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Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts India Forest Services (IFS) exam to recruit officers to forestry services of India for systematic management of forests in the country. IFS is conducted in three stage – prelims, mains and interview. Candidates must qualify each stage of the exam to be selected for subsequent exam stages. Prelims exam comprises two papers - Paper 1 and 2. Candidates will be shortlisted for Mains exam on the basis of marks secured in Paper 1 subject to them qualifying Paper 2 with minimum 33%. Candidates shortlisted for Mains will need to fill a Detailed Application Form (DAF). Candidates qualifying Mains exam will be called for Personality Test/ Interview. The Commission will prepare final cutoff on the basis of marks obtained in Mains exam and Interview.

Frequency:	Once a year
Languages	English, Hindi
Conducting Body:	Union Public Service Commission

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UPSC IFS 2019 Important Dates

01 Oct, 2019 - 31 Oct, 2019 (Tentative)	UPSC IFS Main Exam - Application - Detailed Application Form \| Mode: Online
15 Nov, 2019 - 22 Dec, 2019 (Tentative)	UPSC IFS Main Exam - Admit Card \| Mode: Online
01 Dec, 2019 - 22 Dec, 2019 (Tentative)	UPSC IFS Main Exam - Exam \| Mode: Offline
02 Jun, 2019	UPSC IFS Preliminary Exam - Exam \| Mode: Offline
01 May, 2019	UPSC IFS Preliminary Exam - Admit Card \| Mode: Online
19 Feb, 2019 - 18 Mar, 2019	UPSC IFS Preliminary Exam - Application \| Mode: Online
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UPSC IFS 2019 Eligibility Criteria

The eligibility criteria of UPSC IFS is prescribed by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) along with the notification. Candidates must fulfil all eligibility conditions provided by the Commission in order to be eligible to appear for the exam. UPSC IFS eligibility criteria 2019 has been given below.

Nationality: Candidates must be citizens of India

Age Limit: Candidates must be between 21 and 32 years (as on August 1, 2019)

Educational Qualification: Candidates must hold Bachelor's degree with at least one of the subjects - Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology or Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Forestry or Engineering

Number of attempts: Candidates will be able to appear for the exam a maximum of six times

UPSC IFS 2019 Application Process

Mode of Application : Online

Mode of Payment : Net Banking | Credit Card | Debit Card | Other

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the online application form of IFS 2019 for prelims exam on February 19, 2019. Candidates can fill the application form of IFS 2019 till March 18. The application fee for prelims exam is Rs 100. Candidates can pay the fee offline and online. Candidates who qualify the prelims stage will need to fill Detailed Application Form (DAF) for Mains. The fee for DAF is Rs. 200 which can be paid either offline or online. Women, SC and ST candidates are exempted from paying the application fee.

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Fill all required details
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Pay application fee
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Application Fees

