Academic Programme and Curricula

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME AND CURRICULA DEGREE PROGRAMMES:

1. UNDER GRADUATION: The college of Horticulture, Mudigere is offering B.Sc. (Hort.) of 4 years duration and M.Sc. (Hort.) of 2 years duration under semester system. An enrolled student in order to earn the Bachelor’s degree shall complete 162 prescribed credit hours, out of which Horticulture courses consists of 119 credits, Natural Resource Management courses 23 credits and Agriculture & Allied sciences 20 credits including 2 credit hours of Non load courses. The duration of this degree programme is four years. First three years is exclusively meant for classroom teaching with practical components and the fourth year is exclusively meant for Horticultural Experiential Learning. The curricula shall include prescribed courses as under. U.G. Courses:

The list of courses approved for undergraduate degree programme is as follows:

Course No. Course title Credit hours I. HORTICULTURE SCIENCE a) FRUIT SCIENCE HRT 101 Fundamentals of Horticulture 2+1 FSC 201 Tropical and Sub-tropical Fruits 2+1 FSC 202 Temperate Arid and Minor Fruits 1+1 PSC 301 Breeding of Fruit Crops 1+1 HRT 201 Plant Propagation and Nursery Management 1+1 7+5 b) VEGETABLE SCIENCE VSC 101 Tropical and Sub-tropical Vegetables 2+1 VSC 201 Temperate Vegetables and Tuber Crops 2+1 VSC 301 Breeding and Seed Production of Vegetable Crops 2+1 HRT 301 Experimental Techniques in Horticulture 0+1 6+4 c) FLORICULTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FLA 101 Ornamental Horticulture 2+1 FLA 201 Principles of Landscape Architecture 0+1 FLA 202 Commercial Floriculture 2+1 FLA 301 Breeding and Seed Production of Ornamental Crops 1+1 FLA 302 Protected Cultivation 0+1 6+4 d) PLANTATION, SPICES, MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC CROPS PMA 101 Plantation and Beverage Crops 2+1 PMA 201 Spices and Condiments 1+1 PMA 202 Medicinal Crops 2+1 PMA 301 Breeding of Spice and Plantation Crops 1+1 PMA 302 Aromatic Crops 2+1 8+5 e) CROP IMPROVEMENT AND BIOTECHNOLOGY CIB 101 Introduction to Plant Biotechnology 1+1 CIB 102 Principles of Genetics and Cytogenetics 2+1 CIB 201 Principles and Methods of Plant Breeding 2+1 CIB 301 Principles of Seed Production in Horticulture Crops 1+1 6+4 f) HORTICULTURE CROP PROTECTION HCP 101 Fundamentals of Entomology 1+1 HCP 102 Fundamentals of Plant Pathology 1+1 HCP 201 Principles of Pest Management and Bee Keeping 2+1 HCP 202 Diseases of Fruit, Plantation and Spice Crops 1+1 HCP 301 Pests of Fruit, Plantation, Medicinal and Aromatic Crops 2+1 HCP 302 Pests of Vegetable, Ornamental and Spice Crops 1+1 HCP 303 Diseases of Vegetable, Ornamental, Medicinal and Aromatic Crops 2+1 10+7 g) POST-HARVEST TECHNOLOGY PHT 101 Principles of Food Technology and Nutrition 1+0 PHT 201 Post-harvest Management of Horticulture Produce 2+1 PHT 301 Processing of Horticulture Produce 2+1 5+2 II. NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENTS a) SOIL SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY SAC 101 Fundamentals of Soil Science 1+1 SAC 201 Soil and Plant Analysis 1+1 SAC 301 Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management 1+1 3+3 b) AGRONOMY AGR 101 Major Field Crops 1+1 AGR 201 Agricultural Meteorology and Water Management 2+1 AGR 202 Organic Farming and Sustainable Horticulture 1+1 4+3 c) AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AEG 201 Surveying Soil and Water Conservation Techniques 0+1 AEG 202 Farm Power, Machinery and Processing Equipment 1+1 d) FORESTRY 1+2 FOR 101 Introduction to Agro forestry 1+1 ENS 101 Environmental Science 1+1 2+1 e) AGRICULTURAL MICROBIOLOGY AMB 201 Soil and Applied Microbiology 2+1 III. ALLIED SCIENCES a) CROP PHYSIOLOGY CPH 101 Introductory Crop Physiology 1+1 CPH 201 Growth and Development of Horticultural Crops 1+1 2+2 b) AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION EDUCATION AEX 101 Fundamentals of Rural Sociology and Constitution of India 0+1 AEX 201 Fundamentals of Extension Education and Rural Development 1+1 AEX 301 Communication and Transfer of Technology 1+1 c) AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 2+3 AEC 101 Principles of Agricultural Economics 1+1 AEC 301 Horticulture Business Management 1+1 IV. AGRCULTURE STATISTICS 2+2 AST 201 Agricultural Statistics 1+1 V. BASIC SCIENCE BCH 101 Plant Biochemistry 1+1 CSC 101 Fundamentals of Computer Science 0+1 ENG 101 Comprehensive and Communicative English 1+1 2+3 ELH 401 Experimental Learning in Horticulture 0+20 RHW 402 Rural Horticultural Work Experience and All India Tour 0+20 VI NON-LOAD COURSES PED 101 Physical and Health Education 0+1 NSS 101 National Service Scheme 0+1

