MAJOR SUBJECT GROUP - FORESTRY/AGROFORESTRY & SILVICULTURE
Sub-Subjects:
9.1: Forest Production &
Utilization
9.2: Silviculture & Agroforestry
9.3: Tree Physiology and Breeding
9.4: Agroforestry,
9.5: Forest NRM/Forest Mgmt. & Utilization
9.6: Plantation
Technology
9.7 Wild Life Sc. (Forestry)
9.8 Wood Science
UNIT-I:
Importance of Agriculture/Forestry/Livestock
in national economy. Basic principles of crop production. Important rural development
programmes in India Elementary principles of economics and agri-extension. Organizational
set up of Agricultural Research, education and extension in India. Major diseases
and pests of crops. Elements of statistics.
UNIT-II:
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 discolouration, 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.
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