Category	Quota	Mode	Gender	Amount
General, OBC		Online, Offline	Male	₹ 100

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UPSC IFS 2019 Syllabus

UPSC IFS Main Exam Syllabus

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Agriculture
Ecology and its relevance to man
Natural resources and their sustainable management and conservation
Physical and social environment as factors of crop distribution and production
Climatic elements as factors of crop growth
Impact of changing environment on cropping pattern as indicators of environments
Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals, and humans
Cropping pattern in different agro-climatic zones of the country
Impact of high-yielding and short-duration varieties on shifts in cropping pattern
Concepts of multiple cropping, multi-storey, relay and intercropping, and their importance in relation to food production
Package of practices for production of important cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fibres, sugar, commercial and fodder crops grown during Kharif and Rabi seasons in different regions of the country
Important features, scope and propagation of various types of forestry plantations such as extension
Social forestry, agro-forestry, and natural forests
Weeds, their characteristics, dissemination and association with various crops
Their multiplication
Cultural, biological and chemical control of weeds
Soil-physical, chemical and biological properties
Processes and factors of soil formation
Modern classification of Indian soils
Mineral and organic constituents of soils and their role in maintaining soil productivity
Essential plant nutrients and other beneficial elements in soils and plants
Principles of soil fertility and its evaluation for judicious fertilizer use, integrated nutrient management
Losses of nitrogen in soil, nitrogen-use efficiency in submerged rice soils, nitrogen fixation in soils
Fixation of phosphorus and potassium in soils and the scope for their efficient use
Problem soils and their reclamation methods
Soil conservation planning on watershed basis
Erosion and run-off management in hilly, foot hills, and valley lands
Processes and factors affecting them
Dry land agriculture and its problems
Technology of stabilising agriculture production in rain fed agriculture area
Water-use efficiency in relation to crop production
Criteria for scheduling irrigations, ways and means of reducing run-off losses of irrigation water
Drip and sprinkler irrigation
Drainage of water-logged soils
Quality of irrigation water
Effect of industrial effluents on soil and water pollution
Farm management, scope, important and characteristics, farm planning
Optimum resources use and budgeting
Economics of different types of farming systems
Marketing and pricing of agricultural inputs and outputs, price fluctuations and their cost
Role of cooperatives in agricultural economy
Types and systems of farming and factors affecting them
Agricultural extension, its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programmes
Socioeconomic survey and status of big, small, and marginal farmers and landless agricultural labourers
Farm mechanization and its role in agricultural production and rural employment
Training programmes for extension workers
Lab-to-land programmes
Cell theory
Cell structure
Cell organelles and their function
Cell division
Nucleic acids-structure and function
Gene structure and function
Laws of heredity
Their significance in plant breeding
Chromosome structure
Chromosomal aberrations
Linkage and cross-over and their significance in recombination breeding
Polyploidy, euploid and aneuploids
Mutation-micro and macro-and their role in crop improvement
Variation, components of variation
Heritability, sterility and incompatibility, classification and their application in crop improvement
Cytoplasmic inheritance, sex-linked, sex influenced and sex-limited characters
History of plant breeding
Modes of reproduction, selfing and crossing technique
Origin and evolution of crop plants, centre of origin, law of homologous series, crop genetic resources-conservation and utilization
Application of principles of plant breeding to the improvement of major field crops
Pure-line selection, pedigree, mass and recurrent selections, combining ability, its significance in plant breeding
Hybrid vigour and its exploitation
Backcross method of breeding
Breeding for disease and pest resistance
Role of interspecific and inter-generic hybridization
Role of biotechnology in plant breeding
Improved varieties, hybrids, composites of various crop plants
Seed technology its importance
Different kinds of seeds and their seed production and processing techniques
Role of public and private sectors in seed production,
Processing and marketing in India
Physiology and its significance in agriculture
Imbibitions, surface tension, diffusion and osmosis
Absorption and translocation of water, transpiration and water economy
Enzymes and plant pigments
Photosynthesis modern concepts and factors affecting the process
Aerobic and non-aerobic respiration
C and Cam mechanisms
Carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism
Growth and development
Photo-periodism and vernalization
Auxins, hormones, and other plant regulators and their mechanism of action and importance in agriculture
Physiology of seed development and germination dormancy
Climatic requirements and cultivation of major fruits, plants, vegetable crops and flower plants