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Sl. No. Particulars Total 1 55 course credits (6 semester) 122+2 2 Experiential Learning 20 3 RHWEP 20 4 Total 162+2

2. Master Degree Programme: . The College of Horticulture, Mudigere is also offering Post Graduate in the following discipline. Disciplines Duration 1. Fruit Science 2. Floriculture and Landscape Architecture 3. Plantation, Spices, Medicinal and Aromatic 4 Semesters Crops 4. Horticultural Entomology 5. Vegetable Science 6. Crop Improvement and Biotechnology

Table-2: LIST OFCOURSE OF PG PROGRAM: A) FRUIT SCIENCE

Core Courses Sl. Course Title Course No. Credit hrs. No. 1 Tropical Fruits FSC-501 2+1 2 Sub-Tropical Fruits FSC-502 2+1 3 Temperate Fruits and nuts FSC-503 2+0 4 Growth and Development of fruit crops FSC 504 2+1 5 Breeding of Fruit crops FSC-505 1+1 6 Nutrition of Fruit crops FSC-506 2+1 Total 16 B. Optional Courses (Minimum 4 Credits) 1 Propagation and Nursery management for Fruit crops FSC-507 2+1 2 Canopy Management in Fruit crops FSC-508 1+1 3 Principles and Practices of Dry land Horticulture FSC-509 1+1 4 Orchard Management FSC 510 1+1 5 Principles and practices of water management in horticultural crops FSC 511 1+1 6 Organic production of Fruits crops FSC 512 1+1 7 Bio-diversity and Conservation of Fruit crops FSC-513 2+1 8 Bio-technology of Fruit crops FSC-514 1+1 9 Plant growth regulators in fruit crops FSC-515 1+1 10 Under exploited fruit crops FSC-516 1+1 11 Systematic Pomology FSC-517 1+1 12 GAP for Horticulture crops FSC-518 1+0 13 Climate change in Horticulture FSC-519 1+1 Total 28 B) : FLORICULTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Code Course Title Credits Core Courses FLA 501 Breeding of Flower crops and Ornamental Plants 2+1 FLA 502 Production technologies of cut flowers 2+1 FLA 503 Production Technologies for Traditional Flowers 2+1 FLA 504 Landscaping and Ornamental Gardening 2+1 FLA 505 Protected cultivation of on floriculture 1+1 FLA 506 CAD for outdoor and Indoorscaping 1+1 Total 16 Optional Courses (Minimum 4 Credits) FLA. 507 Nursery management and Commercial floriculture 2+1 FLA. 508 Turfing and turf management 1+1 FLA 509 Value addition in flowers FLA 510 Growth regulators in floriculture 1+1 FLA 511 Bulbous Ornamentals Plants 1+1 FLA 512 Minor flower crops 1+1 FLA 513 Indoor gardening, Bonsai and Flower arrangements 1+1 FLA 514 Weed management in flowers and ornamental crops 1+1 FLA. 515 Seed production of flower crops 1+1 FLA. 516 Bio Systematic s in Ornamental plants 0+2 Total 20

