Social Sciences

Complete ICAR AIEEA PG Social Sciences syllabus covering Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Extension Education.

ICAR AIEEA PG Social Sciences Syllabus

Sub-Subjects: Agricultural Economics and Agriculture Extension Education.

UNIT-I

Agriculture and crop production; soils and NPK; cell biology and genetics; plant physiology; biomolecules; pests and diseases; rural development; agricultural research and extension; statistics including measures of central tendency, dispersion, regression, correlation, probability, sampling and tests of significance.

UNIT-II

Consumer behaviour; demand; elasticity; indifference curve analysis; theory of firm; cost and supply; price determination; markets; macroeconomics; money and banking; national income; agricultural marketing; capital and credit; crop insurance; cooperatives; capital formation; agrarian reforms; globalization and WTO.

UNIT-III

Farm management; farming systems; agricultural production economics; factor-product relationships; marginal cost and revenue; farm planning and budgeting; agricultural finance; time value of money; compounding and discounting; agricultural credit; credit analysis; repayment plans; financing agriculture; commercial banks, RRBs, RBI, NABARD and other financing agencies.

UNIT-IV

Extension education: concept, meaning, principles, philosophy, scope and importance; programme planning and evaluation; extension models; extension development in USA, Japan and India; rural development; extension teaching methods; sociology; rural and urban communities; social stratification and groups; social organization and change; leadership; educational psychology; rural systems and adult education.

UNIT-V

Communication principles and process; communication barriers; teaching methods; media and audio-visual aids; media mix; campaigns; cyber extension; internet; Kisan Call Centres; teleconferencing; agricultural journalism; diffusion and adoption of innovations; capacity building and training of farmers, women and rural youth.