The package of practices and their scientific basis
Handling and marketing problems of fruit and vegetables
Principal methods of preservation of important fruits and vegetable products, processing techniques and equipment
Role of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition
Raising of ornamental plants and design and layout of lawns and gardens
Diseases and pests of field vegetables
Orchard and plantation crops of India
Causes and classification of plant pests and diseases
Principles of control of plant pests and diseases biological control of pests and diseases
Integrated pest and disease management
Epidemiology and forecasting
Pesticides their formulations and modes of action
Compatibility with Rhizobial inoculants
Microbial toxins
Storage pests and diseases of cereals and pulses and their control
Food production and consumption trends in India
National and international food policies
Production, procurement, distribution and processing constraints
Relation of food production to national dietary pattern, major deficiencies of calorie and protein
Agricultural engineering
Soil and water conservation	Scope of soil and water conservation
	Mechanics and types of erosion and their causes
	Rainfall, runoff and sedimentation relationships and their measurement
	Soil erosion control measures
	Biological and engineering including stream bank protection
	Vegetative barriers
	Contour bunds
	Contour trenches
	Contour stone walls
	Contour ditches
	Terraces, outlets and grassed waterways
	Gully control structures, drop, drop inlet and chute spillways
	Temporary and permanent
	Design of permanent soil conservation structures such as chute, drop and drop inlet spillways
	Design of farm ponds and percolation ponds
	Principles of flood control-flood routing
	Watershed management and investigation, planning and implementation
	Selection of priority areas and water shed work plan
	Water harvesting and moisture conservation
	Land development and leveling, estimation of earth volumes and costing
	Wind erosion process
	Design for shelter belts and wind brakes and their management
	Forest conservation act
Aerial photography and remote sensing	Basic characteristics of photographic images
	Interpretation keys
	Equipment for interpretation
	Imagery interpretation for land use, geology, soil and forestry
	Remote sensing of merits and demerits of conventional and remote sensing approaches
	Types of satellite images
	Fundamentals of satellite image interpretation
	Techniques of visual and digital interpretations for soil
	Water and land use management
	Use of gis in planning and development of watersheds
	Forests including forest cover and water resources etc
Irrigation and drainage	Sources of water for irrigation
	Planning and design of minor irrigation projects
	Techniques of measuring soil moisture
	Laboratory and in situ
	Soil-water plant relationships
	Water, measuring devices and orifices, weirs and flumes
	Methods of irrigation and surface, sprinkler and drip, fertigation
	Irrigation efficiencies and their estimation
	Design and construction of canals
	Field channels
	Underground pipelines
	Head-gates, diversion boxes and structures for road crossing
	Occurrence of ground water
	Hydraulics of wells
	Types of wells tube wells and open wells and their construction
	Well development and testing
	Pumps-types, selection and installation
	Rehabilitation of sick and failed wells
	Drainage causes of water logging and salt problem
	Methods of drainage
	Drainage of irrigated and unirrigated lands
	Design of surface
	Sub-surface and vertical drainage systems
	Improvement and utilization of poor quality water
	Reclamation of saline and alkali soils
	Economics of irrigation and drainage systems
	Use of waste water for irrigation
	Standards of waste water for sustained irrigation
	Feasibility and economics
Agricultural structures	Site selection, design and construction of farmstead
	Farm house, cattle shed, dairy bam, poultry shed, hog housing
	Machinery and implement shed
	Storage structures for food grains, feed and forage
	Design and construction of fences and farm roads
	Structures for plant environment and green houses, poly houses and shade houses
	Common building materials used in construction and timber, brick, stone, tiles, concrete etc and their properties
	Water supply, drainage and sanitation system
Farm power and machinery	Agricultural mechanization and its scope
	Sources of farm power
	Animate and electro-mechanical
	Thermodynamics, construction and working of internal combustion engines
	Fuel, ignition, lubrication, cooling and governing system of ic engines
	Different types of tractors and power tillers
	Power transmission, ground drive, power take off (p.t.o.) and control systems
	Operation and maintenance of farm machinery for primary and secondary tillage
	Traction theory
	Sowing transplanting and interculture implements and tools
	Plant protection equipment of spraying and dusting
	Harvesting, threshing and combining equipment
	Machinery for earth moving and land development
	Methods and cost estimation
	Ergonomics of man-machine system
	Machinery for horticulture and agro-forestry, feeds and forages
	Haulage of agricultural and forest produce
Agro-energy	Energy requirements of agricultural operations and agro-processing
	Selection, installation, safety and maintenance of electric motors for agricultural applications
	Solar thermal and photovoltoic, wind and bio-gas energy and their utilization in agriculture
