syllabi 10+1 voc streams - Government Senior Secondary School ...

4. Use of manure and fertilizers for important vegetable crops.
5. Interculture operations like hoeing, earthing and staking in vegetables.
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Time : 3 hrs. PRACTICAL M. Marks : 50
SEMESTER-II
1. Hardening of nursery seedlings.
2. Study of nutrient deficiency symptoms in important vegetable crops.
3. Weed control in vegetable crops.
4. Identification of important diseases of vegetable and their control.
5. Visit to a vegetable seed production farm and seed processing unit.
6. Grading and packaging of vegetable crops.
(ii) AGRI BUSINESS
PAPER-I ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE
Time:2 hrs Theory Marks: 30
Syllabus Internal Assessment: 10
Semester-I Total Marks: 40
1. Definition of agriculture, its scope and importance, common agricultural, horticultural crops,
factors affecting crop production.
2. Soil and water in relation to plant growth.
3. Types of soils, soil fertility, saline and alkaline soils.
4. Critical stages of crops for irrigation, methods of irrigation, water conveyance.
5. Characteristic features of rainted and dryland agriculture.
6. Definition of manures and fertilizer, role in crop production.
7. Principles and practices of integrated nutrient management (INM), use of bio-fertilizers.
Time:2 hrs Theory Marks: 30
Syllabus Internal Assessment: 15
Semester-II Total Marks: 45
8. Crop production practices including soil and water requirement of crops selection of crops
according to seasons, field and seed bed preparation, seed treatment, sowing, planting and
intercultivation practices, weeds and weed management/control.
9. Seed its development and multiplication.
10. Importance of pest and diseases management. Common diseases and pests of important crops.
Common insecticides, fungicides, acaricides, rodenticide, nematicides and antibiotics and their
uses.
11. Integrated pest and disease management.
12. Familiarization, handling, calibration and use of common farm machinery and implements and
safety precautions.
13. Methods of drying-open drying, solar drying, natural drying and mechanical drying.
14. Traditional and modern storage structures. Storage conditions for different agricultural produce
and control of stored grain pest.
15. Processing of produce-shelling cleaning, grading, mixing and packaging methods.
16. Role of livestock's and poultry in economy.