REFERENCE BOOKS FOR INDIAN FOREST SERVICE EXAMINATION..FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE OPTIONALS

IFS REFERENCE BOOKS
FORESTRY
Remote Sensing and Forest Surveys - M.K Sharma
Forest Mensuration - Chaturveti
Agroforestry – Chaturvethi
A hand book of systematic botany - M.P.Shiva
Botany in forestry and environment - Ashok kumar
Systematic botany for foresters - S.Dasgupta
Forest Ecology - I.Bal
Forest Protection - L.S.Khanna
Hand book of Forest Zoology and Entomology - K.C.Joshi
Forest Management - Ram Prakash
Forest Nursery - Forest Seed Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
Forest Nursery Handbook - C.D.Kotah
An introduction to Forest Pathology - S.S.Negi
Forest Pathology - Bakshi
Forest Policy – Sha
Silvicultural Systems - Ram Prakash and Khanna
Plantation Forestry – Luna
Principles and Practices of Silviculture - L.S.Khanna
Forestry in India - A.P.Dwivedi
Hand book of Social Forestry - S.S.Negi
Forestry and Tribal Development - R S.Shukla
National Parks - Anand S Khali
AGRICULTURE
Agronomy-Yellomanda Reddy Sankaran and S.Mudaliar
Raising Field Crops - Techniques – ChiddaSingh
Economics - Johl and Kapoor
Soil Science - Biswas and Mukherjee
Physiology - Pandey and Singha
Seed Technology - Agarwal
Entomology - Vasanth Raj David
Plant Breeding - B.D.Singh
Plant Pathology - Malhotra / Rangaswamy / R.S.Singh
Extension – S.V.Supe
An introduction to Agriculture – Vyas
Horticulture - Kumar
Agriculture made easy

ADDITIONAL TOPICS YOU SHOULD REFER
Agricultural marketing and pricing
Food production
Fruit and spices
Package of Practices
Weeds
Water use efficency
Agri economics
Dry land agriculture