	Gasification of biomass for running ic engines and for electric power generation
	Energy efficient cooking stoves and alternate cooking fuels
	Distribution of electricity for agricultural and agro-industrial applications
Agricultural process engineering	Post harvest technology of crops and its scope
	Engineering properties of agricultural produces and by-products
	Unit operations clearing grading, size reduction, densification, concentration, drying/dehydration, evaporation, filtration, freezing and packaging of agricultural produces and by-products
	Material handling equipment belt and screw conveyors
	Bucket elevators, their capacity and power requirement
	Processing of milk and dairy products
	Homogenization
	Cream separation
	Pasteurization
	Sterilization
	Spray and roller drying
	Butter making, ice cream, cheese and shrikhand manufacture
	Waste and by-product utilization
	Rice husk, rice bran, sugarcane bagasse, plant residues and coir pith
Instrumentation and computer applications in agricultural engineering	Electronic devices and their characteristics-rectifiers, amplifiers, oscillators, multi-vibrators
	Digital circuits
	Sequential and combinational system
	Application of microprocessors in data acquisition and control of agricultural engineering processes
	Measurement systems for level, flow, strain, force, torque, power, pressure, vacuum and temperature
	Computers introduction, input/output devices, central processing unit, memory devices, operating systems, processors, keyboards and printers
	Algorithms, flowchart specification, programme translation and problem analysis in agricultural engineering
	Multimedia and audio-visual aids
Animal husbandry and veterinary science
Animal nutrition	Energy sources
	Energy, metabolism and requirements for maintenance and production of milk, meat, eggs and wool
	Evaluation of feeds as sources of energy
	Trends in protein nutrition
	Sources of protein metabolism and synthesis
	Protein quantity and quality in relation to requirements
	Energy protein ratios in ration
	Minerals in animal diet
	Sources, functions, requirements and their relationship of the basic minerals nutrients including trace elements
	Vitamins, hormones and growth stimulating, substances
	Sources, functions, requirements and interrelationship with minerals
	Advances in ruminant nutrition-dairy cattle
	Nutrients and their metabolism with reference to milk production and its composition
	Nutrient requirements for calves, heifers, dry and milking cows and buffaloes
	Limitations of various feeding systems
	Advances in non-ruminant nutrition-poultry-nutrients and their metabolism with reference to poultry
	Meat and egg production
	Nutrients requirements and feed formulation and broilers at different ages
	Advances in non-ruminant nutrition-swine-nutrients and their metabolism with special reference to growth and quality of meat production
	Nutrient requirement and feed formulation for baby-growing and finishing pigs
	Advances in applied animal nutrition-a critical review and evaluation of feeding experiments
	Digestibility and balance studies
	Feeding standards and measures of food energy
	Nutrition requirements for growth
	Maintenance and production
	Balanced rations
Animal physiology	Growth and animal production
	Prenatal and postnatal growth
	Maturation
	Growth curves
	Measures of growth
	Factors affecting growth
	Conformation, body composition and meat quality
	Milk production and reproduction and digestion
	Current status of hormonal control of mammary development
	Milk secretion and milk ejection
	Male and female reproduction organ their components and function
	Digestive organs and their functions
	Environmental physiology
	Physiological relations and their regulation
	Mechanisms of adaptation
	Environmental factors and regulatory mechanism involved in animal behaviour
	Methods of controlling climatic stress
	Semen quality
	Preservation and artificial insemination-components of semen
	Composition of spermatozoa
	Chemical and physical properties of ejaculated semen
	Factors affecting semen in vivo and in vitro
	Factors affecting semen production and quality preservation
	Composition of diluents
	Sperm concentration
	Transport of diluted semen
	Deep freezing techniques in cows, sheep and goats, swine and poultry
	Detection of estrus and time of insemination for better conception
Livestock production and management	Commercial dairy farming
	Comparison of dairy farming in india with advanced countries
	Dairying under fixed farming and as a specialised farming
	Economic dairy farming
	Starting of a dairy farm
	Capital and land requirement
	Organisation of the dairy farm
	Procurement of goods
	Opportunities in dairy farming
	Factors determining the efficiency of dairy animal
	Herd recording, budgeting, cost of milk production
	Pricing policy
	Personnel management
	Developing practical and economic ration for dairy cattle
	Supply of greens throughout the year
	Field and fodder requirements of dairy farm
	Feeding regimes for day and young stock and bulls
	Heifers and breeding animals
	New trends in feeding young and adult stock
	Feeding records
	Commercial meat, egg and wool production
	Development of practical and economic rations for sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits and poultry
	Supply of greens, fodder, feeding regimens for young and mature stock
	New trends in enhancing production and management
	Capital and land requirements and socioeconomic concept
