Urban Agriculture detailed syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Civil 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 Civil Engineering 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Civil 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Open Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to Civil Open Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of urban agriculture is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9 Benefits of urban agriculture- economic benefits, environmental benefits, social and cultural benefits, educational, skill-building and job training benefits, health, nutrition and food accessibility benefits.
Unit II
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Unit III
SOIL LESS CULTIVATION 9 Hydroponics, aeroponics, aquaponics: merits and limitations, costs and Challenges, backyard gardens- tactical gardens- street landscaping- forest gardening, greenhouses, urban beekeeping
Unit IV
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Unit V
WASTE MANAGEMENT 9 Concept, scope and maintenance of waste management- recycle of organic waste, garden wastes- solid waste management-scope, microbiology of waste, other ingredients like insecticide, pesticides and fungicides residues, waste utilization.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Martellozzo F and J S Landry. 2020. Urban Agriculture. Scitus Academics Llc.
- Rob Roggema. 2016. Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
- Akrong M O. 2012. Urban Agriculture. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.
Reference Books:
- Agha Rokh A. 2008. Evaluation of ornamental flowers and fishes breeding in Bushehr urban wastewater using a pilot-scale aquaponic system. Water and Wastewater, 19 (65): 47-53.
- Agrawal M, Singh B, Rajput M, Marshall F and Bell J. N. B. 2003. Effect of air pollution on periurban agriculture: A case study. Environmental Pollution, 126 (3): 323-329.https://www.sciencedirect.eom/science/article/pii/S0269749103002458#aep-section-id24.
- Jac Smit and Joe Nasr. 1992. Urban agriculture for sustainable cities: using wastes and idle land and water bodies as resources. Environment and Urbanization, 4 (2):141-152.
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