This book has been designed to provide comprehensive coverage of the agriculture discipline, with a focus on five key areas: Soil Science, Entomology, Agronomy, Horticulture, and Agriculture. The book is intended to serve as a valuable resource for students, teachers, researchers, extension workers, and development officers, as it provides recent information and developments in the field of agriculture. The chapters have been organized to cover the course contents of competitive examinations, such as IAS, IFS, ARS, and PCS, as well as banking services and various state and national level competitions in agricultural subjects. The language used in the book is clear and simple, ensuring that the content is easily accessible to readers. The book includes one-liner questions that are arranged sequentially to facilitate a better understanding of the topics covered.

Ms. Kawaljeet Kaur is working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, CT Group of Institutions, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Since 2019 teaching undergraduate students. She obtained B.Sc. Hons. Agriculture (2017) with first class and completed M.Sc. Soil Science and agriculture chemistry in the year 2019 with first class as well from lovely professional university. Also she got young scientist award and young soil scientist award in the year 2021. She has attended National and International level conference and also attended National and International webinars, workshops, and online quiz, certification programmers. She has published many research papers and review papers in reputed journals, popular articles, book chapters and many books.

Mr. Anupam Singh is Ph.D scholar (Horticulture) Department of Agriculture, IIAST, Integral University, Lucknow. He has completed B.Sc. Agriculture (2014) with first division from VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur and completed M.Sc. (Ag) Horticulture in the year of 2017 with first division from ANDUA&T Ayodhya. Mr. Singh is qualified ICAR - NET in Fruit Science in 2018. He has attended more than 10 National and International level conference and also attended more than 12 National and International webinars, workshop and training.  He has published  research papers and review papers in reputed journals and  popular articles Hindi and English both and book chapters also.Mr. Singh has got Young Scientist Award 2019 by ATDS society Ghaziabad.

Hina Upadhyay is an Associate Professor at Lovely Professional University in Punjab, India, where she works in the Department of Agronomy, School of Agriculture. She was formerly an Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Sciences at Boston College and Jiwaji University in Gwalior. From 1996 to 1998, she worked as a project fellow at Jiwaji University’s Aerobiology Laboratory, S.O.S Botany. Among other scientific societies and organizations, she is a member of the Association of Microbiologists of India, a Fellow of the Society of Bionaturalists, a Life Member of the Indian Botanical Society, and a Life Member of the Indian Science Congress. At a variety of international and national seminars, symposia, and conferences, Dr. Hina chaired technical sessions and presented papers. In addition, from 2010 to 2013, she was a member of the Board of Studies in Botany at Jiwaji University in Gwalior, and from 2019 to 2020, she was a sectional member of the Indian Science Congress’s Agricultural Section. She has published 45 peer-reviewed research and review papers, as well as 7 book chapters with Springer International Publishing and Elsevier Science Publishing. Her current research area includes agroecosystem sustainability.

Subhash Chand presently working as a Professor in the Division of Soil Science, Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar Campus, Srinagar, UT of Jammu and Kashmir. He has 17 years experience of research, teaching and extension. Prof. (Dr.) Subhash Chand, Co-chaired two technical session at International Conferences at Jaipur and Pantnagar. He is member of several scientific societies. He is elected member of Association of Soil and Water Conservationist, Dehradun for 22-23. He was councillor for Indian Society of soil survey and Land use planning. Nagpur for 2014-15. Dr. Chand presented paper at Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany in 2010. He published research and review paper in National and International Journal of repute.

1. Important Facts of Agriculture, 2. Agronomy, 3. Soil Science, 4. Entomology, 5. Horticulture, 6. Agriculture Terminology