	Feeding and management of animals under drought
	Flood and other natural calamities
Genetics and animal breeding	mitosis and meiosis
	Mendelian inheritance
	Deviations to mendelian genetics
	Expression of genes
	Linkage and crossing over
	Sex determination
	Sex influenced and sex limited characters
	Blood groups and polymorphism
	Chromosome aberrations
	Gene and its structure
	Dna as a genetic materia
	Genetic code and protein synthesis
	Recombinant dna technology, mutations, types of mutations
	Methods for detecting mutations and mutation rate
	Population genetics applied to animal breeding
	Quantitative vs. qualitative traits
	Hardy weinberg law
	Population vs. individual
	Gene and genotypic frequency
	Forces changing gene frequency
	Random drift and small populations
	Theory of path coefficient
	Inbreeding, methods of estimating inbreeding coefficient, systems of inbreeding
	Effective population size
	Breeding value
	Estimation of breeding value
	Dominance and epistatic deviation
	Partitioning of variation
	Genotype x environment correlation and genotype x environment interaction
	Role of multiple measurements
	Resemblance between relatives
	Breeding systems
	Heritability, repeatability and genetic and phenotypic correlations
	Their methods of estimation and precision of estimates
	Aids to selection and their relative merits
	Individual, pedigree, family and within family selection
	Progeny testing
	Methods of selection
	Construction of selection indices and their uses
	Comparative evaluation of genetic gains through various selection methods
	Indirect selection and correlated response
	Inbreeding, upgrading, cross-breeding and synthesis of brees
	Crossing of inbred lines for commercial production
	Selection for general and specific combining ability
	Breeding for threshold character
Health and hygiene	Histology and histological techniques
	Stains-chemical classification of stains used in biological work-principles of staining tissues-mordants-progressive and regressive stains-differential staining of cytoplasmic and connective tissue elements
	Methods of preparation and processing of tissues-celloidin embedding
	Freezing microtomy-microscopy-bright field microscope and electron microscope
	Cytology structure of cell
	Organells and inclusions
	Cell division and cell types
	Tissues and their classification
	Embryonic and adult tissues
	Comparative histology of organs
	Vascular, nervous, digestive, respiratory, musculoskeletal and urogenital systems
	Endocrine glands-integuments-sense organs
	Embryology
	Embryology of vertebrates with special reference to aves and domestic mammalsgametogenesis
	Fertilization-germ layers-foetal membranes & placentation-types of placenta in domestic mammals
	Teratology-twin and twinning-organogenesis-germ layer derivatives-endodermal
	Mesodermal and ectodermal derivatives
	Bovine anatomy-regional anatomy
	Paranasal sinuses of ox-surface anatomy of salivary glands
	Regional anatomy of infraorbital, maxillary, mandibuloalveolar
	Mental and coronal nerve block-regional anatomy of para-vertebral nerves
	Pudental nerve, median, ulnar and radial nerves-tibial
	Fibular and digital nerves
	Cranial nerves
	Structures involved in epidural anaesthesia
	Superficial lymph nodes-surface anatomy of visceral organs of thoracic
	Abdominal and pelvic cavities
	Comparative features of locomotor apparatus and their application in the biomechanics of mammalian body
	Anatomy of fowl
	Musculo-skeletal system
	Functional anatomy in relation to respiration and flying
	Digestion and egg production
	Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration
	Excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease
	Blood constituents
	Properties and functions-blood cell formation-haemoglobin synthesis and chemistry-plasma proteins production, classification and properties
	Coagulation of blood
	Haemorrhagic disorders-anticoagulants-blood groups-blood volume-plasma expanders-buffer systems in blood
	Biochemical tests and their significance in disease diagnosis
	Circulation
	Physiology of heart
	Cardiac cycle-heart sounds
	Heartbeat and electro-cardiograms
	Work and efficiency of heart-effect of ions on heart function
	Metabolism of cardiac muscle
	Nervous and chemical regulation of heart
	Effect of temperature and stress on heart
	Blood pressure and hypertension
	Osmotic regulation
	Arterial pulse
	Vasomotor regulation of circulation and shock
	Coronary and pulmonary circulation
	Blood-brain barrier-cerebrospinal fluid-circulation in birds
	Respiration
	Mechanism of respiration
	Transport and exchange of gases-neural control of respiration-chemo receptors-hypoxia-respiration in birds
	Excretion
	Structure and function of kidney
	Formation of urine methods of studying renal function
	Renal regulation of acid-base balance
	Physiological constituents of urine-renal failure-passive venous congestion-urinary recreation in chicken-sweat glands and their function
	Biochemical tests for urinary dysfunction
	Endocrine glands
	Functional disorders their symptoms and diagnosis
Synthesis of hormones
Mechanism and control of secretion
Hormonal receptors classification and function
General knowledge of pharmacology and therapeutics of drugs
Cellular level of pharmacodynamics and pharmaco-kinetics-drugs acting on fluids and electrolyte balance-drugs acting on autonomic nervous system
Modern concepts of anaesthesia and dissociative anaesthetics
Autocoids
