oxford and IBH . New Delhi.

2.       Chidda Singh, Prem Singh and Rajbir Singh. 2003. Modern Techniques of Raising Field Crops (2nd ed.). Oxford and IBH, New Delhi.

3.       ICAR [Indian Council of Agricultural Research].2006. Hand Book of Agriculture. ICAR, New Delhi

4.       Pal, M., Deka, J., and Rai, R.K. 1996. Fundamentals of Cereal Crop Production. Tata McGraw Hill Pub., New Delhi

5.       Prasad, R. (ed.). 1999. A Text Book of Rice Agronomy, Jain Brothers, New Delhi,

6.       Prasad, R. (ed.). 2001. Field Crop Production. ICAR, New Delhi

7.       Thomas, C. G. 2003. Forage Crop Production in the Tropics. Kalyani Publishers, Ludhiana