Certified Agriculturist - Cultivation of vegetables

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  1. 1. Select Certification & Register
  2. 2. Receive a.) Online e Learning Access (LMS)    b.) Hard copy - study material
  3. 3. Take exam online anywhere, anytime
  4. 4. Get certified & Increase Employability

Test Details

  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • No. of questions: 50
  • Maximum marks: 50, Passing marks: 25 (50%).
  • There is NO negative marking in this module.
  • Online exam.

Benefits of Certification

$49.00 /-
 
TABLE OF CONTENT


Vskills has developed a new strategic framework for Skill Development for early school leavers and existing workers, especially in the unorganized sector to improve their employability called Trade Employable Skills (TES).

Trade Employable Skills does effective assessment and certification of candidates in different trade disciplines like Electrical, Electronics, Agriculture, Chemical, Automobile, IT, etc to make them job ready.

Why should one take this certification?

To demonstrate clear understanding and practical aspects and to get a visible recognition for this knowledge.

Table of Content

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Practice Test

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Companies that hire Agriculturist - Cultivation of vegetables

All small and medium companies need certified employees who have the requisite skills. There are more jobs opening up in the economy on a regular basis with the fast growth of the country.

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TABLE OF CONTENT


Maintain store tools, equipments and clothing safety

  • TRACTOR
  • DICS HARROW
  • Classification
  • Method of attachment
  • Arrangement of gangs
  • Single action
  • Double action (or) tandem
  • Offset
  • Disc blades
  • Gang
  • Bearings
  • Main frame
  • Care and maintenance
  • CULTIVATOR
  • Uses
  • Classification
  • Tractor drawn cultivator (Spring type)
  • Care and maintenance
  • LASER LEVELLER
  • Benefits
  • Operation
  • BUND FORMER
  • Adjustments
  • Operation
  • Care and maintenance
  • Seed Drill
  • Vegetable transplanter
  • Care and maintenance
  • Centrifugal Pump
  • Components of centrifugal pump
  • Impeller
  • Open impeller
  • Semi-open impellers
  • Closed impeller
  • Casing
  • Shaft
  • Stuffing Box
  • Bearings
  • Couplings
  • Knapsack Sprayer
  • Power Sprayer
  • Rotary Duster
  • Ridger
  • Power Weeder
  • Care and maintenance
  • Power Tiller
  • Care and maintenance
  • Seed Extractor
  • Care and maintenance

Tractor Driving

  • Safety precaution for tractor maintenance
  • Engine
  • Gear box
  • Clutches
  • Function of cultch
  • Brake
  • Steering
  • Tyres
  • Fuel supply System in Diesel Engine
  • Water cooling
  • Selection of soil, climate, varieties and scope of vegetables cultivation
  • Scope of vegetable cultivation
  • Major vegetables grown in India
  • Based on cultural requirement
  • Steps involved in the collection of soil samples collecting of soil sample
  • Collecting procedure
  • Soil testing
  • Physical properties
  • Chemical properties

Equipments to prepare seed bed

  • BED PREPARTION IMPLEMENTS
  • Mould board plough
  • Uses
  • Constructional features
  • Share
  • Material for share
  • Cast Iron
  • Chilled cast iron
  • Soft center steel
  • Solid steel
  • Slip share
  • Slip nose share
  • Shine share
  • Bar point share
  • Mould Board
  • General purpose
  • Black land
  • Sod or Breaker
  • High speed mould board
  • Land side
  • Frog
  • Plough accessories
  • Frame and beam
  • Cross shaft
  • Coulter
  • Jointer
  • Wheel
  • Operation of mould board plough
  • Steps
  • Methods of ploughing
  • Gathering
  • Casting
  • Care and maintenance
  • Disc Harrow
  • Classification
  • Arrangement of gangs
  • Single action
  • Double action (or)  tandem
  • Offset
  • Components of disc harrow
  • Disc blades
  • Bearings
  • Main frame
  • Operation procedure
  • Spike Tooth Harrow
  • Adjustments
  • Care and maintenance
  • CULTIVTOR
  • Uses
  • Classification
  • Tractor drawn cultivator
  • Care and maintenance
  • Laser Leveller
  • Benefits
  • Operation
  • BUND FORMER
  • Adjustments
  • Operation
  • Care and maintenance
  • RIDGER
  • Uses
  • Components
  • Operation procedure
  • Care and maintenance

Operation and calibration of seed drills, transplanter and methods of sowing

  • Seed Drill
  • Types of seed drills
  • Centrifugal seed drill
  • Pneumatic seed drill Cell wheel precision seeder
  • Rubber belt precision seeder
  • Operation of seed drill
  • Adjustments
  • Care and maintenance
  • Transplanter
  • Adjustments
  • Methods of sowing
  • Broadcasting
  • Drilling
  • Dibbing
  • Bandsowing

