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

  1. Rice nursery preparation and transplanting of rice
  2. Sowing of soybean, pigeonpea and mungbean. maize, groundnut and cotton
  3. Effect of seed size on germination and seedling vigour of kharif season crops
  4. Effect of sowing depth on germination of kharif crops
  5. Identification of weeds in kharif season crops
  6. Top dressing and foliar feeding of nutrients
  7. study of yield contributing characters and yield calculation of kharif season crops
  8. Study of crop varieties and important agronomic experiments at experimental farm
  9. Study of forage experiments; morphological description of kharif season crops
  10. 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 Plan

Session 1-2: Cereals – Rice

Session 3-4: Rice

Session 5-6 : Rice

RICE 5
RICE 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlLEHRJmsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqr8X7cp4WY&t=33s

Session 7: Maize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF43DJTU-As
MAIZE 1

Session 8: Maize

Session 9: Sorghum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2uh6WgIJXQ
SORGHUM 1

Session 10-11: Sorghum

Session 12: Pearl millet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=873-FecqW98
PEARL MILLET

Session 13: Finger millet

FINGER MILLET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao2mnMkqzR0

Session 14: pulse introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA7jXIqTq4g

PULSES INTRODUCTION AND PIGEON PEA 1PIGEON PEA 2

Session 15: Green gram

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aoq_ntxn-4
GREEN GRAM

Session 16: Black gram

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HUXEWXE5cY
BLACK GRAM

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

COTTON 3
COTTON 4

Session 22-25: Jute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO80IqgCTLo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_JjgaU5uq4
JUTE 1
JUTE 2
JUTE 3

Session 26-27: Forage crops

Session 28 : Forage sorghum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_EglHtWlyE
FORAGE CROPS 3 AND SORGHUM

Session 29: Cowpea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1cdG686PM
COWPEA

Session 30: Cluster bean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxm4ifosdOo
CLUSTER BEAN

Session 31-32: Napier grass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvn7T5ElgjI
NAPIER

Practical Session 1-10

Question Bank

question bank CPT I

Our Main Teachers

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 […]