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B016593 - AGRONOMY AND CROP CULTIVATION
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Academic Year 2015-16
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
AGR/02 - AGRONOMY AND FIELD CROPS
Credits
9
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
01/03/2016 ⇒ 03/06/2016
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Soil fertility, techniques to improve and preserve soil fertility, field crops, forage crops, natural grass and shrubby lands.
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Learning Objectives
Ecosystem, biotope and its components, soil and its fiscal, chemical and biological properties, soil tillage, soil erosion ditching system, hydraulic reclamation, fertilizing, weeds, farming rotation, anomalous soils, irrigation.
Field crops:
wheat, barley, oats, rye, triticosecale, corn, sorghum, sunflower, haricot and horse bean, fodder beet, Jerusalem artichoke,
Forage crops:
Herbaceous, shrubby, arboreous forage crops; amelioration of the pasture-lands; fodder offer; harvest, conservation and forage utilisation. Prealps, Alps, Apennine and Isles and seaboard land natural meadow, grazing meadow and pastures.
Field crops:
wheat, barley, oats, rye, triticosecale, corn, sorghum, sunflower, haricot and horse bean, fodder beet, Jerusalem artichoke,
Forage crops:
Herbaceous, shrubby, arboreous forage crops; amelioration of the pasture-lands; fodder offer; harvest, conservation and forage utilisation. Prealps, Alps, Apennine and Isles and seaboard land natural meadow, grazing meadow and pastures.
Prerequisites
Competence acquired (at the end of the course):
Agro-ecosystem management
Skills acquired (at the end of the course): Agro-ecosystem sustainable management.
Agro-ecosystem management
Skills acquired (at the end of the course): Agro-ecosystem sustainable management.
Teaching Methods
Powerpoint presentation and practical off-site
Type of Assessment
Write and oral examination on the subjects of lectures to verify theoretical and professional skills.
Verification: clarity of the concepts of skills based on real cases, ownership of the scientific-technical language.
Verification: clarity of the concepts of skills based on real cases, ownership of the scientific-technical language.
Course program
Ecosystem, biotope and its components, soil and its fiscal, chemical and biological properties, soil tillage, soil erosion ditching system, hydraulic reclamation, fertilizing, weeds, farming rotation, anomalous soils, irrigation.
Field crops:
wheat, barley, oats, rye, triticosecale, corn, sorghum, sunflower, haricot and horse bean, fodder beet, Jerusalem artichoke,
Forage crops:
Herbaceous, shrubby, arboreous forage crops; amelioration of the pasture-lands; fodder offer; harvest, conservation and forage utilisation. Prealps, Alps, Apennine and Isles and seaboard land natural meadow, grazing meadow and pastures.
Field crops:
wheat, barley, oats, rye, triticosecale, corn, sorghum, sunflower, haricot and horse bean, fodder beet, Jerusalem artichoke,
Forage crops:
Herbaceous, shrubby, arboreous forage crops; amelioration of the pasture-lands; fodder offer; harvest, conservation and forage utilisation. Prealps, Alps, Apennine and Isles and seaboard land natural meadow, grazing meadow and pastures.