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The Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB) was established with the approval of Cabinet on 1 November 1973 as an independent recruitment agency in pursuance of the recommendations of the Gajendragadkar Committee.

Latest Notification

ASRB 2022 or Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB) will conduct a combined online computer-based examination for NET-2022, ARS-2022 (Preliminary), and Senior Technical Officer (STO) (T6) Examination at 32 centers across India in a staggered slot-wise examination format. The National Eligibility Test for Agricultural Scientists is held once a year at the national level by the Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board. Interested candidates can check the official website for more details.

Registration

To apply for the exam candidates first have to go through the notification and then proceed to apply via online mode. Here are the steps one must follow to apply for the ASRB exam 2022.

Step 1: Interested candidates need to visit the official website of ASRB or ICAR, i.e., asrb.org.in.
Step 2: Then click on the ASRB Recruitment 2022 link.
Step 3: After that, they must click on the ‘New Registration’ link and fill out the registration form with their name, mobile number, and a valid e-mail Id.
Step 4: After that, they will receive a registration number and password which will be directly sent to their registered e-mail Id to log in.
Step 5: Then using the registration number and password, they must log in to their account.
Step 6: They will then see the application form for the exam.
Step 7: They should fill the application form with personal details and academic qualification details and then select their exam city.
Step 8: After filling out the form, they have to upload all the relevant documents.
Step 9: The candidates have to proceed to the next step and make the payment for the exam.
Step 10: After the submission of the application, they should download the soft copy of the application form and payment receipt for future references.

Eligibility Criteria

The eligibility criteria are given below:

ASRB STO Age Limit

A candidate seeking admission to the ARS Examination must have attained the age of 21 years but not have attained the age of 32 years as of 01.01.2022. The upper age limit prescribed above will also be relaxable –

Up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to SC or ST.
Up to a maximum of 3 years in the case of candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes, who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates, i.e. Non-creamy layer

ASRB STO Educational Qualification

A candidate for the Agricultural Research Service must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent in the discipline concerned with specialization.

Application Fee

Gen- 1000 INR OBC- 500 INR SC/ST/Women/PWD- 250 INR

Exam Pattern

It will be an online CBT exam.
Total questions – 150
Total marks – 150
Total time – 120 minutes
Marking scheme – 1 mark for a right answer, -1/3 for the wrong answer.
Mains Exam would be 1:15 category-wise for each post.

Syllabus

The syllabus for all the programs of ASRB NET exam 2022 is as follows.

Agricultural Biotechnology

Unit 1: Molecular genetics
Unit 2: Biomolecules and metabolism
Unit 3: Molecular biology techniques
Unit 4: Cell structure and function
Unit 5: Gene cloning
Unit 6: Gene expressions
Unit 7: Enzymology
Unit 8: Plant molecular biology
Unit 9: Molecular biology
Unit 10: Tissue culture
Unit 11: Plant genetic engineering

Economic Botany & Plant Genetic Resources

Unit 1: Plant Taxonomy and bio-system
Unit 2: Germplasm augmentation
Unit 3: Germplasm conservation
Unit 5: Plant quarantine
Unit 6: Economically important plants- I
Unit 7: Economically important plants- II
Unit 8: Biotechnology in PGR
Unit 9: Biodiversity and plant genetic resources
Unit 10: Germplasm characterization, evaluation, maintenance, and regeneration

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Unit 1: Economics botany and plant breeding methods
Unit 2: Quantitative and biometrical genetics
Unit 3: Genome organization and cytogenetic of crop plants
Unit 4: General genetics and plant breeding
Unit 5: Genetic engineering and biotechnology tools in plant breeding
Unit 6: Plant breeding for stress resistance and nutritional quality
Unit 7: Statistical methods and field plot techniques in plant breeding
Unit 8: Plant genetic resources and their regulatory system; varietal release and seed production

Soil Science & Technology

Unit 1: Seed biology
Unit 2: Seed production
Unit 3: Seed health
Unit 4: Seed quality control
Unit 5: Seed storage
Unit 6: Seed processing
Unit 7: Seed industry development and marketing
Unit 8: Protection of plant varieties

Floriculture & Landscaping

Unit 1: Breeding
Unit 2: Production technology of cut and loose flowers
Unit 4: Landscaping
Unit 5: Protected floriculture
Unit 6: Turfing and turf management
Unit 7: Value addition
Unit 8: Computer-aided designing for outdoor and indoor scraping

