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Course code: RSSS10198o12Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Principles of agricultural production II
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: Ireneusz Sosna, Katarzyna Adamczewska, Barbara Chrzanowska-Drożdż
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Students learn to recognize basic crops, fruit and vegetable cultivars based on their diagnostic features. He/she is able to plan and analyze treatements for a given crop management. The student learns to evaluate the effect of fertilization, weed and disease control, land cultivation, biogenes removal on environment as well as and flora and fauna deterioration. Students acquire knowledge on biological value of plants and their significance in human nutrition.
Competences: The student has knowledge of habitat and crop management affecting crop, fruit and vegetable yields
Prerequisites: Botanics, Soil Science
Course content: Historical and economic value of crops. Basic elements of crop production: forecrop, harvest method and harvest dates, seeding, organic and mineral fertilization, plant protection, yield harvesting, use of plant material for various purposes. Nutritional value of fruit and vegetable. Sensory and diagnostic evaluation of fruit. Evaluation of environmental hazards caused by crop management
Recommended literature: 1. Szczegółowa Uprawa Roślin 2003,. pod red. Z. Jasińskiej i A. Koteckiego Wyd. AR we Wrocławiu 2.Polskie Rolnictwo a Ochrona Środowiska 2004, Piotr Ilnicki, Wyd. AR w Poznaniu 3. Warzywnictwo, 2007 E. Kołota, M. Ormowski, A., Biesiada. Wyd. UWP 2007 4.Sadownictwo, 1995., Pieniążek Sz. Wyd. PWRiL
Assessment methods: Course credits, written exam, minimum knowledge to pass: 60%
Comment: 60% of course credits, 40% final exam.