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Agriculture & ForestryForestry Research ICFRE
Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education
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- Agriculture & Forestry
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परीक्षा सारांश
अवलोकन
आयोजक संस्था
Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education
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Scientist positions in forestry research
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2025
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सभी 10 विषय और 96 अध्याय शामिल हैं — कुल 1,759 टॉपिक में से 420 यहाँ दिखाए गए हैं।कुछ भी हटाया नहीं गया है। हर विषय में उसकी पूरी टॉपिक सूची का लिंक मौजूद है।
Botany
Cryptogams
- Algae
- Fungi
- Bryophytes
Phanerogams
- Gymnosperms
- Concept of Progymonosperms
- Classification and distribution of Gymnosperms
Angiosperm
- Plants morphology, Inflorescences, Botanical Nomenclature- Salient Features of the International Code of Nomenclature (ICN), Principles, Type method, author citation, Publication of names, rejection of names
- Basionym
- synonym
Plant Anatomy
- Basic structure and function of plant cells
- Parenchyma
- Collenchyma
Microbiology and Plant Pathology
- Viruses
- bacteria
- and plasmids-structure and reproduction
Plant Utility and Exploitation
- Origin of cultivated plants
- Vavilov's centres of origin
- Plants as sources for timber
Morphogenesis
- Totipotency
- polarity
- symmetry and differentiation
Cell Biology
- Techniques of Cell Biology
- Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells -structural and ultrastructural details
- Structure and function of extracellular matrix or ECM (cell wall) and membranes-cell adhesion, membrane and vesicular transport
Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution
- Development of genetics
- gene versus allele concepts (Pseudoalleles)
- Quantitative genetics and multiple factors
Plant Breeding, Biotechnology and Biostatistics
- Methods of plant breeding -- introduction
- selection and hybridization (pedigree, backcross, mass selection, bulk method)
- Male sterility and heterosis breeding
Physiology and Biochemistry
- Water relations
- Mineral nutrition and ion transport
- mineral deficiencies
Ecology and Plant Geography
- Ecological factors
- Concepts and dynamics of community
- Plant succession
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Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
- Organic Nomenclature
- IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules including regio- and stereoisomers
- Stereochemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
- Chemical periodicity
- Basic concept of periodicity
- periodic properties of s
Physical Chemistry
- Quantum mechanics
- Basic principles
- operator algebra
Recent and Applied Chemistry
- General concepts and applications
- Environmental and Green chemistry
- Nanaotechnology in chemistry
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Entomology
Insect Biodiversity and Biosystematics
- Evolution of insects
- introduction to class Insecta and its position in phylum Arthropoda
- history of insect classification
Commercial Entomology and other beneficial insects
- Apiculture
- Lac culture
- Sericulture
Insects and climate change
Ecological indicators of forest health
Bioinformatics
Insect Morphology
- Insect body structure
- cuticular outgrowths
- colouration and special integumentary structures in insects
Insect Physiology and Anatomy
- Scope and importance of insect anatomy and physiology
- anatomy and physiology of digestive
- excretory
Insect Ecology
- Concept of ecology, environment and its components-biotic and abiotic factors and their effects on growth, development, population dynamics, distribution and dispersal
- Principle of biogeography and insects biodiversity
- Biotic potential and environmental resistance
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- History
- principles and concepts of IPM
- ecological and socioeconomic aspects
Host Plant Resistance
- Chemical ecology
- mechano and chemo receptors
- Insect plant interactions
Biological Control of Insect Pests
- Importance, scope, components and concepts of biological control, history of biological control: Important entomophagous insect orders and families
- Evaluation and application of bio-control agents against insect pests for forest tree species
- Principles and procedures of using exotic biocontrol agents
Chemical Control and Toxicology
- History
- scope and principles of chemical control
- Classification of insecticides
Insect Pests and their Management
- Classification of forest insect pests
- type of damages and symptoms
- Factors for outbreak of pests in plantation and natural forest
Recent Trends in Entomology
- Molecular insect systematic and taxonomy
- genetic improvement and insect gene transformation of natural enemies
- and Relative insect resistance in plant species
