ICAR JRF HORTICULTURE GUIDANCE

This is the list and way to crack the exam all the time.
List of books: Give preference as listed -

Horticulture:
1. Handbook of Horticulture

K. L. Chadha
ALL BOOK FROM COVER TO LAST PAGE

2. Basic Horticulture
Jitendra Singh
Understand the horticulture, clear each & every concept
Pomology
1. Fruits
Ranjit Singh
Know major and minor fruit crops

2. Textbook of Pomology
S.P. Singh
THOROUGHLY

3. Fruit physiology
Amar Singh
1st part thoroughly and overlook 2nd part if u r filling incompleteness about any point.

4. Horticulture at Glance
A.S. Salaria
Pomology never be completed without this book.
But to understand it thoroughly u have to read descriptive part first.

Olericulture
1. Vegetables
B. Chaudhary
Know all major and minor vegetables

2. Technology for vegetable production and development
Hazara and Som
Do all the tables and charts thoroughly.

3. Vegetables, Tuber crops, spices and condiments
Thamburajan et al.
Read this, make notes if possible, vvv imp.

4. Vegetable production technology
Neeraj pratap Singh
Objective type, do at last, first do theoretical part.

Floriculture
1.Fundamentals of ornamental horticulture
J.S. Arora
All chapters, for annuls don’t go for varietal mug up, do it from handbook

2.Floriculture in India
M.S. Randhawa
History, garden part- types, principles and features of landscape gardening, Bonsai, flower arrangement.

3. Floriculture at a glance
Deshraj
Do it last

Spices condiment medicinal and aromatic plants
1.Spices condiment medicinal and aromatic plants
N. Kumar
More than enough,
Don’t take it for option
Remember always there is no option

2. Medicinal and aromatic notes from Dhule college.


Post harvest
1.Post harvest technology in fruits and vegetables
by R.P. Shrivastava
All appendix upto 12, and whatever u r studied in Post harvest course at college but just revise from book
objectives
1. Instant Horticulture
Gupta and Naik
All chapters, play it with for timepass, do it at last

2. Objectives Horticulture
Umrao and Singh
AT LAST, Same as Instant Horticulture.
General agriculture
Fundamentals of Agriculture Part I& II
Arun Kattyan
Tough read, not easy to understand but he had covered almost all topics related to agriculture.

General Agriculture
Muneeraj Singh
Don’t refer previous data wait for current one.

Objectives agriculture
Rammanna Rao
First 45 pages only

Anything else from magazines, Survey of Indian agriculture(The Hindu ),Indian Horticulture, New arrivals in agriculture etc.