Soil-Water Conservation & Land Reclaimation Engg detail BTEUP Diploma syllabus for Agricultural Engineering, effective from 2018, is collected from BTEUP 2017 Syllabus official website and presented for diploma students. The course details such as exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below. The syllabus PDFs can be downloaded from official website.
For all other agricultural eng 6th sem bteup diploma syllabus 2018 you can visit Agricultural Eng 6th Sem BTEUP Diploma Syllabus 2018 Subjects. The detail syllabus for soil-water conservation & land reclaimation engg is as follows.
Rationale:
This course is aimed to equip the learner with knowledge and skill required for taking effectinve measures against soil errosion,construction and maintenance of water conservation structures and development of land for irrigation and agricultural purposes. The contents of the subject have been developed to inculcate capabilities for performing the above mentioned task economically and effectively.
DETAILED CONTENTS
1. WATER SHED MANAGEMENT :
Concept, objectives, use of remote sensing in water shed management, Planning, Ground water recharging, Water harvesting.
2. RUN OFF & Hydrology :
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3. SOIL EROSION
Mechanics, types and causes of erosion, factors affecting erosion, damages caused by soil erosion.
4. SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
Definition and aims of soil and water conservation in agriculture, soil conservation servey and land use capability classification, conservation forming.
5. AGRONOMIC MEASURES FOR SOIL & WZATER CONSERVATION
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6. MECHANICAL METHODS OF EROSION CONTROL
Elementary idea of basin listing, sub-soiling, field bunding, contour bunding, graded bunding, ridge and channel terraces. Cost of narrow base broad base bund as earthwork and sadding cost.
7. CONSERVATION MEARURES FOR HILL SLOPES:
Contour trenching, specification of trenching, alignment and construction of trenches, , bench terracing- types, construction and maintenance, elementary idea of stone terracing and its specification.
8. GULLY EROSION CONTROL & RECLAIMATION:
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9. FORESTRY MANAGEMENT IN SOIL CONSERVATION:
Effects of forests on soil and water conservation and climate, classification of forests,elementary idea of farm and social forestry,Taungya system and forest protection, selection, development, tillage, irrigation protection and management of nurseries, Bamboo Production Methods.
10. GRASSED WATERWAYS:
Use, design of waterways, grasses for waterways, construction of water ways,establishment of grasses on waterways, maintenance of waterways.
11. DRY FARMING:
Definition, climetic classification, elementary idea of various crop management & tillage practices. Land management practices in dry farming eg. sub-soiling and tied ridging. Water shed based soil and water conservation.
12. WATER CONSERVATION RESERVOIRS:
Types and uses of water conservation reservoirs, site selection & storage capacity of farm ponds, design principles of water harvesting bunds and structures, digging of ponds, construction and maintenance of water conservation structures.
13. FLOOD CONTROL:
Types of flood, damages caused by floods,elementary idea of head water flood control methods.
14. Land Grading & Land Levelling:
Water harvesting, Scope, need types, long term and short term water harvesting techniques, design of ponds.
15. Wind Erosion Control:
Principles, vegetative and mechanical practices.
16. Land reclamation
Classification of usar soils, salt resistant crops, reclamation of usar soils. Reclamation of waste lands forest lands and sandy soils, sanddunes stabilization.
17. Ravine reclamation:
Classifcation of ravines and various measures for ravine reclamation.
18. Command Area Development :
Advantage and disadvantages, Command area development, Component of C.A.D.A., Various C.A.D.A. prgrammes in India.
19. Vermi Compost From Cowdung & Agricultural Waste
List of Experiments:
- Study of Rain gauges, their operation & installation.
- Computation of average rainfall depth over an area by symous raigauge.
- Study and use of float & currentmenter to measure runoff.
- Demonstration of various types of soil erosion.
- Preparation of land use capability map for a given area.
- Survey and planning of soil counservation measures in a given area.
- Cost estimation of bunding.
- Cost estimation of levelling of a field with slope either lengthwise or breadthwise.
- Cost estimation of digging of farm ponds of difinite dimensions.
- Study of layout and management of forest nurseries.
- Visit to various areas of soil-water couservation and land reclamation activities and structures.
- Construction of Vermi compost pit and its operation.
For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Agricultural Eng, effective from 2018 do visit Agricultural Eng 6th Sem BTEUP syllabus for 2018.
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