C) : PLANTATION, SPICES, MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC CROPS Sl. Code Course Title Credits No. A. Core Courses (16 credits) 1 PMA 501 Production technology of plantation crops (Palms, cashew and rubber) 2+1 2 PMA 502 Production technology of beverage crops 1+1 3 PMA 503 Production technology of major spice crops 2_1 4 PMA 504 Production technology of medicinal crops 2+1 5 PMA 505 Production technology of aromatic crops 2+1 6 PMA 506 Breeding of plantation, spices, medicinal and aromatic crops 1+1 Total 16 Optional Courses (Minimum 4 credits) 1 PMA 507 Production technology of minor spice crops 1+1 2 PMA 508 Organic Production of spices, Plantation, medicinal and aromatic crops 1+1 3 PMA 509 Bio-diversity of medicinal, aromatic and natural dye plants 1+1 4 PMA 510 Processing and quality analysis of medicinal and dye plants 1+1 5 PMA 511 Natural dye and bio-pesticidal plants 1+1 6 PMA 512 Production technology of under-utilized spices, medicinal and aromatic Crops 1+1 7 PMA 513 Propagation of spices, plantation, medicinal and aromatic crops 2+1 8 PMA 514 Biotechnology of spices, plantation, spices, plantation, medicinal and aromatic crops 1+1 9 PMA 515 Water management of spices, plantation, medicinal and aromatic crops 1+1 10 PMA 516 Nutrition of spices, plantation, medicinal and aromatic crops 1+1 11 PMA 517 Weed management of spices, plantation, medicinal and aromatic crops 1+1 12 PMA 518 Value addition, by-product utilization in spices, plantation, medicinal and aromatic crops 1+1 13 PMA 519 Cropping systems in spices, plantation, medicinal and aromatic crops 1+1 14 PMA 520 Extraction, storage and quality analysis of essential oils 1+1 Total 29 D) : HORTICULTURE ENTOMOLOGY Code Course Title Credits HET 501* Insect Morphology 1+1 HET 502* Insect Anatomy and Physiology 1+1 HET 503* Insect Systematics 1+1 HET 504* Toxicology of Insecticides 1+1 HET 505* Pests of Fruit and Plantation Crops 1+1 HET 506* Pests of Vegetable and Ornamental crops 1+1 HET 507* Pests of Spices, medicinal and aromatic crops 1+1 HET 508* Insect Ecology 1+1 HET 509** Principles of Integrated pest management 1+1 HET 510** Biological management of pests and weeds 1+1 HET 511** Postharvest Entomology 1+1 HET 512** General Acarology 1+1 HET 513# Insect vectors of Plant Pathogens 1+1 HET 514# Research Techniques in Entomology 0+1 HET 515# Plant quarantine measures 2+0 HET 516# Application of Biotechnology in pest management 1+1 HET 517# Insect Pathology 1+1 HET 518# Plant Resistance to Insects 1+1 HET 519# Soil Arthropods and their Management 1+1 HET 520# Vermiculture and Vermicomposting 1+1 HET 521# Vertebrate Pest Management 1+1 HET 522# Forest Entomology 1+1 HET 523# Economic Entomology 1+1 HET 524 Pests of Horticultural Crops 2+1

*Compulsory Courses; ** Minor Carouses; # Optional Courses E) : SUPPORTING COURSES AND CREDIT HOURS Code Course Title Credits AEC 513 Intellectual property management 2+0 AEC Commodity futures trading 1+0 514/AMC PFE 506 Food processing equipment and plant design 1+1 PFE 507 Fruits and vegetables process engineering 1+1 SWE 502 Design of farm irrigation systems 2+1 SWE 505 Soil and water conservation engineering 1+1 SWE 507 Watershed management and modelling 1+1 SWE 512 Control of pollution from solid wastes 2+0 AEX 502 Development communication and information management 1+1 AEX 503 Diffusion and adoption of innovations 1+1 AMC 509 International business 2+0 AMC 510 Agricultural and food marketing 2+1 AMC 511 Grading and quality control in agricultural and food industry 1+1 AMB 505 Amb 505 microbiological techniques 0+2 AMB 511 Industrial microbiology 1+1 ABM 512 Biofertilizer technology 1+1 ABM 513 Biology and production of mycorrhizae 2+1 AMB 515 Food microbiology 2+1 AMB 510 Soil microbiology 2+1 AGR 505 Agrometeorology and crop weather forecasting 2+1 AGR 514 Crop growth and yield analysis 1+1 API 507 Honey and bee products 1+1 API 508 Bee pollination and crop production 1+1 CPH 502 Principles of plant physiology-ii metabolic processes and growth regulation 2+1 CPH 508 Morphogenesis, tissue culture and transformation 1+1 CPH 512 Experimental techniques in plant physiology 0+1 CPH 513 Physiology of woody plants 2+0 EVS 502 Biodiversity and conservation 1+1 EVS Remote sensing and GIS application in biodiversity conservation 1+1 505/AEC 510/FOR506 EVS 511 Global climate change and environment 2+0 FSN 502 Principles of nutrition 3+0 FSN 503 Food analysis 1+0 GPB 507 Heterosis breeding 2+0 GPB 513 Breeding for quality traits 1+0 GPB 515 Germplasm collection, exchange and quarantine 1+0 GPB 516 Plant genetic resources utilization 1+0 BCM 501 Basic biochemistry 2+1 BCM 505 Biochemical techniques 1+2 SER 506 Non-mulberry sericulture 1+1 SAC 501 Analytical techniques in soil plant analysis 1+1 SAC 506 Soil fertility and nutrient management 2+1 SAC 509 Soil testing & fertilizer recommendation 1+1 SAC 510 Manures & fertilizers 1+1 FOR 505 Forest ecology and biodiversity conservation 2+1 FOR 509 Tree improvement 1+1 for 517 energy plantations and bio-fuels 1+1 HST 501 Statistical methods for applied sciences 1+1 HST 502 Experimental designs 1+1 ABSTRACT-01

Sl. No. Course work Master’s programme 1. Major subject a. Core courses 16 b. Optional courses 04 2. Minor subjects 09 3. Compulsory subject(s) 05 4. Non-credit compulsory courses 02 5. Seminar 02 6. Qualifying examination 02 7 Research 17 Total 55+2