Paper -I

SL.No. Topics Date

E Process and Food Engineering
1 Unit operations in post harvest processing (cleaning, grading,) 16.01.2020
2 Drying, size reduction 17.01.2020
3 Evaporation, pasteurization, distillation etc 18.01.2020
4 Processing of cereals, pulses, oilseeds, 19.01.2020
5 Processing of cereals fruits & vegetables, 20.01.2020
6 Processing of cereals animal feed, spices, 21.01.2020
7 Processing of cereals dairy products, meat etc.; 22.01.2020
8 Design of processing equipment and systems, 23.01.2020
9 Milking machines. 24.01.2020
A Farm Machinery
1 Design, construction, operation of tillage tools 25.01.2020
2 Repair and maintenance of tillage tools 26.01.2020
3 Implements and equipment viz. mould board and disk plough; 27.01.2020
4 harrows, cultivators, rotary tiller, 28.01.2020
5 Seeding and planting machines, hoe, weeders, sprayers and dusters; 29.01.2020
6 Harvester, threshers and combines; 30.01.2020
Soil and crop factors influencing machine performance and energy
7 requirements; 31.01.2020
8 Selection of farm machines, economics of agricultural mechanization. 01.02.2020
9 Earth moving machineries. 02.02.2020
B Farm Power
1 Sources and status of power in India; 03.02.2020
2 Farm power and agricultural productivity relationship; 04.02.2020
3 Construction and operational features of IC engines, 05.02.2020
4 Various system of IC engine namely carburetion, 06.02.2020
5 Ignition,cooling,lubrication; 07.02.2020
6 Valves and valve timing, 08.02.2020
7 Special features of diesel engines, 09.02.2020
8 Tractors and their classification, 10.02.2020
9 Power transimission,repair and maintenance; 11.02.2020
10 Tractor testing,and tractor economics; 12.02.2020
11 Power tillers – their economics and suitability, 13.02.2020
12 Energy in Agriculture. 14.02.2020
B Thermodynamics and Heat Engines
1 Concept of energy, 15.02.2020
2 Temperature and heat equations; 16.02.2020
3 Laws of thermodynamics, 17.02.2020
4 Pure substances and their properties; 18.02.2020
5 Entropy, Rankine 19.02.2020
6 Air standard Otto, 20.02.2020
7 Diesel and Joule cycles; 21.02.2020
8 Indicator diagrams. 22.02.2020
D Heat and Mass Transfer
1 Thermal properties of materials; 23.02.2020
2 steady state and transient heat conduction, 24.02.2020
3 Natural and forced convection; boiling, condensation, 25.02.2020
4 thermal radiation exchange, Heat exchangers, 26.02.2020
5 heat and mass transfer analogy; 27.02.2020
6 Fick's laws of diffusion, psychrometrics; 28.02.2020
Analysis of heat and mass transfer processes, instrument and
7 measurement systems. 29.02.2020
F Storage and handling
1 Changes in stored products during storage; 01.03.2020
Storage of food grains and their products, perishables (vegetable, fruits,
dairy product, meat and eggs) storage system- air tight ventilated,
2 refrigerated, 02.03.2020
3 Modified atmospheric and controlled atmospheric storages; 03.03.2020
4 Packaging; 04.03.2020
5 conveyors; 05.03.2020
6 Design and management of storage and handling systems. 06.03.2020
7 Reducing losses in storages and handling. 07.03.2020
Paper -II
A Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics
1 Fluid properties,units and dimensions: 08.03.2020
2 Surface tension and capillarity, 09.03.2020
3 Equation of continuity, 10.03.2020
4 Bernoulli equation, 11.03.2020
5 Laminar and turbulent flow, Steady and unsteady flow, 12.03.2020
6 Flow of fluids in pipes and open channels, 13.03.2020
Design of open channels for non erosive and non silting velocities,Most
7 economical cross section, 14.03.2020
Measurement of irrigation water and other water measuring devices viz.
8 weirs, notches, orifices and flumes. 15.03.2020
B Surveying and Leveling
1 Linear measurements; 16.03.2020
2 Survey methods and devices used; 17.03.2020
3 Principle of leveling, simple, differential and profile leveling; 18.03.2020
Contouring and characteristics of contour lines; Land leveling and
4 grading, earth work estimation. 19.03.2020
C Soil and Water Conservation Engineering
1 Forms of precipitation; 20.03.2020
2 Hydrologic cycle; 21.03.2020
3 Point rainfall analysis,Frequency analysis, 22.03.2020
4 Agricultural watershed and its management; 23.03.2020
Water management in agri-horti-aquaculture system, Mechanics of water
5 and wind erosion; 24.03.2020
6 Rational method of prediction of peak runoff and its limitations; 25.03.2020
7 Concept of unit hydrograph and instantaneous hydrograph; 26.03.2020
8 Factors affecting erosion and runoff; 27.03.2020
 9 Water erosion control measures – contour cultivation, 28.03.2020
10 Strip cropping,terracing, afforestation, pastures; 29.03.2020
11 Design of gully control structures – temporary and permanent; 30.03.2020
Stream bank erosion; flood routing; flood amelioration by upstream soil
12 water management; 31.03.2020
13 Wind erosion control measures and sand dunes stabilization. 01.04.2020
D Irrigation Pumps
1 Design, construction, performance characteristics, selection, installation,
servicing and maintenance of different pumps (reciprocating, centrifugal,
gear, turbine, submersible, propeller, jet); 02.04.2020
2 Hydraulic ram; 03.04.2020
3 Renewable and non-renewable power sources for pumping solar pumps. 04.04.2020
E Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
1 Water wealth and irrigation in India; Soil water plant relationship; 05.04.2020
2 Forms and occurrence of soil water; 06.04.2020
Methods and devices for soil moisture measurement; Water requirement
3 of crops; 07.04.2020
Irrigation scheduling; irrigation methods – their hydraulics and design
4 flood, 08.04.2020
5 Border, furrow, sprinkler and drip irrigation, 09.04.2020
6 Concept of irrigation efficiencies; Water conveyance and control; 10.04.2020
7 Design of canals.Lacey and Kennedy's theories. 11.04.2020
8 Drainage needs and its benefits; 12.04.2020
9 Darcy's Law, hydraulic conductivity; 13.04.2020
Drainage coefficient;drainage methods,surface drainage (drainage of flat
10 and sloping lands); 14.04.2020
11 Design of open ditches their alignment and construction; 15.04.2020
12 Designs and layout of subsurface drains; 16.04.2020
13 Depth and spacing of drains and drainage outlets; 17.04.2020
14 Drainage of salt affected areas.Installation of drains and drainage wells; 18.04.2020
F Ground Water Hydrology and Tube well Engineering
1 Occurrence and movement of ground water, 19.04.2020
2 Steady and transient flow into wells, Well interference, well drilling, 20.04.2020
Design of well assembly and gravel pack, installation of well screen,
3 Completion and development of wells. 21.04.2020
G Rural Engineering
1 Building materials and their properties; 22.04.2020
2 Farm stead planning, and design of dairy barns; 23.04.2020
3 Poultry, goat-sheep, and piggery housing; 24.04.2020
Selection of site, planning and design of rural houses, farm roads, village
4 drainage; 25.04.2020
Waste disposal and sanitary structures; cost estimates, green house
5 construction. 26.04.2020