Fertilizer Applicator

  • Fertilizer metering meachanism
  • Serrated Disc
  • Star Wheel
  • Seed/Fertilizer dropping Unit
  • Spiral Tubes
  • Polythene or rubber tubes
  • Funnel shaped tubes
  • Telescopic tubes
  • Furrow opening unit
  • Hoe Types
  • Shoe Type
  • Single Disc Opener
  • Double Disc Opener
  • Chisel Openers
  • Indexing devices
  • Power transmission mechanism
  • Operation procedure
  • Calibration of fertilizer applicator
  • Care and maintenance of fertilizer

Intercultural operation

  • Weeding
  • Advantages of weeding
  • Peg type weeder
  • Adjustment
  • Star type
  • Step in weeding
  • Power weeder
  • Operation procedure
  • Calibration
  • Care and maintenance
  • Earthing up
  • Earthing up implements
  • Constructional features 
  • Material for share
  • Child cast iron
  • Soft centre steel
  • Solid steel
  • Types of share
  • Slip share
  • Slip nose share
  • Shin share
  • Bar point share
  • Mould board
  • General purpose
  • Black land
  • Sod or breaker
  • High speed mould board
  • Land side
  • Frog
  • Plough accessories
  • Frame and beam
  • Cross shaft
  • Coulter
  • Jointer
  • Wheel
  • Operation of mould board plough steps
  • Care and maintenance
  • Spade
  • Care and maintenance
  • Ridger
  • Cultivation of vegetable
  • Drip irrigation
  • Structure of drip system
  • Components
  • Components of drip irrigation unit(Fig 1)
  • Pumping station
  • Filtering unit
  • Media filter
  • Screen filter
  • Disc filter
  • Centrifugal filter
  • Chemical injection equipment
  • On line Emitters
  • Main pipe
  • Laterals
  • Installation and lay out of drip irrigation
  • Installation of filter station
  • Connecting main and sub main
  • Laying of laterals and fixing emitters
  • Commissioning of the system
  • Care and maintenance
  • General maintenance
  • Media filter
  • Screen filter
  • Sub main and lateral flushing
  • Chemical treatment
  • Acid treatment
  • Procedure for acid treatment
  • Precautions
  • Sprinkler irrigation system
  • Components of sprinkler irrigation
  • Coupling
  • Risers
  • Rotary sprikkler
  • Perforated pipes
  • 1. installation of filter station
  • 2. Connecting main and sub- main
  • 3. Laying if laterals and fixing emitters
  • Commissioning of the system
  • Pump prime moves
  • Perform care and maintenance
  • WATER REQUIREMENT AND MOISTURE CONSERVATION TECHNIQUE
  • Shallow rooted crops
  • Moderately deep rooted crops
  • Moisture conversation
  • Mulching
  • Tillage
  • Recycling of waste water
  • Use of micro-irrigation system
  • Construction of mechanical structure

Safe operation, maintenance, adjustment and calibration of plant protection equipments

  • Sprayers
  • Types of sprayers
  • Tractor mounted band sprayer
  • Engine operated knack sack duster/sprayer
  • Tractor mounted duster
  • Hand-operated bellows duster
  • Hand-operated knapsack fan duster
  • Rotary duster
  • Preparation of spray solution
  • Calibration of sprayer
  • Methods of calibration
  • Manually operated hydraulic energy sprayer
  • Definite swath width sprayer
  • Calibration of dusters
  • Safety precautions
  • Care and maintenance for sprayers
  • Care and maintenance of dusters

Harvesting of vegetables by manually/mechanically

  • Stat the harvesting time of vegetables
  • Onion digger
  • Calibration of digger
  • Care and maintenance of digger
  • Root harvester
  • Topping mechanisms
  • Lifting mechanism
  • Operation of a root harvester
  • Maintenance of root harvesting machinery
  • Storage

Packaging and storing

  • Packaging
  • Considerations for packaging
  • Packaging containers
  • Wooden boxes and corrugated fibre board
  • Storage of vegetables
  • Steps followed after the vegetables are harvested
  • Storage phases
  • Equalization or drying phase
  • Wound healing, pre-conditioning phase
  • Cooling phase
  • Holding phase
  • Reconditioning phase
  • Qualities of good storage
  • Preparing the cold store
  • Steps
  • Wooden tonnage
  • Cooling unit
  • Store room
  • Precooling
  • Refrigerated storage

Cost of cultivation and marketing

  • Marketing of vegetables
  • Disposal of vegetables in short time
  • Channels of vegetables marketing
  • Selling vegetables to retailers
  • Mandies
  • Selling at the farm
  • Auction market
  • Selling vegetables to wholesaler
  • Selling vegetables to cooperatives
  • Selling of vegetables to consumers
  • House to house selling
  • Road side selling
  • Selling vegetables to small markets
  • Selling vegetables in weekly bazaars
  • Marketing yards
  • Export and import market
  • Export standards
  • Packaging is designed to
  • Processing market
  • Tomato, brinjal, chillies, onion
  • Methods of marketing of vegetables
  • Private negotiation open auction under cover

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