Urban Agriculture detailed syllabus for Instrumentation & Control Engineering (ICE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the ICE 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 Instrumentation & Control Engineering 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit ICE 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Open Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to ICE Open Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of urban agriculture is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1:
INTRODUCTION 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.
Module 2:
VERTICAL FARMING Vertical farming- types, green facade, living/green wall-modular green wall , vegetated mat wallStructures and components for green wall system: plant selection, growing media, irrigation and plant nutrition: Design, light, benefits of vertical gardening. Roof garden and its types. Kitchen garden, hanging baskets: The house plants/ indoor plants
Module 3:
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Module 4:
MODERN CONCEPTS Growth of plants in vertical pipes in terraces and inside buildings, micro irrigation concepts suitable for roof top gardening, rain hose system, Green house, polyhouse and shade net system of crop production on roof tops
Module 5:
WASTE MANAGEMENT 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:
- Demonstrate the principles behind crop production and various parameters that influences the crop growth on roof tops
- Explain different methods of crop production on roof tops
- Explain nutrient and pest management for crop production on roof tops
- Illustrate crop water requirement and irrigation water management on roof tops
- Explain the concept of waste management on roof tops
Text Books:
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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.Com/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.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Instrumentation & Control Engineering 7th Sem, visit ICE 7th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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