ECTS
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Course details
Course code: RSSN10241o12Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Principles of agricultural production I
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 27 / 27 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Lesław Zimny
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student receives skills to assess the effect of environmental and agrotechnological factors on soil degradation.
Competences: After passing the course student is able to take a job connected with protection of agricultural environment.
Prerequisites: soil science, botany, plant physiology
Course content: Knowledge about habitat. Soil diseases. Agricultural properties of ploughland as a soil degradation indem. Ecological and productive results of simplifications in tillage. Conservation tillage. Antierosion tillage. Negative and positive meaning of weeds. Functions of crop rotations in modern agriculture.Crop rotation diseases. Specialized crop rotations. Criteria of crop rotation assessement. Agrotechnological methods of soil protection under intensive soil management. Problem of fallows.Pro-organic agricultural systems. Polish Code of Good Agricultural Practice.
Recommended literature: 1.Polski Kodeks Dobrej Praktyki Rolniczej. Gleba – woda – powietrze. IUNG, Puławy 1999. 2.Siuta J.: Gleba – diagnozowanie stanu i zagrożenia. IOŚ, Warszawa 1995. 3.Świętochowski B. i in.: Ogólna uprawa roli i roślin. PWRiL, Warszawa 1996.
Assessment methods: obligatory credit past 3 semester, written exam past 3 semester, minimum 60% of knowlege to pass
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