ASRB NET Exam 2023 Application Form Online Notification, Exam Date


ASRB NET Exam

Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board is going to schedule Agricultural Research Service Preliminary Examination & National
Eligibility Test (NET) for upcoming session for announcing the latest notification of the information of this competitive exam. Qualified and keen desired participants need to submit online application form on or before closing date. Keen desired and dynamic job seekers who are interested for teaching profession must be ready for recruitment process as written exam / interview. Candidates must have related master degree to apply for available posts to present in reputed exam that will be commenced in April.

To beat Pre exam complete details of exam pattern and syllabus is declared on the same article because without preparation good result is not possible. Friends you need to know that main examination will be conducted in June whose eligibility is pre exam qualify. Dear aspirants you need to visit the official website of Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board. Candidates must prepare for selection process for this competitive exam. Appliers may submit online applications from February to March.

Now read the content of this page till last word for of ASRB NET Exam. Capable and hard working candidates should apply online as soon as possible for these openings.

ASRB NET Notification Info

For more instances of ASRB NET Exam, please see below written complete page info. Check the following section of web page.

Eligibility ConditionsCheck all the lines given in following part of page.

Educational Qualification: Applicants must have A candidate must hold a Master’s Degree or equivalent in concerned discipline with specialization. The candidates having Master’s degree from a foreign University must attach a certificate of equivalence and recognition of that degree issued by the University Grants Commission/ Government of India / any other concerned Government of India / Department or Agency.

Age Limitation: Candidates who want to appear in ASRB ARS exam, their minimum age should be 21 years and maximum age limit is 32 years.
  • Relaxation in upper age will also be provided only to reserved category candidates.
  • 05 years of age relaxation is for SC or ST category candidates.
  • 03 years of age relaxation is for other backward classes/ Non-creamy layer candidates.
  • 10 years of age relaxation is for Divyang candidates.
  • 03 years of age relaxation is for SC/ST/OBC/ Divyang candidates who have Ph.D. degree.
  • 05 years of age relaxation is for those candidates who have Jammu & Kashmir state domicile.
  • For other classes relaxation in upper age will be applicable as per the instructions of Government of India.

Application Fee: Candidates must deposit application fee by Debit Card/Credit Card/Net Banking from any Bank from 1000 hrs. Applicants’ are required to submit an examination fees given here:
Category
ARS Only
For NET (I)
General (Unreserved)
Rs. 500/-
Rs. 1000/-
Other Backward Class (OBC)
Rs. 500/-
Rs. 500/-
Women/ Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled
Tribe (ST)/ Divyang
NIL (Exempted)
Rs. 250/-

Selection ProcedureAspirants will be appointed on the basis of-

FOR ARS: For Agricultural Research Service (ARS), candidate’s selection decision will be made on the basis of Prelims, Mains and Viva Voce performance. As you know ARS (Preliminary) Exam is only a qualifying exam, candidates who will qualify ARS examination will appear in ARS Mains Examination. Candidates who will crack Mains Exam and Viva Voce, they will appoint in Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as Scientists in Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

For NET: On the basis of NET exam performance, candidates will be able to apply for the post of Lecturers or Assistant Professors in the SAUs/Aus.

ASRB NET Exam Pattern:
Candidates ARS (Preliminary) and NET (1) exam will be conducted only in online mode.
ARS Mains Examination will be conducted in offline mode means paper and pen mode.
Medium of exam will be in two languages “Hindi and English”.

Exam Pattern for ARS (Preliminary):
Number of Paper
Single Paper
Duration of the Exam
2 hours
Total marks
150 Marks
Type of Questions
Objective type multiple choice questions (MCQs)
Negative Marking
-1/3 marks for each wrong response

Minimum Marks to qualify in ARS (Preliminary) Exam:
Category
Minimum Qualifying Marks
Un-reserved (UR)
67.5 (45%)
OBC
60.0 (40%)
SC / ST/ Divyang
52.5 (35%)

ARS Mains exam Pattern:
Number of Paper
Single paper
Duration of the exam
3 hours
Total marks
240 Marks
Sections
Three i.e. Part A (40 Questions ),
Part B- (20 Questions),
Part C (6 essay type questions)

NET Exam Pattern:
Number of Paper
1
Total number of Questions
150
Type of Questions
Objective Type Questions
Duration
2 hours
Total Marks Allotted
150 Marks
Marking scheme
+1 mark for each correct answer
Negative marking
-1/3 marks for each wrong response

Syllabus Details:

ICAR NET Syllabus for Agronomy: See this part of this post-

Crop Ecology and Geography:
Principles of crop ecology
Ecosystem concept and determinants of productivity of ecosystem
Physiological limits of crop yield and variability in relation to ecological optima
Crop adaptation
Climate shift and its ecological implication
Greenhouse effect
Agro-ecological and agro climatic regions of lndia
Geographical distribution of cereals, legumes, oilseeds, vegetables, fodders and forages, commercial crops, condiments and spices, medicinal and aromatic plants
Adverse climatic factors and crop productivity
Photosynthesis, respiration, net assimilation, solar energy conversion efficiency and relative water content, light intensity, water and CO2 in relation to photosynthetic rates and efficiency
Physiological stress in crops
Remote sensing
Spectral indices and their application in agriculture
Crop water stressindices and crop stress detection


Weed Management:
Scope and principles of weed management
Weeds’ classification, biology, ecology and allelopathy
Crop weed competition, weed threshold
Herbicides classification, formulations, mode of action, selectivity and resistance
Persistence of herbicides in soils and plants
Application methods and equipment
Biological weed control, bioherbicides
Integrated weed management
Special weeds, parasitic and aquatic weeds and their management in cropped and non cropped lands
weed control schedules in field crops, vegetables and plantation crops
Role of GM crops in weed management

Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Use:
History of soil fertility and fertilizer use
Concept of essentiality of plant nutrients, their critical concentrations in plants, nutrient interactions, diagnostic techniques with special emphasis on emerging deficiencies of secondary and micro-nutrients
Soil fertility and productivity and their indicators
Fertilizer materials including liquid fertilizers, their composition, mineralization, availability and reaction products in soils
Water solubility of phosphate fertilizers
Slow release fertilizers, nitrification inhibitors and their use for crop production
Principles and methods of fertilizer application
Integrated nutrient management and bio-fertilizers
Agronomic and physiological efficiency and recovery of applied plant nutrients
Criteria for determining fertilizer schedules for cropping systems direct, residual and cumulative effects
Fertilizer related environmental problems including ground water pollution
Site-specific nutrient management
Contamination of heavy metals in peri-urban soils and their remediation.


Dryland Agronomy:
Concept of dryland farming; dryland farming vs rainfed farming
History, development, significance and constraints of dryland agriculture in India
Climatic classification and delineation of dryland tracts
Characterization of agro-climatic environments of drylands
Rainfall analysis and length of growing season
Types of drought, drought syndrome, effect on plant growth, drought resistance, drought
avoidance, drought management
Crop Planning including contingency, crop diversification, varieties, cropping systems, conservation cropping and mid-season corrections for aberrant weather conditions
Techniques of moisture conservation insitu to reduce evapotranspiration, runoff and to increase infiltration
Rain water harvesting and recycling concept, techniques and practices
Timelines and precision key factors for timely sowing, precision in seeding, weed control
Fertilizer placement, top dressing and foliar application, aqua-fertigation
Concept and importance of watershed management in dryland areas
ICAR NET Syllabus for Economic Botany & Plant Genetic Resources

Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics:
Nomenclature, purpose, principles and systems of classification
Taxonomy of higher plants, floras, manuals, monographs, index, catalogues and dictionaries, herbaria
Concepts of biosystematics, evolution and differentiation of species
Biosystematic and taxonomic tools
Origin, evolution and biosystematics of selected crops (rice, wheat, rape seed & mustard, cotton)

Economically important plants –I:
Origin, history, domestication, botany, genetic resource activities, cultivation, production and use of:
Cereals: Wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, pearl millet and minor millets.
Pluses: Pigeon pea, chickpea, black gram, green gram, cowpea, soybean, pea, lentil, horse gram, lab-lab bean, rice bean, winged bean, French bean, lima bean, sword bean.
Oilseeds: Groundnut, sesame, castor, rape seed, mustard, sunflower, safflower, niger, oil palm, coconut and linseed.

Economically important plants –II:
Origin, distribution, cultivation, production and utilization of economic plants of following groups such as
Fibres: cotton, silk cotton, jute, sunnhemp, agave, flax and mesta (kenoff)
Sugars: sugarcane, sugarbeet, sugarpalm and sweet sorghum
Fodders and green manure crops: Plantation crops: coconut, cocoa, tea; root and
Tuber crops-: potato, sweet potato, tapioca, aroids etc.


Economically important plants –III:
Origin, distribution, classification, production and utilization of Fruits: mango, banana, citrus, guava, grapes and other indigenous fruits
apple, plum, pear, peach, cashewnut and walnut
Vegetables: tomato, brinjal, okra, cucumber, cole crops, gourds etc.
Fumigatories and masticatories: tobacco, betelvine, areacanut
medicinal and aromatic plants: sarpagandha, belladonna, cinchona, nux-vomica, vinca, mentha and glycirrhiza, plantago etc.
Narcotics: cannabis, datura, gloriosa, pyrethrum and opium
Dye-, tannin-, gum- and resin- yielding plants
Plant of agro-forestory importance: multipurpose trees /shrubs, subabool, Acacia nilotica, poplar, sesbania, neem etc.
Non-traditional economic plants: jojoba, guayule, jatropha, carcus etc.