Spices, Plantation & Medicinal & Aromatic Plants

Unit 1: Production of plantation crops
Unit 2: Production technology of spice crops
Unit 3: Processing of plantation crops, spices, medicinal and aromatic plants
Unit 4: Breeding of plantation crop & spice
Unit 5: Breeding of medicinal and aromatics crops
Unit 6: Agronomy of medicinal, aromatics, and under-utilized crops
Unit 7: Organic spice and plantation crop production technology

Animal Biotechnology

Unit 1: Cell biology
Unit 2: Molecular biology
Unit 3: Molecular biology techniques
Unit 4: Genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology in animals
Unit 5: Gene structure and regulation of gene expression
Unit 6: reproductive biotechnology and related techniques
Unit 7: Cell culture and hybridoma technology

Dairy Microbiology

Unit 1: Bacteriological aspects of processing techniques
Unit 2: Preservation of milk and milk products by physical and chemical agents
Unit 3: Microbiological quality of fat-rich products
Unit 4: Lactic acid bacteria as starters
Unit 5: Microbiological quality of indigenous dairy products
Unit 6: Role of starters in the preparation of yogurt, koumiss, kefir, cultured buttermilk and whey-based beverages, and other fermented products
Unit 7: Dairy products as functional or health foods
Unit 8: Preparation of byproducts from dairy effluents by microbial fermentation
Unit 9: Microbiological aspects of quality control and quality assurance in the production of milk and milk products

Livestock Product Technology

Unit 1: Basic aspects of livestock products
Unit 2: Processing and preservation
Unit 3: Abattoir and poultry processing plants
Unit 4: Wool, mohair, and fur
Unit 5: Packaging
Unit 6: Quality control
Unit 7: Marketing

Veterinary Medicine

Unit 1: General medicine
Unit 2: Gastroenterology
Unit 3: Diseases of urinary, nervous, musculoskeletal, and integumentary systems
Unit 4: Diseases of the cardiovascular and pulmonary system
Unit 5: Diagnosis of animal diseases
Unit 6: Common toxicities
Unit 7: Product and deficiency diseases
Unit 8: Infectious diseases (bacterial and mycoplasma and viral, fungal, etc.)
Unit 9: Parasitic diseases and Poultry diseases
Unit 10: Veterinary jurisprudence and ethics
Unit 11: Special therapeutic approaches
Unit 12: Common diseases of Zoo, laboratory animals, and wildlife
Unit 13: Prevention and control of diseases

Fish Processing Technology

Unit 1: Craft technology
Unit 2: Gear technology
Unit 3: Process biochemistry
Unit 4: Fishery engineering
Unit 5: Fish processing technology
Unit 6: Economics and marketing
Unit 7: Microbiology, quality management, and certification

Agronomy

Unit 1: Crop ecology and geography
Unit 2: Crop production in problem soils
Unit 3: Crop production
Unit 4: Dryland agronomy
Unit 5: Agricultural statistics
Unit 6: Weed management
Unit 7: Soil fertility and fertilizer use
Unit 8: Sustainable land-use systems
Unit 9: Basics of soil and water
Unit 10: Soil water and Plant water relationship
Unit 11: Irrigation water management
Unit 12: Management of problematic soils and water

Home Science

Unit 1: Human nutrition, health, and interventions
Unit 2: Food science and processing technologies
Unit 3: Human development and family dynamics
Unit 4: Home science extension and communication methods
Unit 5: Family resource management
Unit 6: Consumer science
Unit 7: Textile science, fashion designing, and garment production

Land & Water Management Engineering

Unit 1: Groundwater development, wells, and pumps
Unit 2: Open channel hydraulics
Unit 5: Soil, plant, water, atmosphere relationship
Unit 4: Hydrology and soil and water conservation
Unit 3: Irrigation water management
Unit 6: Watershed management
Unit 7: Management of degraded, waterlogged, etc.

Food Technology

Unit 1: Introductory food technology
Unit 2: Food quality management
Unit 3: Food microbiology & biotechnology
Unit 4: Technology of foods of plant origin
Unit 5: Technology of foods of animal origin
Unit 6: Food engineering/ packaging and labeling
Unit 7: Flavor chemistry technology
Unit 8: Consumer sciences/ food products development/ health foods

Agricultural Chemicals

Unit 1: General chemistry
Unit 2: Naturally occurring insecticides
Unit 3: Chemistry of natural products
Unit 4: Herbicides and plant growth regulators
Unit 5: Chromatography and spectroscopic technique
Unit 6: Agrochemical formulations
Unit 7: Pesticides residues and dynamic in the environment
Unit 8: Natural resource management
Unit 9: Environmental pollution: implication & remediation
Unit 11: Synthetic insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, etc.
Unit 10: Data analysis

