NABARD Grade A Books 2024 for Prelims & Mains Exams

1. Puzzles & Seating arrangement
2. Syllogism
3. Data sufficiency
4. Statement based questions (Verbal reasoning)
5. Inequality
6. Miscellaneous Questions
7. Input-Output
8. Blood relations
9. Coding-Decoding

1. Data Interpretations
2. Quadratic Equations
3. Number Sehonoursries
4. Simplification/ Approximation
5. Data Sufficiency
6. Arithmetic Questions
7. Quantity Comparisons
8. Mathematical Inequalities

1. Reading Comprehension
2. Cloze test
3. Sentence improvement
4. Spotting the errors
5. Fill in the blanks
6. Sentence rearrangement
7. Para Jumbles
8. New pattern questions

The questions in this test will be from Current Affairs and Banking and Economy, Insurance. 

In Current Affairs, questions can be asked from recent appointments, awards, and honors, sports, new schemes, national and international news, the latest developments in Science and technology.

1. Structural and Institutional features
2. Economic Underdevelopment
3. Opening up the Indian Economy
4. Globalization
5. Economic Reforms in India
6. Privatization.

1. Rural and Urban
2. Measurement of Poverty
3. Poverty Alleviation Programmes of the Government

1. Population Growth and Economic Development
2. Population Policy in India

1. Characteristics / Status
2. Technical and Institutional changes in Indian Agriculture
3. Agricultural performance
4. Issues in Food Security in India
5. Non-Institutional and Institutional Agencies in rural credit

1. Industrial and Labour Policy
2. Industrial performance
3. Regional Imbalance in India's Industrial Development
4. Public Sector Enterprises

1. Role of International Funding Institutions
2. IMF & World Bank
3. WTO
4. Regional Economic Cooperation

1. Multiculturalism
2. Demographic trends
3. Urbanization and Migration
4. Gender Issues Joint family system
5. Social Infrastructure
6. Education
7. Health and Environment

1. Status & System of Education
2. Socio-Economic Problems associated with Illiteracy
3. Educational relevance and educational wastage
4. Educational Policy for India.

1. Problems of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes
2. Socio-economic programmes for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and other backward classes.

1. Social Movements
2. Indian Political Systems
3. Human Development

1. Definition, meaning and its branches
2. Agronomy: Definition, meaning, and scope of agronomy.
3. Classification of field crops.
4. Factors affecting crop production
5. Agro Climatic Zones
6. Cropping Systems: Definition and types of cropping systems.
7. Problems of dry land - Seed production, seed processing, seed village
8. Meteorology: weather parameters, crop-weather advisory
9. Precision Farming
10. System of Crop Intensification
11. Organic farming

1. Major soil types
2. Soil fertility
3. Fertilizers
4. Soil erosion
5. Soil conservation
6. Watershed management

1. Irrigation Management
2. Types of irrigation
3. Sources of irrigation
4. Crop-water requirement
5. Command area development
6. Water conservation techniques
7. Micro-irrigation
8. Irrigation pumps
9. Major, medium and minor irrigation.

1. Farm Machinery and Power
2. Sources of power on the farm- human, animal, mechanical, electrical, wind, solar and biomass, biofuels
3. Water harvesting structures
4. Farm Ponds
5. Agro-Processing
6. Controlled and modified storage, perishable food storage, godowns, bins, and grain silos.

1. Definition, meaning, and its branches
2. Agronomic practices and production technology of various plantation and horticulture crops
3. Post-harvest management, value, and supply chain management of Plantation and Horticulture crops.

1. Farm animals and their role in the Indian economy
2. Animal husbandry methods in India
3. Common terms pertaining to different species of livestock
4. Utility classification of breeds of cattle.
5. Introduction to common feeds and fodders, their classification, and utility.
6. Introduction to the poultry industry in India (past, present, and future status)
7. Common terms pertaining to poultry production and management
8. The concept of mixed farming and its relevance to socio-economic conditions of farmers in India
9. Complimentary and obligatory nature of livestock and poultry production with that of agricultural farming.

1. Fisheries resources
2. Management and exploitation - freshwater, brackish water, and marine
3. Aquaculture- Inland and marine
4. Biotechnology
5. Post-harvest technology
6. Importance of fisheries in India
7. Common terms pertaining to fish production.

1. Basic concepts of Forest and Forestry
2. Principles of silviculture, forest mensuration, forest management, and forest economics
3. Concepts of social forestry, agroforestry, joint forest management
4. Forest policy and legislation in India, India State of Forest Report 2015
5. Recent developments under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

1. Its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programs
2. Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra's (KVK) in the dissemination of Agricultural technologies.

1. Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, sustainable management, and conservation
2. Causes of climate change, GreenHouse Gases (GHG), major GHG emitting countries, climate analysis
3. Distinguish between adaptation and mitigation
4. Climate change impact on agriculture and rural livelihoods
5. Carbon credit
6. IPCC, UNFCCC, CoP meetings
7. Funding mechanisms for climate change projects
8. Initiatives by Govt of India, NAPCC, SAPCC, INDC.

1. Recent trends
2. Major challenges in agriculture measures to enhance
3. Viability of agriculture Factors of Production in agriculture
4. Agricultural Finance and Marketing
5. Impact of Globalization on Indian Agriculture and issues of Food Security
6. Concept and Types of Farm Management.

1. Concept of Rural Area
2. Structure of the Indian Rural Economy
3. Importance and role of the rural sector in India
4. Economic, Social and Demographic Characteristics of the Indian rural economy
5. Causes of Rural Backwardness.
6. Rural population in India
7. Occupational structure
8. Farmers, Agricultural Laborers, Artisans, Handicrafts, Traders, Forest dwellers/tribes and others in rural India
9. Trends of change in rural population and rural workforce
10. Problems and conditions of rural labour
11. Issues and challenges in Hand-looms
12. Panchayati Raj Institutions – Functions and Working.
13. MGNREGA, NRLM – Aajeevika, Rural Drinking water Programmes, Swachh Bharat, Rural Housing, PURA, and other rural development programs.

1. Introduction to Software
2. Data Structure through ‘C’ and ‘PASCAL’
3. Elements of Systems Analysis and Design
4. Numerical and Statistical Computing
5. Data Communication and Networks
6. Object-Oriented Computer Architecture
7. Object-Oriented Systems
8. Computer Fundamentals
9. File Structure and Programming in COBOL
10. Database Management Systems
11. Software Engineering
12. Accounting and Finance on Computers
13. Operating Systems
14. Intelligent Systems
15. Relational Database
16. Management Systems