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Forest Ecology & Environment Management
Fundamentals of Ecology
- Introduction
- Definition
- evolutionary/historical background
Ecosystem Analysis
- Major ecosystems
- Concept of Biosphere and ecosystem
- evaluation of ecosystem
Forest Ecology
- Forest types of India
- structure and biota
- mycorrrhizae and forests
Conservation Ecology
- Introduction
- Definition of conservation
- postulates of conservation biology
Restoration Ecology
- Introduction
- Definition
- aims and objectives of restoration
Pollution and Climatic Change
- Air
- water
- soil and noise pollution
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Forest Economics
Basics of Forest Economics and associated quantitative methods
- Micro and macroeconomics
- Relevance of economics to forestry sector
- Definition of Forest Industry Economics and Forest Management Economics
- How Forest Economics is different from normal economics? Economic indicators of contribution of forestry to GDP of a country
- The Forestry and Logging sector in Indian Economy
- its place in the National Industrial Classification 2008
- GDP of the Forestry Sector and Logging sector of India
- Utility and marginal analysis
- Law of diminishing marginal utility
- Consumer Surplus and Indifference Curve
- National Income and Related Aggregates
- Money and Banking
- Determination of Income and Employment
- Linear Programming
- Definition
- formulation
- Assumptions
- Solutions – graphical
- Simplex
- Pivoting rules
- Duality in LP
- Applications
- Definition of Econometrics
- Methods for econometric analysis
- Central Tendency and Dispersion
- Correlation and Regression
- multiple regression analysis
- Principal Component Analysis
- Factor Analysis
- Cluster Analysis
- Discriminant analysis and Structural Equation Modelling
- Concept of data
- Time Series data
- Longitudinal Data
- Techniques for forecasting
Production Forestry
- Concept of Production Functions (Single and Multiple Input cases)
- their characteristics and forms
- Production Possibility Curve
- Production theory as applied to forestry
- Laws of demand and supply
- Indifference Curves
- Elasticity of Demand
- Law of diminishing marginal returns
- Efficiency
- cost curves
- Isoquants
- Concept of Substitution
- Factors affecting demand and supply of forest products
Markets and firms
- Definition of Market
- Role of markets in forestry sector
- Forms and types of markets - Perfect Competition
- Imperfect competition - Monopoly
- Duopoly
- Oligopoly
- Market Regulations
- Marketing of forest products
- Demand and Supply Functions
- Demand estimation techniques
- Quantitative Techniques for analysis of demand and supply
- Factors of production
- land
- rent
- Interest
- Costs and revenues
- Opportunity Cost
- wages
- Investment criteria
- Definition
- joint production
- Definition of public goods
- Factors affecting forest management
- Ownership
- Size
- Cost of production
- Demand
- legal regulations
- accessibility
- taxation
- Integration in forestry firms
- Product Management
- Trade in Forest Products
- Absolute and Comparative Advantage
- Offer Curves
- Production Possibility Frontier
- Social Indifference Curves
- Autarky
- Equilibrium with and without trade
- The Heckscher-Ohlin model
- International Treaties and agreements on trade and tariff
- Exchange rate
- Databases related to trade in forest products
Non-Timber Forest Products and Forest Valuation, Forest Resource Economics
- Forest based ecosystem services
- Direct
- indirect
- use and non-use values
- determining forest ecosystem values and benefits
- Methods of monetization and valuation of forest resources and intangible services from forests
- Market Price Approach
- Surrogate Market Approach
- Production Function Approach
- Travel Cost method
- Hedonic Pricing Method
- Contingent Valuation Method
- Discrete Choice Experiments and Cost-based evaluation
- and their contribution to national accounts
- Compounding and Discounting
- Financial and Social Benefit
- cost analysis
- Net Present Value and Internal Rate of returns
- Sensitivity Analysis and its applications
- Determination of Stumpage value
- Factors affecting demand of eco-system goods and services
- Costs associated with supply of forest based Eco-system Goods and services
- Market Failure and forest degradation
- Tragedy of Common
- Environmental Kuznets Curve
- Externality
- Natural Resource Accounting
- Economics of ecosystems and biodiversity
- Economics of air
- water and carbon sequestration
Applications of Forest Economics
- Sources of revenue
- Risk and Uncertainty
- Treatment of time horizons
- Concept of Rotation
- economic rotation
- Land Expectation Value (Faustman’s Formula)
- Economics of Thinning
- Short and Long Rotation Crops
- Current Annual Increment
- Mean Annual Increment and their relationship
- Regeneration models of forests
- No direct cost and Direct Cost Models
- Optimum rotation and its assumptions
- Single rotation model and problems associated with it
