Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Agri 6th Sem Syllabus for BE 2017 Regulation Anna Univ (Professional Elective III) detail syllabus for Agriculture Engineering (Agri), 2017 regulation is collected from the Anna Univ official website and presented for students of Anna University. The details of the course are: course code (AI8008), Category (PE), Contact Periods/week (3), Teaching hours/week (3), Practical Hours/week (0). The total course credits are given in combined syllabus.
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Course Objective:
- To study the importance of sustainable agriculture for the growing population, various resources required and their sustainability.
- Importance of science, food security and ecological balance.
Unit I
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Unit II
Water Resource and its Sustainability
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 and Surface water)
Unit III
Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming
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 – Natural farming principles – Sustainability in rainfed farming – organic farming – principles and practices.
Unit IV
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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.
Course Outcome:
- Upon completion of this course, the students will gain knowledge on the need for sustainable agriculture
- They will be able to comprehend the need for food security on global level and the Nutritional Security.
- The students will be able to demonstrate how ecological balance is required for sustainability of agriculture.
Text Books:
- B.K.Desai and Pujari, B.T. Sustainable Agriculture : A vision for future, New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, 2007.
- Saroja Raman, Agricultural Sustainability – Principles, Processes and Prospects, CRC Press, 2013
References:
- Swarna S.Vepa etal., Atlas of the sustainability of food security. MSSRF, Chennai, 2004.
- Sithamparanathan, J., Rengasamy, A., Arunachalam, N. Ecosystem principles and sustainable agriculture, Scitech Publications, Chennai, 1999.
- Gangadhar Banerjee and Srijeet Banerji, Economics of sustainable agriculture and alternate production systems, Ane Books Pvt Ltd., 2017
- M.S.Swaminathan, Science and sustainable food security, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2010.
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