OPSC Syllabus Assistant Conservator of Forests : Odisha Public Service Commission

Organisation : Odisha Public Service Commission OPSC
Recruitment Exam : Assistant Conservator of Forests
Document Type : Syllabus
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OPSC Assistant Conservator of Forests Syllabus

Paper-I :
General English :
The question paper in General English will be designed to test the candidate’s understanding of English and workmanlike use of words as noted below.
The pattern of questions would broadly be as follows:
Comprehension of a given passage — 30 Marks
Precis writing with a passage of around 1000 words — 40 Marks
Translation from Odia to English — 30 Marks
Grammar, usage and vocabulary — 80 Marks
Short Essay of around 1000 words — 100 Marks
Expansion of an idea — 20 Marks
Total — 300 Marks

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Paper-II :
General Knowledge : 300 Marks
The paper in General knowledge will include knowledge of current events and of such matters as of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person, who has not made a special study of any scientific subject. The paper will also include questions on Indian polity including the political system and the constitution of India, History of India and Geography of a nature, which the candidates should be able to answer without special study.

Optional Subjects :
Total number of questions in the question papers of optional subjects will be eight. All questions will carry equal marks. Each paper will be divided into two parts, viz. Part A and Part B, each part containing four questions. Out of eight questions, five questions are to be attempted. One question in each part will be compulsory. Candidates will be required to answer three more questions out of the remaining six questions, taking at least one question from each Part. In this way, at least two questions will be attempted from each Part i.e. one compulsory question plus one more.

AGRICULTURE PAPER-I :
Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, their sustainable management and conservation. Physical and social environment as factors of crop distribution and production. Climatic elements as factors of crop growth, impact of changing environment on cropping pattern as indicators of environments. Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals, and humans.

Cropping pattern in different agro-climatic zones of the country. Impact of high-yielding and short-duration varieties on shifts in cropping pattern. Concepts of multiple cropping, multistory, relay and intercropping, and their importance in relation to food production. Package of practices for production of important cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fibers, sugar, commercial and fodder crops grown during Kharif and Rabi seasons in different regions of the country. Important features, scope and propagation of various types of forestry plantations such as extension, social forestry, agro-forestry and natural forests.

Weeds, their characteristics, dissemination and association with various cropts; their multiplication; cultural, biological and chemical control of weeds. Soil-physical, chemical and biological properties. Processes and factors of soil formation. Modern classification of Indian soils, Mineral and organic constituents of soils and their role in maintaining soil productivity. Essential plant nutrients and other beneficial elements in soils and plants. Principles of soil fertility and its evaluation for judicious fertilizer use, integrated nutrient management. Losses of nitrogen in soil, nitrogen-use efficiency in submerged rice soils, nitrogen fixation in soils. Fixation of phosphorus and potassium in soils and the scope for their efficient use. Problem soils and their reclamation methods.

Soil conservation planning on watershed basis. Erosion and run-off management in hilly, foot hills and valley lands; processes and factors affecting them. Dry land agriculture and its problems. Technology of stabilizing agriculture production in rain fed agriculture area.

Water-use efficiency in relation to crop production, criteria for scheduling irrigations, ways and means of reducing run-off losses of irrigation water. Drip and sprinkler irrigation. Drainage of water-logged soils, quality of irrigation water, effect of industrial effluents on soil and water pollution. Farm management, scope, important and characteristics, farm planning. Optimum resources use and budgeting. Economics of different types of farming systems.

Marketing and pricing of agricultural inputs and outputs, price fluctuations and their cost; role of co-operatives in agricultural economy; types and systems of farming and factors affecting them.

Agricultural extension, its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programmes, socio-economic survey and status of big, small and marginal farmers and landless agricultural labourers; farm mechanization and its role in agricultural production and rural employment. Training programmes for extension workers; lab-to-land programmes.

Scheme of Written Exam for Assistant Conservator of Forests

1. The written examination shall be on the following papers, two compulsory and four optional papers carrying 300 marks and 200 marks each respectively with a duration of three hours
Paper I General English 300 Marks
Paper II General Knowledge 300 Marks
Paper III First Optional (Paper I) 200 Marks
Paper IV First Optional (Paper II) 200 Marks
Paper V Second Optional (Paper I) 200 Marks
Paper VI Second Optional (Paper II) 200 Marks
Total 1400 Marks

2. List of optional Subjects :- A candidate shall select any two subjects from the following and each subject shall have two papers:-
(i) Agriculture
(ii) Agriculture Engineering
(iii) Veterinary Science &
(iv) Botany
(v) Chemistry
(vi) Chemical Engineering
(vii) Civil Engineering
(viii) Forestry
(ix) Geology
(x) Mathematics Animal Husbandry
(xi) Mechanical Engineering
(xii) Physics
(xiii) Statistics
(xiv) Zoology

Provided that the candidates will not be allowed to offer the following combination of subjects:-
(a) Agriculture and Agricultural Engineering
(b) Agriculture and veterinary science and Animal Husbandry
(c) Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
(d) Mathematics and Statistics
(e) Of the engineering subjects viz Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering not more than one subject.

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