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Course code: ROSS10178f14Semester: 2014/2015 winter
Name: Fertilization advisory
Major: Horticulture
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 7
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Piotr Chohura
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Knowledge Students will get theoretical and practical knowledge about nutritional requirements of horticultural plants. Has knowledge of the importance of mineral nutrition on the level and quality of crops. He knows how individual elements affect the growth of plants, which can cause deficiency or excess of individual ions. He knows the method of application of fertilizers and their effects on plants and the environment. Skills Student is able to recognize the symptoms of nutrient deficiency and to interpret the results of analyzes of soils, substrates, water, nutrients and plant material. Able to calculate the dose of fertilizer and crop fertilization develop a strategy based on the results of the analysis. He can choose the optimum fertilization technique to the requirements of plants and cultivation technology. Able to calculate the composition of the nutrient solution and change the pH of soils and growing media.
Competences: The student is able to work independently and in a team, able to shape and adapt cultivation technology to produce horticultural products of high biological value in a way that is safe for the environment and people.
Prerequisites: Plant physiology, fertilization of horticultural plants, soils and growing media, horticultural crops cultivation.
Course content: Lectures: Legislation on fertilizers and fertilization and permissible content of pollutants in soils, plants and waters. Fertilizer advisory organization in Poland, some Western European countries and the USA. Research methods in analytical soil substrate, water and nutrients applied in Poland. Basics diagnosis horticultural fertilizer; differences in relation to other Western European countries. Nutritional requirements of horticultural and field crops under glass (greenhouses, plastic tunnels). Classes: Development of projects fertilization vegetables, ornamentals, seed, fruit and nursery in field crops and under cover. Growing plants in containers and the limited volume of the substrate. Modern technologies fertilization of crops in field and under cover. Inert substrates, soilless cultivation, hydroponics and aeroponics, closed systems, fertilization, fertigation horticultural plants, computer control systems, irrigation, fertilization and climate greenhouse. To elaborate programs of fertilization of plants grown in inert media.
Recommended literature: 1. Brian S Coulter and Stan Lalor. Major and micro nutrient advice for productive agricultural crops 2008, http://www.agresearch.teagasc.ie/johnstown/Nutrient%20Advice%203rd%20edition.pdf) 2. Cottanie A.. – Soil an plant testing as a basis of fertilization recommendation 1980,http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/ar118e/ar118e.pdf
Assessment methods: Knowlage: written test. Skills: elaboration of the project fertilization selected horticultural crops. Social competencies: assessment of work and exercises.
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