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A curated starter kit — books, official portals, free notes, videos and mock-test platforms. You don't need all of them; pick one good source per area and go deep.

⚠️ Verify before you buy

Names below are popular, widely-used references — but editions, links and channel quality change. Always check for the latest edition and confirm a resource still matches the current syllabus before spending money.

Books · Pillar 1

Agriculture — core references

📗 One-book overviews

Agriculture at a Glance — R.K. Sharma (the classic all-in-one agri exam book)
A Competitive Book of Agriculture — Nem Raj Sunda
Objective Agriculture (any reputable MCQ compilation) for practice

📘 Subject deep-dives (as needed)

Fundamentals of Agronomy — Reddy & Reddy
Principles of Genetics & Plant Breeding — B.D. Singh
Your own semester textbooks — already aligned to ICAR syllabus

Tip: don't over-buy. Your degree notes + one overview book + one MCQ book cover most of the agriculture paper.

Books · Pillar 2

General studies — standard references

🧮 Quant

Quantitative Aptitude — R.S. Aggarwal
Data Interpretation — Arun Sharma

🧩 Reasoning

Verbal & Non-Verbal — R.S. Aggarwal
Analytical Reasoning — M.K. Pandey

📖 English

Objective General English — S.P. Bakshi
Word Power Made Easy — Norman Lewis

🌐 GK / GA

Lucent's General Knowledge
A monthly current-affairs magazine

Free & official

Free notes and official portals

🆓 Free study material

TNAU Agritech Portal — free, detailed agriculture notes
ICAR e-Krishi Shiksha / eCourses — official course content
AgriExam.com & similar — agri MCQs and PYQs
PIB & Ministry of Agriculture site — schemes & current affairs

🏛️ Official recruitment portals — bookmark these

IBPS (AFO, RRB, PO)	ibps.in
NABARD	nabard.org
FCI	fci.gov.in
UPSSSC (UP Group C)	upsssc.gov.in
UPPSC	uppsc.up.nic.in
SSC	ssc.gov.in
FSSAI	fssai.gov.in
UPSC (CSE, IFoS)	upsc.gov.in
ICAR / ASRB	icar.org.in · asrb.org.in

🔔 Never miss a notification

Check the IBPS and UPSSSC/UPPSC sites at least weekly in 2027–2028, and turn on alerts from a couple of trusted exam-news channels. A missed application window is the most avoidable failure there is.

Video & mocks

YouTube channels & test-series platforms

▶️ YouTube (search & sample)

Search "IBPS AFO preparation" and "agriculture competitive exam" — pick one channel you find clear and stick with it
Channels focused on AFO / NABARD / ICAR-JRF agriculture for subject revision
Dedicated banking aptitude channels for quant & reasoning shortcuts
A daily current-affairs channel (10–15 min episodes)

Quality varies — judge by clarity and syllabus-match, not subscriber count.

🧪 Test-series platforms

Adda247, Oliveboard, PracticeMock, Testbook — AFO, RRB, PO & SSC series
Buy a series only once you've built basics (Phase 2 onward)
Prioritise full-length mocks + solutions over endless topic quizzes
Always download & solve official previous-year papers first — they're free and gold

Daily inputs

Your daily current-affairs stack

📰

One newspaper

The Hindu / Indian Express (English) or Dainik Jagran (Hindi) — read editorial + national + economy.

🌾

Agri news

Ministry of Agriculture / PIB releases, Krishi Jagran — track schemes, MSP & policy.

🗒️

One-page note

Summarise the day in your own words. Revise these weekly and monthly before exams.

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