TANCET Agricultural & Irrigation Engineering Syllabus 2025

Management of water resources 

• Water management emerging issues 
• Development of watershed % capacity building 
• Water users association/Farmers Association
• CADP
• Watery delivering systems 

IT in agricultural system 

• Expert systems and models of plant production in horticulture 
• E-commerce, e-governance, e-business (systems and their applications)
• Precision farming 
• Crop production modeling 
• Plant growth in greenhouse on line measurement 

System analysis 

• Linear programming 
• Irrigation water allocation 
• Dynamic programming 
• Irrigation management 
• Application for irrigation scheduling 
• Decision support systems 
• Application to design & reservoirs operations 

Preservation of food 

• Water activity 
• Microbial death kinetics 
• Sterilization/pasteurization of liquid foods and milk 
• Cooling and freezing for preservation of food 
• Desorption and sorption isotherms 

Storage systems 

• Bins, godowns, and grains silos 
• Modified and controlled atmosphere storage

Size reduction and conveying 

• Grain cleaners effectiveness 
• Grading and cleaning 
• Solids, liquids, and gas centrifugal separation 
• Size separation using screening 
• Pneumatic, screw, bucket conveying 
• Energy requirement & mechanics in reducing size of granular solids 
• Comminuted solids particle size analysis 

Drying 

• Evaporators, drum, tray, and spray dryers 
• Hydrothermal treatment 
• Milling and drying of pulses, cereals, and oilseeds 
• Steady state heat transfer in radiation, convection, and conduction 
• Psychrometry 
• Concentration & drying of liquid foods

Wells and pumps 

• Steady flow via wells 
• Pumps classification 
• Characteristics of pumps 
• Selection and installation of pumps
• Types of wells

Groundwater hydrology 

• Groundwater occurrence 
• Law by Darcy 
• Confined and unconfined aquifers steady flow 
• Groundwater recharge 
• Aquifer properties evaluation 

Agricultural drainage 

• Surface and subsurface drainage system design and layout 
• Salinity control & leaching requirement 
• Quality & reuse of drainage and irrigation water 
• Drainage coefficient 

Irrigation engineering 

• Underground pipelines and design of irrigation channels 
• Irrigation scheduling 
• Irrigation methods design and evaluation 
• Irrigation efficiencies 
• Sprinkler, surface, and micro irrigation methods 

Soil water plant relation 

• Infiltration measurement 
• Crops water requirement, consumptive use and evapotranspiration 
• Soil moisture & irrigation water infiltration 

Erosion control 

• Soil erosion mechanics 
• Types of soil erosion 
• Water/wind erosion 
• Factors that affect erosion 
• Control soil erosion with engineering and biological measures 
• Estimation of soil loss 
• Bunds and terraces 
• Gully control structures 
• Vegetative waterways 
• Drop, drop inlet
• Earthen dams 
• Land use capability classification 
• Structures for rainwater harvesting 
• Farm ponds

Leveling and surveying 

• Distance and area measurement 
• Surveying and leveling instruments 
• Chain surveying 
• Traversing methods 
• Angles and bearings measurement 
• Plane table surveying 
• Leveling types 
• Theodolite traversing 
• Contouring 
• Computation of volume and area

Hydrology 

• Hydrological cycle (its components)
• Meteorological parameters (measurement, analysis of perception data, runoff estimation)
• Hydrograph analysis, theory of unit hydrograph (its application)
• Measurement of steam flow 
• Flood routing 

Soil mechanics 

• Soils engineering properties, relationships, and fundamental definitions 
• Mohr’s circle of stress 
• Earth pressures active/passive 
• Slopes stability 

Fluid mechanics 

• Real/ideal fluids 
• Fluids properties
• Hydrostatic forces at curved and plane surface 
• Equation of continuity 
• Bernoulli’s theorem 
• Moody’s diagram 
• Flow in open channels 

Tractors & power tillers 

• Power tillers & tractors repair, maintenance, selection, type 
• Brakes and clutches of tractor
• Power transmission system 
• Tractors chassis mechanics 
• Hydraulic control and mechanics used in tractors

Farm power 

• IC engine thermodynamics principles 
• Components of engines 
• Combustion and fuels 
• Lubricants (its properties)
• IC engine systems 

Farm machinery 

• Hitch systems 
• Soil tillage forces on tillage tool 
• Principles of working, functions, construction, operation for tillage 
• Performance parameters 
• Implements & tractors cost analysis

Sources of power

• Source of power on farm 
• Bio fuels

Machine design 

• Selection/design of machine elements 
• Permanent and temporary joints 
• Energy storing elements