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About ASRB NET Exam

The Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB) is the organizing body of ASRB NET (National Eligibility Test) and this examination is organized to analyze the proficiency of the candidates for the post of Lecturers / Assistant Professors. Those applicants are wishing and eligible to get this post, can appear in this examination on the basis of their eligibility criteria.

In the various State Agricultural Universities and other Agricultural Universities, this post will be provided to the candidates on the basis of their marks scored in this eligibility test. Every year many of the candidates appear in this test.

ASRB NET Exam Date

The official exam and other relevant dates for 2022 will be released in the official notification. However, based on previous years, we have provided the tentative dates.

Events	Exam Dates (Tentative)
Availability of Application Form	2nd week of February 2022
Last Date of Submission of Application Form	1st week of March 2022
Last Date of Payment	1st week of March 2022
Availability of Hall Ticket/ Admit Card	4th week of March 2022
Date of Exam	April 2022
Announcement of Result of ASRB NET Exam	To be notified

ASRB NET Eligibility

To take the ASRB NET exam, candidates must have to be eligible. The eligibility criteria for the ASRB NET Exam are as follows:

ASRB NET Eligibility: Nationality

A citizen of India
A citizen of Nepal or Bhutan
Refugees from Tibet (those who came to India before January 1st, 1962)

ASRB NET Eligibility: Age Limits

To apply for the ASRB NET exam, candidates must have to be 21 years old as of January 01, 2022
Candidates below the mentioned age are not eligible to sit for the exam
There is no upper age limit for ASRB NET candidates.

Educational Qualifications

Candidates must have passed their Master’s in the concerned field before applying for the exam.
The candidates must have passed from a recognized Indian University.
If the candidate has passed from a foreign University, it must be recognized by the Govt. of India and the degree must be equivalent to the Master's degree offered by an Indian University.

The educational qualification required for each of the programs is listed in the table below. Only the candidates having a Master’s degree in the relevant field are eligible for the mentioned programs.

Code	Programs	Required Field of Master’s Degree
1	Nematology	Plant Protection/ Entomology/ Nematology/ Plant Pathology/ Zoology/ Agriculture
2	Seed Science & Technology	Agriculture/ Seed Science and Technology/ Seed Science/ Plant Physiology
3	Genetics & Plant Breeding	Agriculture/ Agricultural Botany/ Plant Genetic Resources/ Plant Physiology
4	Agricultural Biotechnology	Biotechnology/ Plant Sciences/ Agriculture/ Genetic Engineering/ Botany/ Life Sciences/Plant Physiology Plant Biotechnology
5	Fruit Science	Agriculture or Horticulture/ Pomology/ Plant Genetic Resources/ Fruit Sciences/ Post Harvest Technology/ Horticulture
6	Plant Physiology	Agriculture/ Botany Plant Physiology
7	Spices, Plantation & Medicinal & Aromatic Plants	Master’s degree in Agriculture/ Horticulture/ Plant Genetic Resources/ Botany with specialization/ Plantation Crops/ Medicinal and Aromatic Plants/ Horticulture
8	Floriculture & Landscaping	Plant Genetic Resources/ Agriculture or Horticulture/ Floriculture and Landscaping
9	Animal Genetics & Breeding	Animal Sciences/ Veterinary with specialization in Animal Genetics and Breeding.
10	Dairy Technology	Dairy Technology/ Food Technology/ Animal Products Technology/ Dairy Technology
11	Animal Biotechnology	Master’s degree in Veterinary/ Fisheries Science/ Animal Biotechnology
12	Veterinary Medicine	Veterinary Clinical Medicine/ Veterinary Preventive Medicine/ Veterinary Medicine
13	Livestock Product Technology	Master’s degree in Animal Sciences/ Veterinary/ Livestock Products Technology
14	Veterinary Surgery	Veterinary Anatomy / Veterinary Surgery
15	Fisheries Resource Management	Fishery Sciences/ Fisheries Resource Management/ Marine Biology/ Industrial Fisheries / Fisheries Resource Management/ Hydrography/ Fish Population Dynamics/ Fishery Aquatic Ecology
16	Veterinary Public Health	Master’s degree in Veterinary Public Health/ Epidemiology
26	Agricultural Meteorology	Agricultural Physics/ Agricultural Meteorology
27	Veterinary Anatomy	Master’s degree in Veterinary Anatomy
31	Fish Processing Technology	Fishery Sciences/ Horticulture/ Industrial Fisheries/ Fish Processing Technology/ Fish Harvest and Processing.
37	Land & Water Management Engineering	Agricultural Engineering/ Water Science and Technology/ Civil Engineering & Aquatic Engineering/ Hydrology/ Soil and Water Conservation/ Irrigation and Drainage

ASRB NET Syllabus

The syllabus for all the programs of ASRB NET exam 2022 is as follows.