Veterinary Anatomy

Unit 1: Gross anatomy
Unit 2: Microanatomy
Unit 3: Organs of the digestive, respiratory, and urogenital system in fowl
Unit 4: Developmental anatomy

Eligibilty Criteria

The eligibility criteria are given below:

ASRB STO Age Limit

A candidate seeking admission to the ARS Examination must have attained the age of 21 years but not have attained the age of 32 years as of 01.01.2022. The upper age limit prescribed above will also be relaxable –

Up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to SC or ST.
Up to a maximum of 3 years in the case of candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes, who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates, i.e. Non-creamy layer

ASRB STO Educational Qualification

A candidate for the Agricultural Research Service must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent in the discipline concerned with specialization.

Exam Pattern

It will be an online CBT exam.
Total questions – 150
Total marks – 150
Total time – 120 minutes
Marking scheme – 1 mark for a right answer, -1/3 for the wrong answer.
Mains Exam would be 1:15 category-wise for each post.

Syllabus

The syllabus for all the programs of ASRB NET exam 2022 is as follows.

Agricultural Biotechnology

Unit 1: Molecular genetics
Unit 2: Biomolecules and metabolism
Unit 3: Molecular biology techniques
Unit 4: Cell structure and function
Unit 5: Gene cloning
Unit 6: Gene expressions
Unit 7: Enzymology
Unit 8: Plant molecular biology
Unit 9: Molecular biology
Unit 10: Tissue culture
Unit 11: Plant genetic engineering

Economic Botany & Plant Genetic Resources

Unit 1: Plant Taxonomy and bio-system
Unit 2: Germplasm augmentation
Unit 3: Germplasm conservation
Unit 5: Plant quarantine
Unit 6: Economically important plants- I
Unit 7: Economically important plants- II
Unit 8: Biotechnology in PGR
Unit 9: Biodiversity and plant genetic resources
Unit 10: Germplasm characterization, evaluation, maintenance, and regeneration

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Unit 1: Economics botany and plant breeding methods
Unit 2: Quantitative and biometrical genetics
Unit 3: Genome organization and cytogenetic of crop plants
Unit 4: General genetics and plant breeding
Unit 5: Genetic engineering and biotechnology tools in plant breeding
Unit 6: Plant breeding for stress resistance and nutritional quality
Unit 7: Statistical methods and field plot techniques in plant breeding
Unit 8: Plant genetic resources and their regulatory system; varietal release and seed production

Soil Science & Technology

Unit 1: Seed biology
Unit 2: Seed production
Unit 3: Seed health
Unit 4: Seed quality control
Unit 5: Seed storage
Unit 6: Seed processing
Unit 7: Seed industry development and marketing
Unit 8: Protection of plant varieties

Floriculture & Landscaping

Unit 1: Breeding
Unit 2: Production technology of cut and loose flowers
Unit 4: Landscaping
Unit 5: Protected floriculture
Unit 6: Turfing and turf management
Unit 7: Value addition
Unit 8: Computer-aided designing for outdoor and indoor scraping

Spices, Plantation & Medicinal & Aromatic Plants

Unit 1: Production of plantation crops
Unit 2: Production technology of spice crops
Unit 3: Processing of plantation crops, spices, medicinal and aromatic plants
Unit 4: Breeding of plantation crop & spice
Unit 5: Breeding of medicinal and aromatics crops
Unit 6: Agronomy of medicinal, aromatics, and under-utilized crops
Unit 7: Organic spice and plantation crop production technology

Animal Biotechnology

Unit 1: Cell biology
Unit 2: Molecular biology
Unit 3: Molecular biology techniques
Unit 4: Genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology in animals
Unit 5: Gene structure and regulation of gene expression
Unit 6: reproductive biotechnology and related techniques
Unit 7: Cell culture and hybridoma technology

Dairy Microbiology

Unit 1: Bacteriological aspects of processing techniques
Unit 2: Preservation of milk and milk products by physical and chemical agents
Unit 3: Microbiological quality of fat-rich products
Unit 4: Lactic acid bacteria as starters
Unit 5: Microbiological quality of indigenous dairy products
Unit 6: Role of starters in the preparation of yogurt, koumiss, kefir, cultured buttermilk and whey-based beverages, and other fermented products
Unit 7: Dairy products as functional or health foods
Unit 8: Preparation of byproducts from dairy effluents by microbial fermentation
Unit 9: Microbiological aspects of quality control and quality assurance in the production of milk and milk products

Livestock Product Technology

Unit 1: Basic aspects of livestock products
Unit 2: Processing and preservation
Unit 3: Abattoir and poultry processing plants
Unit 4: Wool, mohair, and fur
Unit 5: Packaging
Unit 6: Quality control
Unit 7: Marketing