Antimicrobials and principles of chemotherapy in microbial injections-use of hormones in therapeutics
Chemotherapy of parasitic infections
Drug and economic persons in the edible tissues of animals
Chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases
Veterinary hygiene with reference to water, air and habitation
Assessment of pollution of water
Air and soil-importance of climate in animal health-effect of environment on animal function and performance
Relationship between industrialization and animal agriculture
Animal housing requirements for specific categories of domestic animals viz
Pregnant cows and sows
Milking cows
Broiler birds-stress
Strain and productivity in relation to animal habitation
Animal diseases	Pathogenesis, symptoms, postmortem lesions, diagnosis and control of infection diseases of cattle, pigs and poultry, horses, sheep and goats
	Etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of production diseases of cattle, pig and poultry
	Deficiency diseases of domestic animals and birds
	Diagnosis and treatment of nonspecific condition like impaction
	Bloat, diarrhoea, indigestion, dehydration, stroke, poisoning
	Diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders
	Principles and methods of immunization of animals against specific diseases-hard immunity-disease free zones-'zero' disease concept-chemoprophylaxis
	Anesthesia-local
	Regional and general-pre-anesthetic medication
	Symptoms and surgical interference in fractures and dislocation
	Hernia, choking, abomassal displacement
	Caesarian operations
	Rumenotomycastrations
	Disease investigation techniques
	Materials for laboratory investigation
	Establishment animal health centres
	Disease free zone
Veterinary public health	Zoonoses
	Classification and definition
	Role of animals and birds in prevalence and transmission of zoonotic diseases occupational zoonotic diseases
	Epidemiology
	Principles, definition of epidemiological terms
	Application of epidemiological measures in the study of diseases and disease control
	Epidemiological features of air, water and food borne infections
	Veterinary jurisprudence
	Rules and regulations for improvement of animal quality and prevention of animal diseases
	State and control rules for prevention of animal and animal product borne diseases-s.p. c.a
	Veterolegal cases-certificates
	Materials and methods of collection of samples for veterolegal investigation
Milk and milk products technology	Milk technology
	Organization of rural milk procurement
	Collection and transport of raw milk
	Quality, testing and grading raw milk
	Quality storage grades of whole milk
	Skimmed milk and cream
	Processing, packaging, storing, distributing
	Marketing defects and their control and nutritive properties of the following milks
	Pasteurized
	Standardized
	Toned and double toned
	Sterilized and homogenized
	Reconstituted, recombined and flavoured milks
	Preparation of cultured milks
	Cultures and their management, youghurt, dahi, lassi and srikhand
	Preparation of flavoured and sterlized milks
	Legal standards
	Sanitation requirement for clean and safe milk and for the milk plant equipment
	Milk products technology
	Selection of raw materials
	Assembling
	Production and processing
	Storing, distributing and marketing milk products such as butter, ghee, khoa, channa, cheese
	Condensed, evaporated, dried milk and baby food
	Ice cream and kulfi
	By products
	Whey products
	Butter milk, lactose and casein
	Testing grading
	Judging milk products
	Bis and agmark specifications
	Quality control nutritive properties
	Packaging, processing and operational control costs
Meat hygiene and technology	Meat hygiene
	Ante mortem care and management of food animals, stunning, slaughter and dressing operations
	Abattoir requirements and designs
	Meat inspection procedures and judgement of carcass meat cuts
	Drading of carcass meat cuts-duties and functions of veterinarians in wholesome meat production
	Hygienic methods of handling production of meat
	Spoilage of meat and control measures
	Post slaughter physicochemical changes in meat and factors that influence them
	Quality improvement methods
	Adulteration of meat and defection
	Regulatory provisions in meat trade and industry
	Meat technology
	Physical and chemical characteristics of meat
	Meat emulsions
	Methods of preservation of meat
	Curing, canning, irradiation, packaging of meat and meat products
	Meat products and formulations
	Byproducts
	Slaughter house by products and their utilisation
	Edible and inedible byproducts
	Social and economic implications of proper utilisation of slaughter house byproducts
	Organ products for food and pharmaceuticals
	Poultry products technology
	Chemical composition and nutritive value of poultry meat
	Pre slaughter care and management
	Slaughtering techniques
	Inspection, preservation of poultry meat and products
	Legal and bis standards
	Structure, composition and nutritive value of eggs
	Microbial spoilage
	Preservation and maintenance
	Marketing of poultry meat, eggs and products
	Rabbit/fur animal farming
	Care and management of rabbit meat production
	Disposal and utilization of fur and wool and recycling of waste byproducts
	Grading of wool
Extension	Basic philosophy, objectives, concept and principles of extension
	Different methods adopted to educate farmers under rural conditions
	Generation of technology its transfer and feedback
	Problems of constraints in transfer of technology
	Animal husbandry programmes for rural development