Biodiversity and Plant Genetic Resources (PGR):
Biosphere and biodiversity; plant species richness and endemism
Concept and importance of plant genetic resources and its increasing erosion
Centres of origin and diversity of crop plants, domestication, evaluation, bioprospecting
National and International organizations associated with PGR
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), recent issues related to access and ownership of PGR, IPR,. PBRs, farmers rights, sui-generis system etc.


Germplasm Augmentation:
History and importance of germplasm collection, eco geographical distribution of diversity, logistics of exploration and collection, use of flora and herbaria, random and selective sampling, genepool sampling in self and cross pollinated species
Concept, importance and ecogeographical considerations of introduction and exchange of plant germplasm
Prerequisites conventions and achievements of PGR exchange

Germplasm Conservation:
Principles and methods of conservation, in situ and ex situ methods, on – farm conservation
Gene banks: short-medium- and long-term conservation strategies
Seed physiology and seed technology in conservation
Seed storage behaviour (orthodox, recalcitrant), field genebanks, clonal repositories.
Gene bank management, gene bank standard for various crops, ISTA, AOSA, IPGRI guidelines, documentation of information in gene bank

Biotechnology in PGR:
Plant conservation biotechnology, biotechnology in plant germplasm acquisition
Plant tissue culture in disease elimination, in vitro conservation and exchange
Cryopreservation, transgenics – exchange and biosafety issues
Biochemical and molecular approaches to assessing plant diversity

Plant Quarantine:
Principles, objectives and relevance of plant quarantine
Regulations and plant quarantine set up in Indai
Economic significance of seed borne pests, pathogens and weeds
Detection and post entry quarantine operations, salvaging of infested/infected germplasm, domestic quarantine

Plant Quarantine: ASRB Syllabus
Principles, objectives and relevance of plant quarantine
Regulations and plant quarantine set up in Indai
Economic significance of seed borne pests, pathogens and weeds
Detection and post entry quarantine operations, salvaging of infested/infected germplasm, domestic quarantine


ASRB NET Exam Centres

Exam Centers for ARS (PRELIMINARY) and NET (I) Exam:
Name of the centre
Centre Code
City
Directorate of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants Research
01
Anand
National Institute of Animal Nutrition & Physiology
02
Bengaluru
ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region
03
Barapani (Shillong)
Indian Veterinary Research Institute
04
Bareilly
Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute
05
Barrackpore
Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering
06
Bhopal
Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture
07
Bhubaneswar
Tamil Nadu Veterinary & Animal Sciences University
08
Chennai
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
09
Cochin
Indian Institute of Soil & Water Conservation
10
Dehradun
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
11
Delhi
National Academy of Agricultural Research Management
12
Hyderabad
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu
13
Jammu
Central Arid Zone Research Institute
14
Jodhpur
National Dairy Research Institute
15
Karnal
Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research
16
Lucknow
Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering & Technology
17
Ludhiana
Central Institute of Fisheries Education
18
Mumbai
Central Institute for Cotton Research
19
Nagpur
ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region
20
Patna
Central Island Agricultural Research Institute
21
Port Blair
Central Potato Research Institute
22
Shimla
Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture
23
Srinagar


Exam Centers for ASRB ARS Mains Examination
Centre Code
Centre of Examination
01
Bengaluru
02
Bhubaneswar
03
Coimbatore
04
Delhi
05
Guwahati
06
Hyderabad
07
Jammu
08
Kolkata
09
Mumbai
10
Nagpur
11
Patna
12
Varanasi

Important Dates
  • ASRB NET Application Form Online Registration Starting Date: Feb
  • ASRB NET Application Forms Online Registration Last Date: March
  • Date of ARS (Prelims) and ASRB NET Exam: April
  • ASRB ARS Exam Date: June

How to apply: Hey friends this is the process by which you may apply perfectly:
  • First of all applicants need to visit the official website of Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board that is asrb.org.in.
  • On the home page Select “NET” link given on left side of the home page.
  • Press on “NET & ASRB Registration” for filling application form.
  • You should have valid e-mail id and Mobile number.
  • Fill this online application form very carefully with all necessary details.
  • Now upload latest passport size colour photograph (<=20KB) as well as his/her signature ((<=10KB) scanned in jpg or jpeg format.
  • Submit the filled form and take hard copy of form for further use.


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