Domain paper 302

CUET Agriculture

CUET Agriculture (paper 302) has four units: agrometeorology with genetics and supporting sciences, livestock production, crop production, and horticulture. There is no NCERT Agriculture textbook, so study from the official outline and a senior-secondary agriculture reference, and use NCERT Biology for cells and heredity. Crop production is the largest unit and covers soils, fertilisers, irrigation, weeds and twelve named crops. Questions favour facts you can pin down: breed origins, disease symptoms, fertiliser doses, critical irrigation stages, propagation methods and genetic ratios. Learn each named crop's key practices.

4 units
50 questions · 60 min
+5 / −1 marking
No NCERT Agriculture textbook · NTA outline, with NCERT Biology for genetics
30,414 appeared in 2026

What to study in each unit

Based on the official NTA 2026 syllabus, mapped to skill areas.

Unit	What to study	Skill area
Unit 1: Agrometeorology, genetics and supporting sciences	Weather elements (rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind, sunshine), forecasting, climate classification and the Indian monsoon Cell structure; mitosis and meiosis; chromosomes, DNA and RNA (NCERT Biology XI Ch 8, 10) Mendel's laws, monohybrid 3:1 and dihybrid 9:3:3:1 ratios, reasons for his success, qualitative versus quantitative (polygenic) inheritance (NCERT Biology XII Ch 4) Plant breeding: introduction, selection, hybridisation, mutation, polyploidy, tissue culture and biotechnology in self- and cross-pollinated crops pH and buffers; carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, enzymes; microbes in fermentation, decomposition and soil Monocot versus dicot seeds, pollination, fertilisation, seed dormancy and seed types Dihybrid ratio Polyploidy Southwest monsoon Seed dormancy	Agrometeorology, genetics and biochemistry
Unit 2: Livestock production	White Revolution and Operation Flood; livestock in the farm economy Indian and exotic breeds of cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep and poultry (Gir, Sahiwal, Murrah, Jamunapari, Aseel, Holstein Friesian, Jersey) Housing systems, principles of feeding, balanced ration; care of calves, pregnant and milch animals, chicks and layers Diseases: rinderpest, black quarter, foot-and-mouth, mastitis, haemorrhagic septicaemia, coccidiosis, fowl pox, Ranikhet Semen collection, dilution and preservation; artificial insemination; milk processing; fish, fisheries and aquaculture Murrah Foot-and-mouth disease Artificial insemination Balanced ration	Livestock and fisheries
Unit 3: Crop production	Food-grain production since 1950, sustainable and commercial agriculture; classifying crops as cereals, pulses, oilseeds, fibre, sugar and forage Soil pH, texture, structure, tilth, fertility; essential nutrients and deficiency symptoms; soil types of India; soil testing Manures, straight and complex fertilisers, biofertilisers, integrated nutrient management; problem soils (lime for acid, gypsum for sodic) and erosion Irrigation sources, scheduling at critical stages, crop water need, surface, sprinkler and drip methods, drainage, watersheds and water quality Weed control methods; package of practices for rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, groundnut, mustard, pigeon pea, gram, sugarcane, cotton, berseem; IPM and millets Conservation, precision, natural and organic farming; remote sensing Integrated nutrient management Critical growth stage Drip irrigation IPM	Agronomy and soil science
Unit 4: Horticulture	Nutritional value of fruits and vegetables; diversification and the processing industry Orchard site and layout systems (square, rectangular, triangular, hexagonal, quincunx); ornamental and kitchen gardens Training, pruning, intercropping, and protecting trees from frost and sunburn Propagation by seed, cutting, layering, budding and grafting, with typical crops for each Cultivation of mango, papaya, banana, guava, citrus, grapes; nine named vegetables; gladiolus, canna, chrysanthemum, rose, marigold Preservation principles; making jam, jelly, ketchup and chips; packing Grafting Suckers Sheet test Quincunx	Horticulture

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Official reference: NTA CUET UG 2026 Agriculture syllabus (paper 302, Agriculture) · Checked 4 Nov 2026 · Read the official PDF (opens in a new tab) · Study notes draw on: NTA CUET (UG) 2026 syllabus: Agriculture (302) (opens in a new tab), NCERT Class 12 Biology, Ch 4 Principles of Inheritance and Variation (reprint 2026-27) (opens in a new tab), NCERT Class 11 Biology, Ch 8 Cell and Ch 10 Cell Cycle and Cell Division (reprint 2026-27) (opens in a new tab). This is the 2026 syllabus, not a confirmed 2027 syllabus.