Crop Production Technology-I
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Dr. Tanmoy Shankar
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Course Name : Crop Production Technology-I
Course Code : ASAG 2103(2-1-0)
Course Objectives
To teach the students about crop husbandry of kharif cereals, pulses, oilseeds, fibres, millets and forage crops
CO-PO Mapping
| COs | Course outcomes | Mapping COs with POs |
| CO1 | After learning this course one would be able to gains the knowledge about crops | PO1 |
| CO2 | Students will understand climate and crop relationships. | PO2 |
| CO4 | Students can integrate facts, concepts and methods from the application and apply to solving crop production problems | PO3,PO4 |
PO1: Knowledge Enhancement
PO2: Professional Enhancement
PO3: Entrepreneurship Skills
PO4: Communication & Extension Skill
Course Syllabus
Theory
Origin, geographical distribution, economic importance, soil and climatic requirements, varieties, cultural practices and yield of Cereals – rice, maize, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet, pulses-pigeonpea, mungbean and urdbean; oilseeds- groundnut, and soybean; fibre crops- cotton & Jute; forage crops-sorghum, cowpea, cluster bean and napier.
Practical
- Rice nursery preparation and transplanting of rice
- Sowing of soybean, pigeonpea and mungbean. maize, groundnut and cotton
- Effect of seed size on germination and seedling vigour of kharif season crops
- Effect of sowing depth on germination of kharif crops
- Identification of weeds in kharif season crops
- Top dressing and foliar feeding of nutrients
- study of yield contributing characters and yield calculation of kharif season crops
- Study of crop varieties and important agronomic experiments at experimental farm
- Study of forage experiments; morphological description of kharif season crops
- Visit to research centre of related crops
Reference Books
Das, N.R. 2007.Introduction to crops of India.Scientific publishers, Jodhpur, India.
Rajendra Prasad. 2004. Text Book of Field Crop Production. Technical Editor, ICAR, New Delhi.
Reddy, S.R. 2004.Agronomy of Field Crops, Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
De Dutta, S.K. 1981. Principles and Practices of Rice Production.Johj Willey & Sons, New York.
Jeswani, L.M. &Baldev, B. 1997.Advances in Pulse Production Technology, ICAR, New Delhi.
Yadav, D.S. 1992. Pulse Crops. Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
GururajHunsingi and Krishna K.R. 1998.Science of Field Crops Production.
Mahendra Pal, Jayanta D. and Rai, R.K. 1996.Fundamentals of Cereal Crop Production. Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co.,New Delhi.
Singh,C., Singh,P. and Singh, R. 2003. Modern Techniques of Raising Field Crops. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
Session 14: pulse introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA7jXIqTq4g
Session 17: Oilseed introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsByZ_DbdKc
OIL SEEDS INTRODUCTION AND GROUND NUT 1
GROUND NUT 2
GROUND NUT 3
Session 18-21: Cotton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbYNf9vY5YU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHgNoSYlhYs
FIBRE CROPS- COTTON 1
COTTON 2
Session 31-32: Napier grass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvn7T5ElgjI
NAPIER
Practical Session 1-10
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Bachelor of Science (Agriculture). Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS), Allahabad, India in 2011 Master of Science (Agronomy). Visva Bharati University –(VBU), Birbhum, West Bengal, India in 2013 Research topic: Effect of seaweed extract on growth and productivity of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) in the red and lateritic belt of West Bengal PhD […]