- Multiple rotation model with constant scale replication
- Factors affecting rotation
- Effect of site quality
- mixed species stands
- Insect Pests
- Fire on rotation
- Allowable cut effect
- Sustained yield
- Sustainable forest management (SFM) and its criteria and indicators
- Economics of SFM
- Optimal Economic Models – Binkley’s Model
- Dimensions of Land-use
- Interdependence of land-uses
- Issues with land use planning
- Theory of Time preference
- Determination of social discount rate and associated disadvantages
- Economic Analysis and impact assessment of Forestry Projects
- nature
- scope and design of forestry projects
- Project planning – types
- levels and phases
- Project appraisal
- interim and post evaluation
- Case studies on analysis of forestry projects
- Climate Change
- Mitigation policies
- Carbon markets
- Environmental policies and Regulations
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Forestry
Silviculture
- Forest ecosystem
- classification of world’s forest vegetation
- productivity and vegetation forms of India
Agroforestry
- History in India
- potential and scope
- systems of the world and India
Forest Biometry
- Measurement of tree parameters
- modern tools and techniques
- estimation of volume
Forest Management
- Principles
- scope and object
- ecosystem management
Forest Products and Forest Industries
- forest based industries
- importance
- chemistry of forest products
Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
- forest ecology
- forest productivity
- ecology of forest landscapes
Forest Resource Management and Economics
- economics in forest management
- application of micro and macro-economics
- demand and supply
Forest Protection
- Important diseases and insect pests and their management
- assessment of losses
- vertebrate pests
Forest Policy And Laws And International Conventions
- National Forest Policies
- principles of criminal law
- Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS)
Reproductive Biology and Tree Improvement
- Reproductive Biology
- artificial vegetative propagation
- special modes of reproduction
Forests And People
- Forests and its importance
- forest societies
- interactions with people
Plantation Forestry
- Role of plantation forestry
- plantation forestry in India and abroad
- factors determining scale and rate
Environmental Conservation
- Environmental degradation
- pollution
- environmental conservation
Statistics (Research Methodology)
- Statistics
- definition
- object and scope
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Genetics
SECTION A: FOREST GENETICS
- Basic principles
- Introduction to forest genetics
- tree breeding and its applications
SECTION B: FOREST TREE BREEDING
- Techniques of tree breeding
- Self- and cross-pollinated tree species
- natives and exotics with their origin and distribution
SECTION C: APPLIED TREE IMPROVEMENT
- Species and provenance testing
- plus trees and their selection methods
- progeny testing and identification of elite trees
SECTION D: STATISTICAL METHODS AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS
- Frequency distribution
- measures of central tendency
- probability theory and its application in genetics
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Hydrology
Introduction
- Hydrological cycle
- components of hydrologic cycle
- storage
Atmospheric Water System and climate
- Characteristics of Atmosphere
- Atmospheric circulation patterns
- weather systems
Precipitation
- Precipitation types
- measurements
- analysis
Hydrologic Abstractions
- Interception and depression storage
- Evaporation
- Evaporation processes
Hydrometry
- Gauge and discharge sites
- site suitability
- river stage
Runoff
- Factor affecting
- runoff characteristics of stream
- impact of forest type and forest cover on runoff
Frequency Analysis
- Random variables
- Probability distribution functions
- normal
Groundwater
- Types of aquifers
- ground water recharge
- Darcy’s Law
Soil and water conservation
- Basics of soil and water conservation
- suitability & site selection for different types of water conservation measure
- Planning and design of Water conservation and rainwater harvesting measures
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Pathology
History
- Historical perspectives of forest/plant diseases
- Major epidemics and their social impacts
- Key contributors
Concept of tree disease
- What is a disease
- Causes of diseases
- Classification of diseases
Pathogens
- Fungi
- oomycetes
- bacteria
Abiotic disorders
Disease diagnoses
- Symptoms and signs
- Microscopy and micrometry
- Molecular tools in pathogen detection including serology (ELISA) and DNA-based tools (DNA barcoding, LAMP, Next Generation Sequencing, etc)
Disease epidemiology
- Disease cycles (monocyclic vs. polycyclic)
- Environmental influences (including climate change leading to shifts in pathogen distribution and increased susceptibility due to stress
- Vector (insects, human activities, etc.)