Subjects	Topics
Agricultural Biotechnology	Unit 1: Molecular genetics Unit 2: Biomolecules and metabolism Unit 3: Molecular biology techniques Unit 4: Cell structure and function Unit 5: Gene cloning Unit 6: Gene expressions Unit 7: Enzymology Unit 8: Plant molecular biology Unit 9: Molecular biology Unit 10: Tissue culture Unit 11: Plant genetic engineering
Economic Botany & Plant Genetic Resources	Unit 1: Plant Taxonomy and bio-system Unit 2: Germplasm augmentation Unit 3: Germplasm conservation Unit 5: Plant quarantine Unit 6: Economically important plants- I Unit 7: Economically important plants- II Unit 8: Biotechnology in PGR Unit 9: Biodiversity and plant genetic resources Unit 10: Germplasm characterization, evaluation, maintenance, and regeneration
Genetics And Plant Breeding	Unit 1: Economics botany and plant breeding methods Unit 2: Quantitative and biometrical genetics Unit 3: Genome organization and cytogenetic of crop plants Unit 4: General genetics and plant breeding Unit 5: Genetic engineering and biotechnology tools in plant breeding Unit 6: Plant breeding for stress resistance and nutritional quality Unit 7: Statistical methods and field plot techniques in plant breeding Unit 8: Plant genetic resources and their regulatory system; varietal release and seed production
Soil Science & Technology	Unit 1: Seed biology Unit 2: Seed production Unit 3: Seed health Unit 4: Seed quality control Unit 5: Seed storage Unit 6: Seed processing Unit 7: Seed industry development and marketing Unit 8: Protection of plant varieties
Floriculture & Landscaping	Unit 1: Breeding Unit 2: Production technology of cut and loose flowers Unit 4: Landscaping Unit 5: Protected floriculture Unit 6: Turfing and turf management Unit 7: Value addition Unit 8: Computer-aided designing for outdoor and indoor scraping
Spices, Plantation & Medicinal & Aromatic Plants	Unit 1: Production of plantation crops Unit 2: Production technology of spice crops Unit 3: Processing of plantation crops, spices, medicinal and aromatic plants Unit 4: Breeding of plantation crop & spice Unit 5: Breeding of medicinal and aromatics crops Unit 6: Agronomy of medicinal, aromatics, and under-utilized crops Unit 7: Organic spice and plantation crop production technology
Animal Biotechnology	Unit 1: Cell biology Unit 2: Molecular biology Unit 3: Molecular biology techniques Unit 4: Genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology in animals Unit 5: Gene structure and regulation of gene expression Unit 6: reproductive biotechnology and related techniques Unit 7: Cell culture and hybridoma technology
Dairy Microbiology	Unit 1: Bacteriological aspects of processing techniques Unit 2: Preservation of milk and milk products by physical and chemical agents Unit 3: Microbiological quality of fat-rich products Unit 4: Lactic acid bacteria as starters Unit 5: Microbiological quality of indigenous dairy products Unit 6: Role of starters in the preparation of yogurt, koumiss, kefir, cultured buttermilk and whey-based beverages, and other fermented products Unit 7: Dairy products as functional or health foods Unit 8: Preparation of byproducts from dairy effluents by microbial fermentation Unit 9: Microbiological aspects of quality control and quality assurance in the production of milk and milk products
Livestock Product Technology	Unit 1: Basic aspects of livestock products Unit 2: Processing and preservation Unit 3: Abattoir and poultry processing plants Unit 4: Wool, mohair, and fur Unit 5: Packaging Unit 6: Quality control Unit 7: Marketing
Veterinary Medicine	Unit 1: General medicine Unit 2: Gastroenterology Unit 3: Diseases of urinary, nervous, musculoskeletal, and integumentary systems Unit 4: Diseases of the cardiovascular and pulmonary system Unit 5: Diagnosis of animal diseases Unit 6: Common toxicities Unit 7: Product and deficiency diseases Unit 8: Infectious diseases (bacterial and mycoplasma and viral, fungal, etc.) Unit 9: Parasitic diseases and Poultry diseases Unit 10: Veterinary jurisprudence and ethics Unit 11: Special therapeutic approaches Unit 12: Common diseases of Zoo, laboratory animals, and wildlife Unit 13: Prevention and control of diseases
Fish Processing Technology	Unit 1: Craft technology Unit 2: Gear technology Unit 3: Process biochemistry Unit 4: Fishery engineering Unit 5: Fish processing technology Unit 6: Economics and marketing Unit 7: Microbiology, quality management, and certification
Agronomy	Unit 1: Crop ecology and geography Unit 2: Crop production in problem soils Unit 3: Crop production Unit 4: Dryland agronomy Unit 5: Agricultural statistics Unit 6: Weed management Unit 7: Soil fertility and fertilizer use Unit 8: Sustainable land-use systems Unit 9: Basics of soil and water Unit 10: Soil water and Plant water relationship Unit 11: Irrigation water management Unit 12: Management of problematic soils and water
Home Science	Unit 1: Human nutrition, health, and interventions Unit 2: Food science and processing technologies Unit 3: Human development and family dynamics Unit 4: Home science extension and communication methods Unit 5: Family resource management Unit 6: Consumer science Unit 7: Textile science, fashion designing, and garment production
Land & Water Management Engineering	Unit 1: Groundwater development, wells, and pumps Unit 2: Open channel hydraulics Unit 5: Soil, plant, water, atmosphere relationship Unit 4: Hydrology and soil and water conservation Unit 3: Irrigation water management Unit 6: Watershed management Unit 7: Management of degraded, waterlogged, etc.
Food Technology	Unit 1: Introductory food technology Unit 2: Food quality management Unit 3: Food microbiology & biotechnology Unit 4: Technology of foods of plant origin Unit 5: Technology of foods of animal origin Unit 6: Food engineering/ packaging and labeling Unit 7: Flavor chemistry technology Unit 8: Consumer sciences/ food products development/ health foods
Agricultural Chemicals	Unit 1: General chemistry Unit 2: Naturally occurring insecticides Unit 3: Chemistry of natural products Unit 4: Herbicides and plant growth regulators Unit 5: Chromatography and spectroscopic technique Unit 6: Agrochemical formulations Unit 7: Pesticides residues and dynamic in the environment Unit 8: Natural resource management Unit 9: Environmental pollution: implication & remediation Unit 11: Synthetic insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, etc. Unit 10: Data analysis
Veterinary Anatomy	Unit 1: Gross anatomy Unit 2: Microanatomy Unit 3: Organs of the digestive, respiratory, and urogenital system in fowl Unit 4: Developmental anatomy

