Haryana A D O 2025 Syllabus

📘 Haryana ADO Exam Syllabus 2025

🌿Unit (a): Ecology & Environment

Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, their sustainable management and conservation. Physical and social environment as factors of crop distribution and production. Agro ecology; cropping pattern as indicators of environments. Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals and humans. Climate change-International conventions and global initiatives. Greenhouse effect and global warming. Advanced tools for ecosystem analysis-Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

📚 Recommended Books: Principles of Agronomy – S. R. Reddy, Sure Shot of Agriculture – R. S. Maitry

🌾Unit (b): Cropping Patterns & Farming Systems

Cropping patterns in different agro-climatic zones of the country. Impact of high yielding and short-duration varieties on shifts in cropping patterns. Concepts of various cropping, and farming systems. Organic and Precision farming. Package of practices for production of important cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fibres, sugar, commercial and fodder crops.

📚 Recommended Books: Brief Book of Agriculture – R. S. Maitry, Fundamentals of Agronomy – R. S. Bana

🌲Unit (c): Forestry & Agroforestry

Important features, and scope of various types of forestry plantations such as social forestry, agroforestry, and natural forests: Propagation of forest plants. Forest products. Agro-forestry and value addition. Conservation of forest flora and fauna.

📚 Recommended Books: Smart Book of Agriculture – R. S. Maitry, Principles of Agronomy – S. R. Reddy

🌱Unit (d): Weed Science

Weeds, their characteristics, dissemination and association with various crops; their multiplications; cultural, biological, and chemical control of weeds.

📚 Recommended Books: Brief Book of Agriculture – R. S. Maitry, Principles of Agronomy – S. R. Reddy