Agriculture Engineering Syllabus for Indian Forest Service Examination (IFS)
Soil and Water Conservation: Definition and scope of soil conservation; Mechanics and types of erosion, their causes; Hydrologic cycle, rainfall and runoff-factors affecting them and their measurements, stream gauging-Evaluation of runoff from rainfall. Erosion control measures-Biological and Engineering.
Basic open channel hydraulics, Design of soil conservation, structures-terraces, bunds, outlets and grassed waterways. Principles of flood control. Flood routing. Design of farm ponds and earth dams. Stream bank erosion and its control. Wind erosion and its control. Principles of watershed management.
Investigation and Planning in River Valley Projects.
Irrigation and Drainage: Soil-water-plant relationships. Sources and types of irrigation. Planning and design of minor, irrigation projects. Techniques of measuring soil moisture.
Duty of water-consumptive use. Water requirements of crops. Measurements and cost of irrigation water. Measuring devices-flow through orifices, weirs and flumes. Leveling and layout of irrigation systems. Design and construction of canals, field channels, pipelines, head-gates, diversion boxes structures and road crossing. Occurrence of ground water. Hydraulics of wells. Types of wells, their construction, drilling methods. Well development. Testing of wells.
Drainage-Definition-causes of water logging. Methods of drainage. Drainage of irrigated lands. Design of surface and sub-surface systems.
Building Materials: Kinds of building materials-their properties, Timber, brickwork and R.C. construction, design of columns, beams, roof trusses, joints. Layout of a farm stead. Design of farm houses, animal shelters and storage structures. Rural water supply and sanitation.
Farm power and Machinery: Construction of different types of internal combustion engines. ignition, fuel lubricating, cooling and governing systems of IC engines. Different types of tractors. Chassis transmission and steering. Farm machinery for primary and secondary tillage, seeding machinery, interculture tools and machinery. Plant protection equipment. Harvesting and threshing equipment. Machinery for land development. Pumps and pumping machinery.
Electricity and rural Electrification: Power generation and transmission. Distribution of electricity for rural electrification: AC and DC circuits.
Uses of electric energy on the farm. Electric motors used in agriculture-types, selection, installation and maintenance.