Disease resistance and host defence mechanisms
- Structural
- biochemical and genetic resistance
- Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) and induced systemic resistance (ISR)
Forest disease management
- Principles of disease management
- Cultural (silvicultural practices, sanitation, etc.)
- Chemical (fungicides, antibiotics, etc.)
Seed diseases
- Internal and external seed borne diseases
- for eg
- seed rot fungi (Aspergillus, Penicillium, etc.)
Nursery diseases
- Damping off (Pythium, Phytophthora, Rhizoctonia, Fusarium, etc.)
- Leaf spot and blight (Alternaria, Colletotrichum spp.)
- Powdery mildew (Erysiphe, Podosphaera, Golovinomyces, etc.)
Foliar diseases
- Powdery and downy mildew
- Leaf spot and blight
- Rust
Stem and bark diseases
- Canker
- Heart rot (Ganoderma, Fomes, etc.)
- Stem canker (Botryosphaeria, Nectria, Cryphonectria parasitica, etc.)
Root diseases
- Root rots- (Ganoderma., Armillaria mellea, Phytophthora, etc.)
- Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.)
- Pine wilt nematode
Rot, decay and stain
- White root rot (Rigidoporus microporus)
- Brown cubical rot (Laetiporus sulphureus)
- bacterial soft rot
Emerging diseases
- Neem dieback
- Poplar dieback
- Sudden Oak Death (Phytophthora ramorum)
Tools in forest pathology
- Bioinformatics
- PCR
- qRT PCR
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Soil Science
Definition and concept of soil
- weathering and soil formation
- soil profile development
- features of a typical soil profile
Mineralogical properties of soil
- important primary and secondary minerals and their influence on soil behavior
Physical properties of soil
- texture
- structure
- density
Chemical properties of soil
- formation of organic and inorganic soil colloids
- types of clay minerals
- clay : humus complex
Biological properties of soil
- Role of macro- and micro organisms and their influence on soil conditions
- important microflora involved in mineralization of nutrient elements
- biological nitrogen fixation and role of associated microbes (for both symbiotic and non-symbiotic processes)
Concept of chemical analysis
- Solution reactions
- titrimetric analysis
- concept of standard solution
Mineral nutrition
- essential nutrient elements for plant growth as per Arnon's essentiality criteria, Macro- and micro-nutrients and their role in plant growth and development, deficiency symptoms, nutrient deficiency induced plant ailments such as khaira disease of rice, heart rots in fruits and vegetables, Lime induced iron chlorosis, major organic and inorganic sources of nutrients for environment friendly biomass production cultures
- soil fertility, management of soil fertility for sustainable yields under different climatic conditions, poly houses, minimum tillage cultures
- permaculture
Soil fertility evaluation
- soil testing
- plant and tissue tests and biological methods
- Common soil test methods for fertilizer recommendation
Application of statistics for experimental designs
- analysis of variance
- correlations for data interpretations
Soil survey and classification
- Types of soil survey
- basis for selection of suitable method of survey
- soil classification
Organic and inorganic fertilizers
- Soil erosion
- types and causes of erosion
- conservation measures and watershed management
Major constraints of Indian soils for raising biomass productivity and measures for improvement
- role of soil in mitigating impact of GHGs
- climate change leading to global warming
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Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
| Post | Approximate Number Of Posts | Category Breakup | Pay Level | Disciplines | Place Of Posting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientist-B | 25 | UR-10, EWS-04, SC-04, OBC-06, ST-01 | Candidates declared successful for the post of Scientist-B will be recommended for appointment in the level 10 (7th CPC) of the Pay Matrix, Rs. 56,100 - 1,77,500, plus allowances as admissible under the rules and orders of ICFRE. | Hydrology, Pathology, Chemistry, Soil Science, Forest Economics, Botany, Forestry, Forest Ecology & Environment Management, Entomology and Genetics. | Any of the Institutes or Centres of the Council at Dehradun, Jabalpur, Jodhpur, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Jorhat, Shimla, Ranchi, Hyderabad, Prayagraj, Chhindwara, Agartala, Aizwal and Vishakapatnam, with liability to serve at any Institute or Centre under ICFRE within India. |
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