This document outlines the course plan for a class titled "Principal and Practices of Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management". The course is 3 credit hours and includes both theory and practical lectures. The theory portion covers 20 topics related to soil fertility and nutrient management over 31 lectures. The practical portion involves hands-on labs to determine various soil and plant nutrients over 14 lectures. Overall, the course provides a comprehensive overview of soil fertility concepts and nutrient management practices.
This document outlines the course plan for a class titled "Principal and Practices of Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management". The course is 3 credit hours and includes both theory and practical lectures. The theory portion covers 20 topics related to soil fertility and nutrient management over 31 lectures. The practical portion involves hands-on labs to determine various soil and plant nutrients over 14 lectures. Overall, the course provides a comprehensive overview of soil fertility concepts and nutrient management practices.
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Principal and Practices of Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management
This document outlines the course plan for a class titled "Principal and Practices of Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management". The course is 3 credit hours and includes both theory and practical lectures. The theory portion covers 20 topics related to soil fertility and nutrient management over 31 lectures. The practical portion involves hands-on labs to determine various soil and plant nutrients over 14 lectures. Overall, the course provides a comprehensive overview of soil fertility concepts and nutrient management practices.
This document outlines the course plan for a class titled "Principal and Practices of Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management". The course is 3 credit hours and includes both theory and practical lectures. The theory portion covers 20 topics related to soil fertility and nutrient management over 31 lectures. The practical portion involves hands-on labs to determine various soil and plant nutrients over 14 lectures. Overall, the course provides a comprehensive overview of soil fertility concepts and nutrient management practices.
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Course Title : Principal and Practices of Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management
Course Code : AGRON 512
Credit Hours : 3 (2+1) Lecture schedule – Theory
No. of Name of the Faculty
S. No. Topic lectures 1. Soil fertility and productivity concept, differences and 1 factors affecting 2. Features of a good soil management 2 3. Problems of supply and factors affecting availability 2 of nutrients 4. Relation between nutrient supply and crop growth 1 5. Organic farming - basic concepts and definitions 2 6. Criteria of essentiality of nutrients, essential plant 3 nutrients – their functions, nutrient deficiency symptoms 7. Transformation and dynamics of major plant nutrients 2 8. Preparation and use of farmyard manure, compost, 3 green manures, vermicompost, biofertilizers and other organic concentrations their composition, availability and crop response 9. Recycling of organic wastes and residue management 1 10. Soil less cultivation 1 11. Commercial fertilizers; composition, relative fertilizer 3 value and cost, fertilizer mixtures and grades 12. Crop response to different nutrients 2 13. Residual effects and fertilizer use efficiency; 2 agronomic, chemical and physiological methods 14. Methods of increasing fertilizer use efficiency 1 15. Nutrient interactions 1 16. Time and methods of manures and fertilizers 1 application 17. Foliar application and its concept 1 18. Relative performance of organic and inorganic 1 nutrients and economics of fertilizer use 19. Integrated nutrient management 1 20. Residue wastes in crops 1 Lecture Schedule – Practical Sr. No Topic No. of lectures 1. Determination of soil pH and soil EC 2 2. Determination of soil organic C 2 3. Determination of available N,P,K and S in soil 4 4. Determination of total N,P,K and S in soil 2 5. Determination of total N,P,K and S in plant 4 6. Computation of optimum and economic yield 2
