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SYLLABUS AND COURSE BREAKUP 1st SEMESTER 1st YEAR B.Sc. (Ag.) 2016-17 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, BHUBANESWAR OUAT, BHUBANESWAR 0 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, BHUBANESWAR SYLLABUS AND COURSE BREAKUP 1st SEMESTER, 1st YEAR B.Sc. (Ag.) 2016-17 Sl Course No. Course Title Credit Hours No. 1. Hort-111 Fundamentals of Horticulture 2 (1+1) 2. AS-111 Statistical Methods 2(1+1) 3. AC-111 Fundamentals of Soil Science 3(2+1) 4. Fo(Ag)-111 Introduction to Forestry 2 (1+1) 5. SE-111 Comprehension & Communication Skills in English 2 (1+1) 6. AG-111 Fundamentals of Agronomy 4(3+1) BB-111/ Introductory Biology*/ 2 (1+1)*/ 7. BM-111 Elementary Mathematics* 2(2+0)* 8. AG-112 Agriculture Heritage* 1(1+0)* 9. EE-111 Rural Sociology and Educational Psychology 2(2+0) 10. EE-112 Human Values & Ethics (non gradial) 1(1+0)** NSS-111/ NSS**/ 11. NCC-111/ NCC**/ 2 (0+2)** PE-111 Physical Education & Yoga Practices** TOTAL 17+04*/03*+03** *R: Remedial course; **NC: Non-gradial courses I. AGRONOMY AG-111 - Fundamentals of Agronomy -Credit hours: 4(3+1) SYLLABUS Theory Agronomy and its scope, seeds and sowing, tillage and tilth, crop density and geometry, Crop nutrition, manures and fertilizers, nutrient use efficiency, water resources, soil plant water relationship, crop water requirement, water use efficiency, irrigation- scheduling criteria and methods, quality of irrigation water, water logging. Weeds- importance, classification, crop weed competition, concepts of weed management-principles and methods, herbicides- classification, selectivity and resistance, allelopathy. Growth and development of crops, factors affecting growth and development, plant ideotypes, crop rotation and its principles, adaptation and distribution of crops, crop management technologies in problematic areas, harvesting and threshing of crops. Practical Identification of crops, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and tillage implements, Effect of sowing depth on germination and seedling vigour, Identification of weeds in crops, Methods of herbicide and fertilizer application, Study of yield contributing characters and yield estimation, Seed germination and viability test, Numerical exercises on fertilizer requirement, plant population, herbicides and water requirement, Use of tillage implements-reversible plough, one way plough, harrow, leveler, seed drill, Study of soil moisture measuring devices, Measureme nt of field capacity, bulk density and infiltration rate, Measurement of irrigation water. 1 COURSE BREAKUP Principles of Agronomy (Theory) Class Topic Details # Agronomy and its 1 Meaning and scope of Agronomy. Agriculture and agronomy. Agronomy as scope an art, science and business Crop rotation and 2 Crop rotation- definition, principle, advantages, characteristics of crop principles rotation and examples Tillage and Tilth 3 Tillage- definition , objectives, advantages, tilth, types of tillage 4 Effect of tillage on soil properties, tillage implements, harvesting implements Seed and sowing 5 Plant propagation, Seed vs. seed materials, seed vs. grain, seed quality assessment, types of seed, seed treatment, breaking dormancy and extension of viability 6 Sowing; time, depth and spacing, types of sowing, sowing methods- broadcasting line sowing, drilling, planting, transplanting, thinning and gap filling Crop density and Plant population, plant population and growth, dry matter partitioning, geometry 7 response curve, optimum plant population, factors affecting optimum plant population. crop stand establishment, planting geometry and its effect on growth and yield. plant population in intercropping/paira/mixed cropping. competition for light, space, nutrients & moisture, plant interaction in mixed crop competition, allelopathy, annidation in space and time Growth and 8 Growth vs development, growth curve, photosynthesis, respiration, development of translocation of assimilates; plant growth substances. physiological growth crops components, growth analysis- LAI, LAD, CGR, RGR, NARetc 9 Factors affecting Crop growth and development, limiting factors, laws governing growth, yield analysis, yield attributes , limiting process, : phenology and phenophases Revision, discussion, model questions Plant ideotypes 10 Ideotype concept, ideotypevs plant type, morphological and physiological features, plant ideotype for rainfed and irrigated agriculture, ideotypes for different crops Crop nutrition 11 Essential elements, forms of essential elements absorbed by plants, criteria of essentiality, functional element, ballast element, classification of elements (amount of nutrient, mobility of nutrients, chemical nature of nutrients, functions in plant), sources of nutrients, losses of nutrients, function, source, deficiency and toxicity