Fundamentals of Agronomy | B.Sc. Ag 1st Semester Notes

Agronomy and its scope

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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