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UPSC IFS 2019 Preparation Tips

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The preparation tips of UPSC IFS provide candidates suggestions and advice to prepare for Indian Forest Service (IFS). Candidates following these guidelines can secure better marks in the exam, increase their likelihood of recruitment to the post. The preparation tips for the exam are as follows.

Candidates must examine the syllabus provided in the notification to identify the topics required for the exam
After going through the syllabus, candidates should thoroughly study the exam pattern of UPSC RAS 2019
Next, candidates must prepare the routine for preparation in a manner that will let them cover all topics required for the exam while leaving ample time for revision
Revision helps candidates brush up their knowledge of the topics they have covered for UPSC IFS
After revision, candidates must practice previous years’ question papers, sample papers, mock tests, etc. to help get a better understanding of the exam

UPSC IFS 2019 Exam Pattern

UPSC IFS Preliminary Exam Exam Pattern

The exam pattern of UPSC IFS prelims exam will be provided by UPSC along with the notification. The exam will comprise two papers of 200 marks each. Questions asked in Prelims will be objective type questions. As per the marking scheme, one mark will be awarded to candidates for correct responses while 0.33 mark will be deducted for wrong answers. The exam pattern of UPSC IFS 2019 is provided in the table below.

UPSC IFS Exam Pattern 2019 - Prelims

Name of paper	Number of Questions	Total marks	Duration
General Studies 1	200	200	2 hours
General Studies 2	200	200	2 hours

UPSC IFS Main Exam Exam Pattern

The Mains exam will comprise six papers and each paper will be held for 3 hours. All questions asked in the exam will be conventional type questions. The exam pattern of UPSC IFS is provided below.

UPSC IFS 2019 Exam Pattern - Mains

Name of paper	Total marks	Duration
Paper 1	300	3 hours
Paper 2	300	3 hours
Paper 3	200	3 hours
Paper 4	200	3 hours
Paper 5	200	3 hours
Paper 6	200	3 hours
Interview/ Personality Test	300

UPSC IFS 2019 Admit Card

UPSC IFS Preliminary Exam Admit Card

UPSC IFS admit card for Prelims will be issued by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). UPSC IFS admit card 2019 Prelims contains information including name of candidates, roll number, registration number, date, time, venue of exam and guidelines to be followed on the day of exam. To download the admit card, candidates will need to click on the log in link and then enter registration number or roll number and date of birth. After logging in, the admit card for Prelims will be displayed on screen. Candidates must download and print copy of the admit card. Candidates must carry a copy of UPSC IFS admit card for Prelims on the day of exam to be allowed to appear for the test.

UPSC IFS Main Exam Admit Card

Candidates qualifying prelims will be issued UPSC IFS admit card for Mains exam by Union Public Service Commission. The admit card will be released online. UPSC IFS Mains admit card consist of details such as candidates' name, roll number, registration number, exam timing and centre details and exam day instructions.

Steps to download UPSC IFS admit card for Mains:

Click on the link
Enter registration number/ roll number and date of birth
Download and print copy of admit card