symptoms of essential elements, Nutrient uptake and absorption by plants-passive absorption( mass flow, diffusion, ion exchange-Donnan equilibrium, Carbonic acid exchange theory, contact exchange), active absorption-carrier concept, ion pump concept, protein synthesis hypothesis). Manures and 12 Definition, differences, organic manures, importance of organic manure, fertilizers and FYM and compost, green manures, biofertilisers and types, classification nutrient use of fertilizers depending upon number of nutrients, conc. of nutrients, efficiency physical form of nutrients, acidity and basicity of fertilizer, equivalent acidity, equivalent basicity, fertilizer grade, fillers, fertilizer ratio. nutrient use efficiency( physiological, agronomic) and recovery. ways to improve nutrient use efficiency in crops. Crop management 13 Management of crops in different problematic soil areas, physical constraints technologies in viz. soil crusting, swelling and shrinkage, eroded soils and waterlogged problematic areas soils, chemical constraints viz. acidity, iron toxicity, alkalinity, salinity 14 Management of crops in different adverse climate conditions like drought conditions, flooded condition and cyclone prone areas. Harvesting and 15 Maturity indices for different field crops and judging maturity, harvesting threshing of crops implements, threshing, drying, cleaning, bagging and storage Adaptation and 16 Crop ecology, adaptation and acclimatization and geographical distribution distribution of crops of cropsRevision, discussion, model questions 2 Principles of Agronomy (PRACTICAL) Class Topic Details # 01 Identification of crops, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and Aims and objectives, tillage implements Materials and equipments 02 Effect of sowing depth on germination and seedling vigour, required, 03 Study of yield contributing characters and yield estimation Principles and procedures 04 Seed germination and viability test followed, 05 Numerical exercises on fertilizer requirement, plant Observations recorded, population Calculation, 06 Use of tillage implements-reversible plough, one way Result interpretation, plough, harrow, leveler, seed drill Precautions Water management (Theory) Class Topic Details # Water resources 01 Water resources of India and Odisha .Surface and Ground water resources; Problems of water resources in India: spatial and temporal distribution; conflicting objectives of water resources development – increasing sectoral competition , 02 Irrigation in Indian agriculture: Importance of irrigation in Indian economy, medium and minor irrigation projects and. Irrigation potentials; Population, food grain requirement and irrigation requirements. .Irrigation improvement, Soil- plant- water 03 Soil-Water relationship: Soil as a system. Basic soil physical properties relationship influencing soil-water relationship Energy concept of soil water; Forces acting on soil water Soil water Tension and Soil water Stress; Soil Water potential concept: 04 Classification of soil water, Soil Water constants: . Soil water-tension relationship; Soil water retention, Available soil moisture 05 Infiltration: Movement of water in soils: Water movement in Saturated and Unsaturated soil, Movement of water from saturated to unsaturated soils, Water movement in vapour form in soils. 06 Role of water in plant; Water absorption by plants: Water in soil-plant- atmosphere system and it’s path way; Water absorption process,Water and plant process . Soil moisture extraction pattern Crop water 07 Water requirement of crops on demand basis & source basis; Effective requirement rainfall .Net and Gross irrigation requirement, irrigation period, Frequency and interval ; Duty and Delta relations. Water requirement of crops. Evapotranspiration 08 Evaporation, transpiration and evapotranspiration; Evapotranspiration and consumptive use; Evapotranspiration and crop growth; Types of evapotranspiration, ; Crop coefficients.Factors affecting evapotranspiration: Irrigation- 09 Objective and advantages of scheduling irrigation, Factors influencing scheduling criteria irrigation schedules . Approaches/criteria for scheduling irrigation, soil critera 10 Plant criteria and critical periods of water need, climatological approach- IW/CPE ratio approach Methods of 11 Methods of irrigation: surface irrigation methods: Wild flooding; Check irrigation: flooding, Basin flooding, Ring irrigation, Contour ditch irrigation, Border flooding ; Furrow flooding . subsurface irrigation. 12 Micro irrigation- sprinkler and drip irrigation; Components of drip and sprinkler system; Types of sprinklers and drips. Principles of selecting the systems, Water use 13 Introduction, Irrigation efficiencies, Water Use Efficiency, Crop WUE, Field efficiency WUE; Factors responsible for increasing/decreasing WUE, Measures to increase