List of Books for ICAR- Competitive Exams

S. No. Title Author (s)

AGRONOMY
1. Principles of Agronomy Reddy and Reddy
2. Principles of Agronomy S.R. Reddy
3. Textbook of Crop Production Rajendra Prasad
4. Weed T.K. Das
5. Agronomy Terminology Indian Society of Agronomy
6. Irrigation Agronomy S.R. reddy
7. Crop Nutrition Rajendra Prasad
8. Soil Science V. N. Sahay
9. Objective Agronomy Thavaprakash
10. Objective Agronomy Vishvakarma
11. Objective Agronomy P.L. Malival
12. Treatise Agronomy -
SOIL SCIENCE
1. Fundamental of soil science ISSS
2. Text book of soil science T D Biswas and mukherjee
3. Soil Science An introduction ISSS
4. Soil Physics A K Shah
5. Soil Pedology J S Shehgal
6. Soil Fertility and Fertilizers Tisdale Nelson
7. Soil Plant Water Analysis Manual Dhyan Singh
8. Introduction to soil science D K Das
9. Soil fertilizer and nutrient RK Basak
HORTICULTURE
1. Handbook of Horticulture K. L. Chadha
2. Basic Horticulture Jitender Singh
3. Basic Horticulture K V Peter
4. Production Technology of Vegetable Crops Fageria and B R Chaudhary
5. Fruit Ranjit Singh
6. Text book of Vegetable, Spices and Tuber crops Thanburaj and Narendra Singh
7. Fruit Growing J S wall
8. Treasure of Fruit Science Sunil Kumar & Ashok Yadav
9. Plantation, Spices, Medicinal and Aromatic Crops N Kumar
10. Fruit and Vegetable Preservation: Principles and Sanjeev Kumar and RP
Practices Srivastav
11. Post-Harvest Technology Udal Singh Meena
12. Floriculture at a glance Desh Raj
13. Ornamental Horticulture J S Arora
14. Floriculture In India Randhawa
15. Vegetable Science And Technology In India Vishnu Swarup
16. Instant Horticulture S N Gupta
17. Glaustas Horticulture Muthukumar
18. MCQs Bharat Singh Hadda
19. Mission Horticulture
20. Handbook of Vegetable Crops M.S. Dhaliwal
21. Vegetable Science D. Singh
22. Textbook on Pomology vol I to vol IV T.K. Chattopadhyay
23. Objective Floriculture and Landscaping Desh Raj
24. Salaria & Salria
A2Z Solutions Horticulture at a glance Vol.I to Vol
III
25. Objectives of Horticulture Ajit Singh Salaria and Babita
Salaria
ENTOMOLOGY
1. Insect, The stucture and Function R.F Chapman
2. Insect Physiology J.L Nation
3. Physiological system of insect Klowden
4. IPM Dhaliwal and arora
5. Principal of IPM Metcalf and Lukemann
6. Toxicology Shrivastava
7. Insecticide action and metabolism OBrine
8. Inseticide and environment Perry and Perry
9. IPM Yazdhani and Agarwal
10. Larry Pedigo
11. Insect anatomy and physiology N.C pant and Ghai
12. Applied Entomology D.S. Reddy
13. Elements of Economy Entomology Vasanth Raj David
14. Vol. 1 and 2 K.P. Shrivastava
15. Entomology at a glance (Vol. 1 n 2) Srinivasan
16. 1st ,2nd and 3rd year notes ANGRAU
17. T.V. Prasad
18. An Outline of Entomology
19. Sarvan and Haldar
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
1. Biotechnology- expanding horizon BD Singh
2. Plant Biotechnology Slater
3. Principles of Biochemistry Lehlinger
4. Plant Physiology VK Jain/ Pandey and Sinha
5. Pathfinder's life science part 1&2
6. Gene Cloning T.A. Brown
7. Principles of Gene Manipulation and Genomics Primerose
8. Instant Biotechnology Sandeep Jaiswal
9. Competitive Biotechnology Sudhir Kumar Jha
10. Quick notes, molecular biology
PLANT SCIENCE
1. Introduction to Principles of Plant Pathology R. S. Singh
2. Diseases of crop plants in India G. Rangaswami & A.
Mahadevan
3. Modern Plant Pathology H. C. Dube
4. Plant pathology D. Alice & C. Jeyalakshmi
5. Plant Pathology A competitive vision Satvinder Kaur Man, Prem Lal
Kashyap & Santosh Singh Kang
6. Plant Pathology at A Glance Utpal Kumar Bhattacharyya
7. Plant Pathology at a glance P. Srinivas
8. Textbook of Pant Pathology Saha
9. Competitive Vision of Plant Pathology Kaur, Mann
10. Plant Breeding: Principles and Methods B. D. Singh and Pundhan Singh
11. Fundamentals of Genetics B. D. Singh and Pundhan Singh
12. Objective Genetics B.K. Prasad & B.D. Singh
13. Objective Plant Breeding B.K. Prasad & B.D. Singh
14. Fungi, Bacteria and Virus H.C. Dubey
15. Introductory Microbiology Tauro and Kapoor
16. Seed Technology Agarwal
17. Objectives of Seed Science Sai Prasad
18. Objectives of Seed Science Ranganayaki
19. Plant Science at A Glance Ajit Kumar Singh

SOCIAL SCIENCES
1. Agricultural Economics Subba Reddy, Bhavani Devi
2. Agricultural Finance and Management Subba Reddy And P. Raghuram
H.L Ahuja
3. Economics of farm production and management V. T. Raju
4. Fundamentals of farm business management Johl & Kapoor
5. Advance Economic Theory H.L. Ahuja
6. Elementary Economic Theory K.K. Dwett
7. Agricultural Marketing in India Acharya & Agarwal
8. An Introduction to Agricultural Social Sciences Subhash Chandra (Must Read)
9. Objective Agricultural Economics K.N. Ravi Kumar
10. Extension Education Adivi Reddy
11. Extension Communication and Management G.L.Ray
12. Objective Agricultural Extension V.G. Sunil
13. Objective Extension
14. Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics Gupta and Kapoor
15. B.L.Agarwal