UPSC IFS 2019 Exam Centers

UPSC IFS Preliminary Exam Exam Centers

State	City
Tripura	Agartala
Uttar Pradesh	Agra
	Aligarh
	Allahabad
	Bareilly
	Gautam Budh Nagar
	Ghaziabad
	Gorakhpur
	Lucknow
	Varanasi
Rajasthan	Ajmer
	Jaipur
	Jodhpur
	Udaipur
Gujarat	Ahmedabad
Gujarat	Rajkot
Mizoram	Aizawl
Andhra Pradesh	Ananthapur
	Tirupati
	Vijayawada
	Visakhapatnam
Maharashtra	Aurangabad
	Mumbai
	Nagpur
	Navi Mumbai
	Pune
	Thane
Karnataka	Bengaluru
	Dharwad
	Mysuru
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal
	Gwalior
	Indore
	Jabalpur
Chhattisgarh	Bilaspur
Chhattisgarh	Raipur
Chandigarh	Chandigarh
Tamil Nadu	Chennai
	Coimbatore
	Madurai
	Tiruchirapalli
	Vellore
Odisha	Cuttack
Odisha	Sambalpur
Uttarakhand	Dehradun
Delhi	New Delhi
Assam	Guwahati
Assam	Jorhat
Haryana	Faridabad
Haryana	Gurgaon
Sikkim	Gangtok
Bihar	Gaya
Bihar	Patna
Telangana	Hyderabad
Telangana	Warangal
Manipur	Imphal
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar
Jammu and Kashmir	Jammu
Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar
Kerala	Kochi
	Kozhikode
	Thiruvananthapuram
Nagaland	Kohima
West Bengal	Kolkata
West Bengal	Siliguri
Punjab	Ludhiana
Goa	Panaji
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Port Blair
Puducherry	Puducherry
Jharkhand	Ranchi
Meghalaya	Shillong
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla

UPSC IFS Main Exam Exam Centers

State	City
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal
Tamil Nadu	Chennai
Delhi	New Delhi
Assam	Guwahati
Telangana	Hyderabad
West Bengal	Kolkata
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow
Maharashtra	Nagpur
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Port Blair
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla

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Documents Required at Exam

Aadhaar Card
Voter Card
PAN Card
Passport
Driving License
Identity card issued by Government/ University/ College/ Institute

UPSC IFS 2019 Answer Key

UPSC IFS Preliminary Exam Answer Key

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) releases the answer key of UPSC IFS Prelims exams after the declaration of final result. The answer key of prelims will be released online for all sets of General Studies - Paper 1 and 2. The answer key will be available in the form of PDF file. Candidates will be able to avail the answer key by clicking on the link which will be provided by UPSC. Upon clicking, the pdf file containing the correct answers to all questions asked in Prelims exam will be displayed on screen. Candidates must download and save the answer key for future reference.

UPSC IFS Main Exam Answer Key

UPSC IFS answer key for Mains will not be released by Union Public Service Commission as the exam is descriptive in nature and comprises only conventional type questions.

UPSC IFS 2019 Result

UPSC IFS Preliminary Exam Result

UPSC IFS result for Prelims will be announced by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in the online mode. UPSC will release the result of IFS prelims in the form of pdf file containing the roll numbers of candidates who have qualified the exam stage.

Procedure to check UPSC IFS result 2019:

Click on the link
The result will be displayed on screen in pdf format
The result will contain the roll number of candidates who have qualified the exam
Press ‘Ctrl + F’ and enter respective roll number to check whether they have qualified the exam
Download the pdf file for future reference

UPSC IFS Main Exam Result

UPSC will declare the result of UPSC IFS Mains after the conduct of the exam. Based on the result of Mains exam, candidates will be called for Interview. After the Interview has been conducted, the Commission will prepare the final result on the basis of marks secured in Mains exam and Interview.

UPSC IFS 2019 Cutoff

UPSC IFS Preliminary Exam Cutoff

The cut off of UPSC IFS Prelims exam is the minimum marks that candidates are required to secure in order to be shortlisted for Mains exam. The Commission will determine the cutoff of prelims exam on the basis of marks obtained in Paper 1 subject to qualifying Paper 2 with minimum 33%. Candidates will be selected for Mains exam based on the cut off of UPSC IFS Prelims exam.

UPSC IFS Main Exam Cutoff

Union Public Service Commission will determine the cutoff of UPSC IFS for Mains after the conduct of the exam. Based on Mains cutoff, candidates will be selected for Interview stage of the exam. After the conduct of interview, a final cutoff will be released based on the combined scores of Mains exam and Interview. On the basis of the final cutoff, UPSC will recruit candidates for UPSC Indian Forest Services (IFS).

UPSC IFS 2019 Selection Process

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will conduct IFS exam in three stages – Prelims, Mains and Interview. Candidates will need to qualify each exam stage to be shortlisted for the next stage of the exam. Candidates will be selected for Mains exam on the basis of marks secured in Paper 1 of Prelims provided they have qualified Paper 2 with minimum 33%. On the basis of performance in the Mains exam, candidates will be called for Personality test/ Interview. After the conduct of Interview, a final cutoff will be declared based on which candidates will be recruited for the post.