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General Agriculture for Competitive Exams for TGT, PGT, TA, STA, IBPS AFO, etc.

Important Textbooks and Reference Books in Agriculture

AGRONOMY

Book Title

Author(s)

Agronomy and Field Crop Management

T.S.R. Srinivasan and M.V.R.K. Bansal

Agronomy of Field Crops

B.S.M.M. Subramanian

Cropping System Research

R.S. Dixit

Crop Production and Management

Chhidda Singh

Modern Techniques of Raising Field Crops

Chhidda Singh, Prem Singh, and Rajbir Singh

Handbook of Agronomy

R.K.M.R. Krishnamurthy and K.V.R. Krishnamurthy

Resource Conserving Techniques in Crop Production

P.K. Ghosh

Rainfed Agriculture in India

J. Venkateswarlu

Irrigation Agronomy

S.R. Reddy

Irrigation of Field Crops

S.S. Prihar and B.S. Sandhu

Fundamentals of Agronomy

Yellamanda Reddy and Sankara Reddy

 

SOIL SCIENCE & FERTILITY

Book Title

Author(s)

Soil Fertility and Fertilizers

Rajendra Prasad and James F. Power

Soil Fertility and Fertilizers

Samuel L. Tisdale, Werner L. Nelson, James D. Beaton, and John L. Havlin

Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition

K.A.G.K. McDonald and S.H.D. Sharma

Soil Science and Management

T.S.R. Srinivasan and M.V.R.K. Bansal

Soil Pollution and Remediation

M.T.P. Reddy and S.S.R. Mehta

Soil Chemistry

H.D. Chapman

Fundamentals of Soil Science

Indian Society of Soil Science (ICAR)

Principles of Soil Science

W.L. Lindsay

 

WEED SCIENCE

Book Title

Author(s)

Weed Science – Basics and Applications

T.K. Das

Weed Management

U.S. Walia

Modern Weed Management

O.P. Gupta

Principles of Weed Science

V.S. Rao

Principles of Weed Science

O.P. Gupta

Scientific Weed Management in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics

O.P. Gupta

Applied Weed Science

R.K.V.K.R.D. Mehta

Weed Science Principles

R. Jayakumar and R. Jagannathan

Weed Control in Agriculture

S.S.N. Srivastava and P.B. Prakash

Advanced Weed Science

R.S. Balyan and R.K. Malik

 

HORTICULTURE

Book Title

Author(s)

Fundamentals of Horticulture

B.K. Sharma and V.M.C. Chhajer

Fundamentals of Fruit Production

S.P. Singh and R.S. Singh

Vegetable Science

Prem Nath

Basic Horticulture

Jitendra Singh

Post-Harvest Technology of Horticultural Crops

K.P. Sudhakar and D.K. Salunkhe

 

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Book Title

Author(s)

Introduction to Agricultural Economics

P.R. Tewari and R.S.R. Yadav

Economics of Agricultural Development

B.R.A. Kumar

Agricultural Economics

Ruddar Datt and K.P.M. Sundaram

Agricultural Marketing in India

S.S. Acharya and N.L. Agarwal

Agricultural Finance and Management

Subba Reddy and P. Raghu Ram

Farm Management

S.S. Johl and T.R. Kapur

Fundamentals of Agricultural Economics

A.K. Singh and K.K. Mishra

 

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Book Title

Author(s)

Principles of Agricultural Engineering (Vol. I & II)

R.S.S. Gupta

Farm Machinery and Power

A.M. Michael and T.P. Ojha

Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

R.S. Varshney

Watershed Management

J.V.S. Murthy

 

AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY

Book Title

Author(s)

Introduction to Agricultural Meteorology

R.G.G. Mehta

Agricultural Meteorology

G.S.L.H.V. Rao

Principles of Agricultural Meteorology

C.S. Pandey and S.K. Dubey

Agrometeorology

V.P. Subrahmanyam

 

PLANT BREEDING AND GENETICS

Book Title

Author(s)

Crop Breeding and Genetics

J.H.W.L. Jack and W.C.D. Knight

Principles of Plant Breeding

R.W. Allard

Plant Breeding: Theory and Practice

B.D. Singh

Breeding Field Crops

J.M. Poehlman and D.A. Sleper

Essentials of Plant Breeding

Phundan Singh

Plant Genetic Resources: Conservation and Management

H.K. Jain and B.R. Khanna

 

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY & MICROBIOLOGY

Book Title

Author(s)

Introduction to Plant Biotechnology

H.S. Chawla

Plant Biotechnology

B.D. Singh

Plant Tissue Culture: Theory and Practice

S.S. Bhojwani and M.K. Razdan

Principles of Genetics

Gardner, Simmons, and Snustad

Microbial Biotechnology

K.R. Aneja

Bio-fertilizers in Agriculture

S.P. Tewari and P.G.K. Patel

 

ORGANIC FARMING & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Book Title

Author(s)

Vermiculture and Organic Farming

R. Rangaswamy

Agriculture and the Environment

T.S.R. Sharma

Environmental Science

P.D. Sharma

Organic Farming: Theory and Practice

S.R. Thimmaiah

Sustainable Agriculture

J.S. Singh and S.P. Singh

 

ENTOMOLOGY & PLANT PROTECTION

Book Title

Author(s)

Pests of Crops and Their Control

R.A. Singh

Introduction to Entomology

Vasantharaj David and Ananthakrishnan

Integrated Pest Management

H.C. Sharma

A Textbook of Agricultural Entomology

K.P. Srivastava

 

STATISTICS & RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Book Title

Author(s)

Statistical Procedures for Agricultural Research

K.A. Gomez and A.A. Gomez

Handbook of Agricultural Statistics

R.N.R. Rao

Design and Analysis of Experiments

Montgomery D.C.

 

GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS

Book Title

Author(s)

Handbook of Agriculture

ICAR

Advances in Food Processing and Preservation

M.R.K.R.R. Mehta

Soil Fertility and Fertilizers

Rajendra Prasad and James F. Power

Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science

R.A. Singh

Fundamentals of Extension Education

B.L. Sharma

Agricultural Extension and Communication

A.K. Singh

 

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