The present book “Objective Agronomy” is a compilation work and embodies a fairly comprehensive treatment of the objective type questions on Agronomy. It contains 18 chapters covering all related disciplines. These chapters include : Introduction, Agricultural Meteorology, Soil Properties and Tillage, Soil and Nutrients Management, Irrigation Water Management, Soil and Water Conservation, Manures and Fertilizers, Cropping Systems, Weed Management, Dryland Management, Cereal Crop Production, Pulse Crop Production, Oil Seed Crop Production, Tuber Crop Production, Sugar Crop Production, Jute and Allied Fibres, Forage Crop Production and Plantation Crop Production. This book consists of chapter wise objective type questions like Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blanks and True/False. This book is primarily intended to serve as ready reference for those appearing in competitive examinations like undergraduate, post-graduate, SAUs Entrance, Ph.D, JRF, SRF, ARS, ICAR-NET, SET, Agricultural Officers, Bank P.O. (Agriculture) and allied Examinations. I believe that this book will be also useful for fellow teachers, researchers and development officers for references and easy answering of many complicated questions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.B. Singh
Dr. B.B. Singh, Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural Communication of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (Uttaranchal), the editor of this manuscript has long professional experience of more than 30 years in the field of agricultural communication and extension. He is specialized in different positions of challenges and responsibilities. Presently he is also working as Joint Director, Communication in the university. He is also the Chief Editor of two monthly farm magazines of national repute i.e. Kisan Bharti in Hindi and Indian Farmers Digest in English being published from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. He has been the organizer of various training programmes and seminars. As teachers he has taught more than 15 courses to undergraduate, post graduate and Ph.D. Classes. So far, 9 Ph.D. and 11 M.Sc. Students have completed their degrees under his wise and intelligent supervision. As a researcher, he has handled 2 outside funded research projects under different capacity. He has been trained in USA and Philippines. Dr. Singh is associated with several professional bodies and societies. So far, he has more than 50 publications to his credit.
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