NABARD Assistant Manager Agriculture Engineering Syllabus

NABARD Assistant Manager Agriculture Engineering Syllabus

Engineering in agriculture and rural lfie. Soil and water resources of India, present status of utilization and scope. Hydrological process; evapo-transpiration, infiltration and run off; soil erosion and soil lloss estimation; design and construction of mechanical soil conservation structures, farm-ponds and reserviors. Hydraulic of open channel, design of irrigation and drainage channels. Design work estimation and equipment for land development. Design and construction of dug and tube-wells; water-lifs and pumps design, construction, operation and maintenance; conveyance and distribution of water, measurement of water flow; water application methods. Drainage theory, drainage characteristics of different types of soils, design and installation of surface and sub-surface drains, drainage in respect to salt affected soils. Legal aspects relating to land water.

Agricultural mechanization; mertis and demerits of traditional equipment; sources of farm power; commercial and non-commercial, renewable and non-renewable sources of energy, scope and economics. Thermodhynamic principles, design features, construction details and requirements, principles of working, construction, operation, repair, maintenance and economics of seedbed preparation, planting, transplanting, sowing, fertilizer application, inter-culture, spraying and dusting, harvesting, threshing and transport machinery; package of implements for major crops like rice, wheat, sorghum, maize, gram, pigeon pea, groundnut, rapeseed/ mustard, potato, sugarcane, cotton etc. Farm machinery manufacture, testing, test codes and standards in India.

Agricultural produce management, marketing and profit sharing, post-harvest engineering and technology in India. Properities of agricultural produces and by products. Principles, contructional details, operation and management of cleaners, graders, dryers, burr mill, hammer mill, roller mills, can crushers, expellers, hullers, pearlers, modern rice mills, dalmill, solvent extraction. Thermal processing, canning preservation, pasteurisers, can washers. Farm structures, farm stead planning; layout of farm buildings, rural roads, farm fences, cost estimation. Psychrometry, heat and vapour flow in farm building; calculation of conditioning, storage engineering, functional, structural and thermal design of grain bins, silos, godown and cold storage. Storage engineering , structures and equipment for livestock and rural home waste handling and management, rural water supply and sanitation. Rural electrification, illumination, electrical safety.