Principles of Crop Production detail TNDTE Diploma syllabus for Agricultural Technology (AG), M scheme is extracted from TNDTE official website and presented for diploma students. The course code (32332), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below. The syllabus PDFs can be downloaded from official website.
For all other agriculture 3rd sem syllabus for diploma m scheme tndte you can visit Agriculture 3rd Sem Syllabus for Diploma M Scheme TNDTE Subjects. The detail syllabus for principles of crop production is as follows.
Rationale:
The course is so designed to learn more about the recent advances made in crop production techniques for the crops prescribed vig., rice, sugarcane, cotton, groundnut, coconut and horticultural crops like Fruits and vegetables.
Objectives:
- Tstudy the importance of rice and its cultivation techniques.
- Timpart knowledge on the agronomic advancements of sugar yielding crop viz sugar cane.
- Tstudy the cultivation details with reference teconomically important fibre crop viz cotton
- Tunderstand the importance of oil seed crops and cultivation techniques for ground nut and coconut.
- Tstudy the importance of fruit crops in human nutrition and tknow the cultivation techniques of mango, banana and grapes.
- Tstudy the importance and cultivation details of common vegetable crops viz, brinjal, tomato, chillies and bendi.
Unit I
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Unit II
Rice
Rice – soil and climatic requirement, seasons and varieties -Methods of sowing – nursery preparation and management, seed rate, pretreatment of Seeds- application of organic manure to the nursery -Forming nursery beds – Sowing – Age of seedlings -pulling out seedlings -main field preparation – transplanting -deficiency symptoms for major and micronutrients – correction -manures and manuring – time and method of fertilizer application – bio fertilizers – green and green leaf manuring -water management – weed management – pest and disease management -Harvesting – Systematic Rice Intensification (SRI) – Post Harvest technology.
Sugarcane
Soil and climatic requirements – main field preparation -sett rate – sett treatment – planting techniques – gap filling -manures and manuring – Water management weed management – after cultivation practices – earthing up-Detrashing and propping – pest and disease management -use of cane ripeners – harvesting – Ratoon Management -Systematic Sugarcane Intensification (SSI)
Unit III
Cotton, Groundnut And Coconut Cotton
Soil and climatic requirements – season and varieties – fields preparation seed rate – seed treatment – sowing – gap filling -thinning – manures and manuring – water management – weed management – pest and disease management -harvesting – rice fallow cotton cultivation – post harvest technology.
Groundnut
Soil and climatic requirements – season and varieties – field preparation – seed rate – seed treatment – sowing -Intercropping – manures and manuring – Gypsum application -Earthing up – weed management – water management – pest and disease management – Harvesting – Post harvest technology.
Coconut
Soil and climatic requirements – seasons – varieties -preparation of nursery -planting techniques – manures and manuring – irrigation – weeding – pest and disease management – harvest and post harvest technology.
Unit IV
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Unit V
Horticultural Crops – Vegetables
- Brinjal
- Tomato
- Chillies
- Bhendi
Varieties – soil – season of sowing and planting – nursery raising – preparation of field – fertilizer management – irrigation – use of PGR’s -types of styles – yield – harvesting.
Varieties – soil – seed – nursery – season of sowing and planting – nursery raising – preparation of field – planting -fertilizer management – irrigation – maturity index – Harvesting and yield – seed extraction.
Varieties – soil – Season of sowing – nursery and planting -preparation of field – fertilizer – irrigation – weed control – growth regulators – Harvesting and yield .
Varieties – soil and climate – season and sowing – preparation of field – fertilizer-irrigation – application of PGR’s – Harvesting and yield.
Reference Books:
- Handbook of agriculture – ICAR, Publication – New Delhi.
- Handbook of Horticulture – ICAR. Publication – New Delhi.
- Crop Production Techniques for Horticultural crops – TNAU, Coimbatore.
- Crop Production guide – Directorate of Agriculture – Chepauk, Chennai. Ahlawat, I.P.S., Prakash O.M. and Saini. G.S. 1999.
- Scientific crop production India. Aman publishing house, madhu market, Budhana Gate, Meerut.
For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Agriculture, M scheme do visit Agriculture 3rd Sem syllabus for M scheme.
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