Farm technology, mechanisation and extension
Whole chapter · 16–24 focused hours
Farm technology, mechanisation and extension
First systematic UPSC preparation after basic Indian crop geography and introductory economic concepts; no agricultural degree assumed.
Includes
- Assigned sections and concise recall notes
- Available mapped practice and analysis of mistakes
- One initial closed-book review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revision
- Full mock papers
- Crop-distribution maps and physical soil/water processes assigned in Geography
- General rural-credit theory assigned in Economy
- Professional agronomy or veterinary treatment training
- Memorising annual scheme outlays and beneficiary totals
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Digital agriculture services
- Technology for crop-loss assessment
- Production missions
- Extension connects research, advice and farmer experience
Whole chapter reading
- Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Annual Report 2025–26 ↗
Section 21.1 and opening of 21.2, printed p. 236 (PDF p. 240): timeliness, drudgery, scale constraints and custom hiring; omit power-density figures and subsidy rates.
- Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Annual Report 2025–26 ↗
Sections 4.3–4.5, printed pp. 32–33 and 38–39: registries, interoperability, monitoring and soil mapping; distinguish planned modules from delivery.
- Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Annual Report 2025–26 ↗
Section 11.5 A–C, printed pp. 164–165: claim processing, blended yield estimation and weather observations; omit counts.
- Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Annual Report 2025–26 ↗
Sections 19.1, 19.2.1 and 19.2.4, printed pp. 218–219 and 222: extension functions, ATMA and assisted queries.
- Parliamentary reply on Krishi Vigyan Kendras ↗
Answer (a), first paragraph, PDF p. 1: testing, demonstrations and training; omit counts and annexure.
- Standard Operating Procedure for Agrometeorological Advisory Services ↗
Section 1 opening, section 1.3, sections 2.1.6–2.1.8, section 3 and section 7.1–7.2, printed pp. 1–2, 4, 6 and 10; omit historical network counts and rollout schedules.
- Digital technologies in agriculture and rural areas: Briefing paper ↗
Sections 1.2–1.3 and 2.2 opening, printed pp. 2 and 4; section 3.1 opening, p. 7; section 4 precision-agriculture paragraphs, p. 12. Exclude dated statistics, commercial case boxes and causal impact claims.
- Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Annual Report 2025–26 ↗
Sections 7.1–7.2, printed p. 82; 8.3 purpose/support design, p. 86; 8.4 opening and 8.4.1 intervention categories, pp. 87–88; 23.1 strategy and 23.2–23.3 categories, p. 303. Exclude quantities, funding rates, automatic outcomes and planned work presented as completed.