{"id":19877,"date":"2019-12-10T06:18:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T06:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/sustainable-agriculture-and-food-security-agri-6th-sem-syllabus-for-be-2017-regulation-anna-univ-professional-elective-iii\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T06:18:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T06:18:21","slug":"sustainable-agriculture-and-food-security-agri-6th-sem-syllabus-for-be-2017-regulation-anna-univ-professional-elective-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/sustainable-agriculture-and-food-security-agri-6th-sem-syllabus-for-be-2017-regulation-anna-univ-professional-elective-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Agri 6th Sem Syllabus for BE 2017 Regulation Anna Univ (Professional Elective III)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annauniv.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Univ<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>For all other agri 6th sem syllabus for be 2017 regulation anna univ you can visit <a href=\"..\/agri-6th-sem-syllabus-for-be-2017-regulation-anna-univ\">Agri 6th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 regulation Anna Univ Subjects<\/a>. For all other Professional Elective III subjects do refer to <a href=\"..\/professional-elective-iii-agri-6th-sem-syllabus-for-be-2017-regulation-anna-univ\">Professional Elective III<\/a>. The detail syllabus for sustainable agriculture and food security is as follows.<\/p>\n<p><h4>Course Objective:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>To study the importance of sustainable agriculture for the growing population, various resources required and their sustainability.<\/li>\n<li>Importance of science, food security and ecological balance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><h4>Unit I<\/h4>\n<p>For complete syllabus and results, class timetable and more pls <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=ini.istudy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download iStudy<\/a>. Its a light weight, easy to use, no images, no pdfs platform to make students life easier.<\/p>\n<p><h4>Unit II<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Water Resource and its Sustainability<\/strong><br \/>\nRainfall forecasting &#8211; Adequacy of Rainfall for crop growth &#8211; Rainfall, Drought and production instability &#8211; Irrigation potential &#8211; Available, created and utilized &#8211; River basins; Watersheds and Utilizable surface water &#8211; Utilizable water in future (Ground water and Surface water)\n<\/p>\n<p><h4>Unit III<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming<\/strong><br \/>\nAgro-ecosystems &#8211; Impact of climate change on Agriculture, Effect on crop yield, effect on Soil fertility &#8211; Food grain production at State Level &#8211; Indicators of Sustainable food availability -Indicators of food production sustenance &#8211; Natural farming principles &#8211; Sustainability in rainfed farming &#8211; organic farming &#8211; principles and practices.\n<\/p>\n<p><h4>Unit IV<\/h4>\n<p>For complete syllabus and results, class timetable and more pls <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=ini.istudy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download iStudy<\/a>. Its a light weight, easy to use, no images, no pdfs platform to make students life easier.<\/p>\n<p><h4>Unit V<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Polices and Programmes for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security<\/strong><br \/>\nFood and Crop Production polices &#8211; Agricultural credit Policy &#8211; Crop insurance -Policies of Natural Resources Use &#8211; Policies for sustainable Livelihoods &#8211; Virtual water and trade -Sustainable food Security Action Plan.\n<\/p>\n<p><h4>Course Outcome:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Upon completion of this course, the students will gain knowledge on the need for sustainable agriculture<\/li>\n<li>They will be able to comprehend the need for food security on global level and the Nutritional Security.<\/li>\n<li>The students will be able to demonstrate how ecological balance is required for sustainability of agriculture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><h4>Text Books:<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>B.K.Desai and Pujari, B.T. Sustainable Agriculture : A vision for future, New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Saroja Raman, Agricultural Sustainability &#8211; Principles, Processes and Prospects, CRC Press, 2013<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><h4>References:<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Swarna S.Vepa etal., Atlas of the sustainability of food security. MSSRF, Chennai, 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Sithamparanathan, J., Rengasamy, A., Arunachalam, N. Ecosystem principles and sustainable agriculture, Scitech Publications, Chennai, 1999.<\/li>\n<li>Gangadhar Banerjee and Srijeet Banerji, Economics of sustainable agriculture and alternate production systems, Ane Books Pvt Ltd., 2017<\/li>\n<li>M.S.Swaminathan, Science and sustainable food security, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2010.<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Agri, 2017 regulation do visit <a href=\"..\/category\/agri+6th-sem\">Agri 6th Sem syllabus for 2017 Regulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dont forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=ini.istudy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download iStudy<\/a> for latest syllabus and results, class timetable and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6th-sem","category-agri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirenignite.com\/anna-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}