CUET Agriculture Syllabus 2024

Horticulture 

• Importance of vegetables and fruits in crop diversification, human diet, and the food processing industry. 
• Pruning, Planting method, training, intercropping, frost and sunburn protection. 
• Ornamental landscaping, design, orchard location, and vegetable garden. 
• Cultivation, marketing, and processing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. 
• Trees, shrubs, climbers, annuals, perennials-definition, and examples. Seed cutting, layering, budding, and grafting propagation. 
• Packaging and preparation of jams, jellies, ketchup and chips. 
• Methods and principles for preserving fruits and vegetables. 

Animal Production 

• Relevance and Significance 

1. The significance of livestock in agriculture and industry and the White Revolution in India 
2. Poultry distribution in India and essential foreign and Indian breeds like buffalo, cow, etc. 

• Care and Administration: 

1. Housing systems for livestock and poultry. 
2. Techniques and principles for feeding. 

The definition of the ration and the elements are in sync. 

(d) The management of lactating and pregnant animals, chicks, crocks, layers, calves, and bullocks. 

(e) Signs of ill animals and common diseases in poultry and cattle, such as rinderpest, black quarter, foot-and-mouth disease, mastitis, and hemorrhagic septicemia. The prevention and treatment of coccidiosis, fowl pox, and Ranikhet sickness. 

• Artificial Insemination: Prevention of sperm, reproductive organs, collection, dilution, and artificial insemination in cattle improvement. Milk and milk products are processed and marketed as livestock goods. 

Plant Production 

• Soil, Soil Fertility, Fertilizers and Manure: 

1. Soil and its pH, structure, texture, organisms, soil fertility, soil tilth, and soil health. 
2. Plant nutrients, their functions, and symptoms of lack. 
3. India’s soil types and their characteristics. 
4. Organic manure, conventional fertilisers including simple, complex, and biofertilisers, and an integrated nutrient management system. 

Agriculture and Meteorology, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Biochemistry and Microbiology 

• Agrometeorology: Elements of Weather (Rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind speed), sunshine weather predictions and climate change in crop production. 
• Microbiology: Elements of Weather (Rainfall, Temperature, Humidity, wind speed), Sunshine weather predictions, and climate change in crop production. 
• Biochemistry: pH and buffers Classification and naming of carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamin, and enzyme molecules.