IBPS AFO

IBPS AFO

The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) Agricultural Field Officer (Scale I) and Specialist Officer (SO) position is primarily concerned with promoting bank financial goods and services to farmers and landlords in rural regions for agricultural reasons.

Participating Banks

i. Bank of Baroda 

ii. Bank of India 

iii. Bank of Maharashtra

iv. Canara Bank

v. Central Bank of India 

vi. Indian Bank

vii. Indian Overseas Bank 

viii. Punjab National Bank 

ix. Punjab & Sind Bank

x. UCO Bank 

xi. Union Bank of India

IBPS AFO Exam 2024 – Important Dates 

IBPS AFO Recruitment – Selection Process 

The selection process for IBPS AFO is given below:

• Preliminary Examination
• Mains Examination
• Interview

IBPS AFO Eligibility Criteria

IBPS AFO Recruitment – Age Limit 

The minimum age of a candidate should be 20 years. 

The maximum age of a candidate should not exceed 30 years.

Upper age relaxation will be provided to reserved categories as per rules and regulations. 

Educational Qualification 

The candidate must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following disciplines from a recognized University or Institution 

4 year Degree (graduation) in any of them:

i.. Agriculture

ii. Horticulture

iii. Animal Husbandry

iv. Veterinary Science

v. Dairy Science

vi. Fishery Science

vii. Pisciculture

viii. Agri. Marketing & Cooperation

ix. Co-operation & Banking

x. Agro-Forestry

xi Forestry

xii. Agricultural Biotechnology

xiii. Food Science

xiv. Agriculture Business Management

xv. Food Technology

xvi. Dairy Technology

xvii. Agricultural Engineering

xviii. Sericulture

xix. Fisheries Engineering

xx. Students who are awaiting the final year result too can apply. 

IBPS AFO Examination Pattern

Preliminary Examination Pattern 

The examination pattern for the preliminary paper is mentioned below: 

The duration of the examination is 2 hours (120 minutes).

Mains Examination Pattern

IBPS AFO Syllabus for English language

i. Reading Comprehension

ii. Error Detection

iii. Cloze Test

iv. Antonym/Synonym

v. Sentence Rearrangement

vi. Fillers

vii. Phrase Replacement

IBPS AFO Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude 

i. Number System

ii. Time & Distance

iii. Problems on trains

iv. Mixtures & Allegations

v. Simple & Compound Interest

vi. Problems on Ages

vii. Pipes & Cisterns

viii. Ratio & Proportions

ix. Percentage

x. Permutation & Combination

xi. Time & Work

xii. Boats & Streams

xiii. Profit & Loss

xiv. DI

xv. Simplification & Approximation

IBPS AFO Syllabus 2023 for Reasoning 

i. Puzzles

ii. Seating arrangement

iii. Coding-Decoding

iv. Input-Output

v. Direction Sense

vi. Blood Relation

vii. Syllogism

viii. Alpha Numeric Series

ix. Ranking test

IBPS AFO Mains Syllabus

i. Agriculture current affairs

ii. Crop horticulture vegetables

iii. Spacing time of sowing seed rate

iv. Varieties important only

v. Herbicides Pesticides

vi. Important points regarding plants fruits vegetables

vii. Preservation of fruits and vegetables

viii. Types of cropping system

ix. Different Diseases

x. Seed technology – Different government schemes

xi. Agriculture economics – Agriculture cost and schemes

xii. Various types of agricultural practices

xiii. Soil resources

xiv. Indian soil

xv. Types of facts ( like humus content, CN ratio etc)

xvi. Green manures

xvii. Animal husbandry and technology

xviii. Different breeds of animals

xix. Agriculture small industries like honey daily in the fisheries

xx. Various diseases and their causes

xxi. Rural welfare activities in India – Before independence and After independence

xxii. Different insurance schemes regarding agriculture

xxiii. Women and child development schemes