AGRON – 111 : Fundamentals of Agronomy
Credit – 4 (3+1)
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UNIT – 1
Agronomy and its scope, seeds and sowing, tillage and tilth, crop density and geometry. Notes
UNIT -2
Crop nutrition, manures and fertilizers, nutrient use efficiency .Classification of crops.Agroclimatic zones of West Bengal. Notes
UNIT –3
Water resources, soil plant water relationship, crop water requirement, water use efficiency. Notes
UNIT –4
Irrigation – scheduling criteria and methods, quality of irrigation water, water logging. Notes
UNIT –5
Weeds – importance, classification, crop weed competition, concepts of weed management-principles and methods, herbicides- classification, selectivity and resistance,
allelopathy Notes
UNIT –6
Growth and development of crops, factors affecting growth and development. Notes
UNIT –7
Plant ideotypes, crop rotation and its principles, adaptation and distribution of crops, crop management technologies in problematic areas. Notes
UNIT –8
Harvesting and threshing of crops, principles of storage. Notes
Practical
Identification of crops, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and tillage implements, Effect of sowing depth
on germination and seedling vigour, Methods of fertilizer application, Study of yield contributing characters and yield estimation, Seed germination and viability test, Numerical exercises on fertilizer
requirement, plant population, Use of tillage implements-reversible plough, one way plough, harrow,
leveler, seed drill.
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