Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security detailed syllabus for Agriculture Engineering (Agri) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Agri students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Agriculture Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Agri 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to Agri Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of sustainable agriculture and food security is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
SUSTAINABILITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES Land Resources of India, Population and land, Land utilization, Net Area Sown, changes in cropping pattern, land degradation. Rainfall forecasting – Adequacy of Rainfall for crop growth -Rainfall, Drought and production instability – Irrigation potential – Available, created and utilized -River basins; Watersheds and Utilizable surface water – Utilizable water in future (Ground water & Surface water)
Unit II
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Sustainable agriculture-definition. Agro-ecosystems – Impact of climate change on Agriculture, Effect on crop yield, effect on Soil fertility – Food grain production at State Level – Indicators of Sustainable food availability – Indicators of food production sustenance.
Unit III
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Unit IV
SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION FOR FOOD SECURITY Performance of Major Food Crops over the past decades – trends in food production – Decline in total factor productivity growth – Demand and supply projections – Impact of market force -Vertical farming – Controlled Environment Agriculture – Genetics diversity – GMO’s. Sustainable food security indicators and index – Indicator of sustainability of food Security.
Unit V
POLICES AND PROGRAMMES FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY Food and Crop Production polices – Agricultural credit Policy – Crop insurance -Policies of Natural Resources Use – Policies for sustainable Livelihoods – Virtual water and trade -Sustainable food Security Action Plan.
Text Books:
- M.S.Swaminathan, Science and sustainable food security, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2010.
- B.K.Desai and Pujari, B.T. Sustainable Agriculture: A vision for future, New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, 2007.
Reference Books:
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Course Outcomes:
- Understand methods to sustain land resources.
- Cognize approaches to sustain water resources and its utilization for agriculture and allied activities.
- Design and develop new, improved and sustainable systems of agriculture and allied activities.
- Understand new technologies for improving food security.
- Comprehend policies to achieve sustainable farming and food security.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Agriculture Engineering 6th Sem, visit Agri 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Agriculture Engineering results, visit Anna University Agri all semester results direct link.