IT in Agricultural System 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 it in agricultural system is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
PRECISION FARMING Precision agriculture and agricultural management – Ground based sensors, Remote sensing, GPS, GIS and mapping software, Yield mapping systems, Crop production modeling.
Unit II
ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS Artificial light systems, management of crop growth in greenhouses, simulation of CO2 consumption in greenhouses, on-line measurement of plant growth in the greenhouse, models of plant production and expert systems in horticulture.
Unit III
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Unit IV
WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS Importance of climate variability and seasonal forecasting, Understanding and predicting world’s climate system, Global climatic models and their potential for seasonal climate forecasting, General systems approach to applying seasonal climate forecasts.
Unit V
E-GOVERNANCE IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS Expert systems, decision support systems, Agricultural and biological databases, e-commerce, ebusiness systems & applications, Technology enhanced learning systems and solutions, elearning, Rural development and information society.
Text Books:
- National Research Council, “Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century”, National Academies Press, Canada, 1997.
- H. Krug, Liebig, H.P. “International Symposium on Models for Plant Growth, Environmental Control and Farm Management in Protected Cultivation”, 1989.
Reference Books:
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Course Outcomes:
- The students shall be able to understand the applications of IT in remote sensing applications such as Drones etc.
- The students will be able to get a clear understanding of how a greenhouse can be automated and its advantages.
- The students will be able to apply IT principles and concepts for management of field operations.
- The students will get an understanding about weather models, their inputs and applications.
- The students will get an understanding of how IT can be used for e-governance in agriculture.
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.