ASRB NET Exam Pattern

The plan of the ICAR ASRB NET 2023 exam is mentioned below. The examination will be held in the online mode. And the candidates who will enrol their names for the exam, have to appear in the exam.


Sr.No.	Events	Details
1.	Mode of ICAR ASRB NET 2023	Online computer-based
2.	Nature of the exam	Objective type
3.	Maximum Marks	150
4.	Number of questions	150
5.	Duration of exam	02 hours
6.	Marking Scheme	One mark will be awarded for every correct answer
7.	Negative Marking	0.33 mark will be deducted for every wrong answer.
8.	The language of the exam	Bilingual i.e. English and Hindi

ASRB NET Cut off

The ASRB NET cutoff 2022 will be released along with the result. The cutoff is fixed by the ASRB itself. The cut off marks are different from minimum qualifying marks. Have a look at the ASRB NET qualifying marks below.

Category	Minimum Qualifying Percentage (in %)	Minimum qualifying marks
Unreserved (UR)/ EWS	50	75
OBC	45	67.5
SC / ST/ PwBD	40	60

ASRB NET How to Apply

The ASRB (Agricultural Scientist Research Board) conducts the ASRB NET or ICAR NET exam once every year. To apply for the exam candidates first have to go through the notification and then proceed to apply via online mode.

Here are the steps one must follow to apply for the ASRB NET exam 2022.

Interested candidates need to visit the official website of ASRB or ICAR, i.e., asrb.org.in.
Then click on the NET Application 2022 link.
After that, they must click on the ‘New Registration’ link and fill the registration form with their name, mobile number, and a valid e-mail Id.
After that, they will receive a registration number and password which will be directly sent to their registered e-mail Id to log in.
Then using the registration number and password, they must log in to their account.
They will then see the application form for the exam.
They should fill the application form with personal details and academic qualification details and then select their exam city.
After filling the form, they have to upload all the relevant documents.
The candidates have to proceed to the next step and make the payment for the exam.
After the submission of the application, they should download the soft copy of the application form and payment receipt for future references.

Documents Required for ASRB NET Application

Matriculation certificate or its equivalent
Master’s degree certificate and mark sheet
Doctorate degree certificate and Marksheet

ASRB NET Application Fee

The application fee is different for both unreserved and reserved categories. The fees for the different categories are provided below.

Category	Application Fee
Unreserved (UR)	INR 1000
EWS (Economically Weaker Section)	INR 500
OBC	INR 500
SC/ ST/ Women/ PwBD/ PWD	INR 250