Veterinary Medicine

Unit 1: General medicine
Unit 2: Gastroenterology
Unit 3: Diseases of urinary, nervous, musculoskeletal, and integumentary systems
Unit 4: Diseases of the cardiovascular and pulmonary system
Unit 5: Diagnosis of animal diseases
Unit 6: Common toxicities
Unit 7: Product and deficiency diseases
Unit 8: Infectious diseases (bacterial and mycoplasma and viral, fungal, etc.)
Unit 9: Parasitic diseases and Poultry diseases
Unit 10: Veterinary jurisprudence and ethics
Unit 11: Special therapeutic approaches
Unit 12: Common diseases of Zoo, laboratory animals, and wildlife
Unit 13: Prevention and control of diseases

Fish Processing Technology

Unit 1: Craft technology
Unit 2: Gear technology
Unit 3: Process biochemistry
Unit 4: Fishery engineering
Unit 5: Fish processing technology
Unit 6: Economics and marketing
Unit 7: Microbiology, quality management, and certification

Agronomy

Unit 1: Crop ecology and geography
Unit 2: Crop production in problem soils
Unit 3: Crop production
Unit 4: Dryland agronomy
Unit 5: Agricultural statistics
Unit 6: Weed management
Unit 7: Soil fertility and fertilizer use
Unit 8: Sustainable land-use systems
Unit 9: Basics of soil and water
Unit 10: Soil water and Plant water relationship
Unit 11: Irrigation water management
Unit 12: Management of problematic soils and water

Home Science

Unit 1: Human nutrition, health, and interventions
Unit 2: Food science and processing technologies
Unit 3: Human development and family dynamics
Unit 4: Home science extension and communication methods
Unit 5: Family resource management
Unit 6: Consumer science
Unit 7: Textile science, fashion designing, and garment production

Land & Water Management Engineering

Unit 1: Groundwater development, wells, and pumps
Unit 2: Open channel hydraulics
Unit 5: Soil, plant, water, atmosphere relationship
Unit 4: Hydrology and soil and water conservation
Unit 3: Irrigation water management
Unit 6: Watershed management
Unit 7: Management of degraded, waterlogged, etc.

Food Technology

Unit 1: Introductory food technology
Unit 2: Food quality management
Unit 3: Food microbiology & biotechnology
Unit 4: Technology of foods of plant origin
Unit 5: Technology of foods of animal origin
Unit 6: Food engineering/ packaging and labeling
Unit 7: Flavor chemistry technology
Unit 8: Consumer sciences/ food products development/ health foods

Agricultural Chemicals

Unit 1: General chemistry
Unit 2: Naturally occurring insecticides
Unit 3: Chemistry of natural products
Unit 4: Herbicides and plant growth regulators
Unit 5: Chromatography and spectroscopic technique
Unit 6: Agrochemical formulations
Unit 7: Pesticides residues and dynamic in the environment
Unit 8: Natural resource management
Unit 9: Environmental pollution: implication & remediation
Unit 11: Synthetic insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, etc.
Unit 10: Data analysis

Veterinary Anatomy

Unit 1: Gross anatomy
Unit 2: Microanatomy
Unit 3: Organs of the digestive, respiratory, and urogenital system in fowl
Unit 4: Developmental anatomy

ASRB Recruitment

About

Latest Notification

Registration

Eligibility Criteria

ASRB STO Age Limit

ASRB STO Educational Qualification

Application Fee

Exam Pattern

Syllabus

Agricultural Biotechnology

Economic Botany & Plant Genetic Resources

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Soil Science & Technology

Floriculture & Landscaping

Spices, Plantation & Medicinal & Aromatic Plants

Animal Biotechnology

Dairy Microbiology

Livestock Product Technology

Veterinary Medicine

Fish Processing Technology

Agronomy

Home Science

Land & Water Management Engineering

Food Technology

Agricultural Chemicals

Veterinary Anatomy

Eligibilty Criteria

ASRB STO Age Limit

ASRB STO Educational Qualification

Exam Pattern

Syllabus

Agricultural Biotechnology

Economic Botany & Plant Genetic Resources

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Soil Science & Technology

Floriculture & Landscaping

Spices, Plantation & Medicinal & Aromatic Plants

Animal Biotechnology

Dairy Microbiology

Livestock Product Technology

Veterinary Medicine

Fish Processing Technology

Agronomy

Home Science

Land & Water Management Engineering

Food Technology

Agricultural Chemicals

Veterinary Anatomy

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