LPLK10367U Tropical Crop Production
MSc Programme in Agricultural Development
MSc Programme in Agriculture
MSc Programme in Sustainable Development in Agriculture (Agris
Mundus)
The course focuses on capacity development in tropical crop
production. The students will be exposed to the major crop science
elements that are instrumental to a sustainable crop production,
optimizing the use of agrobiodiversity and land management
practices. Main disciplines are:
i. Agronomy with reference to tropical conditions.
Tropical crop physiology; crop genetic resources, agrobiodiversity
and breeding; timing of management; weed control; configuration
(spacing and inter cropping); and soil fertility.
ii. Tropical Crops
An overview of major tropical crops, their intrinsic properties and
their cultivation with special emphasis on small-holder conditions.
Cultivation and rotation of crops under unimodal and bimodal rainy
seasons.
iii. Cropping systems
Studies of small holder cropping systems under various
agro-ecological conditions in the dry and humid
tropics.
Provide students, having a BSc-level background in agricultural
sciences or equivalent, with a comprehensive understanding of the
properties of selected tropical crop species and their management
in tropical rainfed and irrigated agro-ecosystems. Focus is on
climate related production constraints, that is abiotic and biotic
stresses, and human endeavor to optimize crop production in
small-scale farming, within the context of poverty alleviation and
sustainable crop production.
When students have completed the course they should have attained:
Knowledge
- Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of tropical crop
production
- Understand the characteristics of major tropical crops
- Demonstrate overview of tropical cropping systems in relation to
agro-ecological and socio-economic conditions.
Skills
- Analyse and synthesize diverse types of information on tropical
crop production
-Design cropping calendars for selected major crops species
- Develop tropical crop production plans in relation to given
agro-ecological and socioeconomic conditions
- Design, implement and analyze research projects in a tropical
crop production environment
Competences
- Assess and formulate agronomic components of development support
programmes
- Advise extension and research institutions in tropical countries
- Do statistical and graphical analysis of field
experiments.
Papers uploaded on Absalon
Tropical Crop Production I - Selected papers
Tropical Crop Production II – Manual for practical and theoretical exercises
- Category
- Hours
- Exam
- 4
- Guidance
- 10
- Lectures
- 30
- Practical exercises
- 24
- Preparation
- 68
- Theory exercises
- 70
- Total
- 206
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 25 minDuring the course the student are participating in group work in which they write a group report (approximate 10 pages). The students are individual examined in the content of the group report and is further examined in the rest of course curriculum. Examination in the rapport weight 35 % and examination in curriculum weight 65 %.
- Exam registration requirements
Theoretical and practical excercise report submission
- Aid
- All aids allowed
NB: If the exam is held at the ITX, the ITX will provide computers. Private computer, tablet or mobile phone CANNOT be brought along to the exam. Books and notes should be brought on paper or saved on a USB key.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
One internal examiner
- Re-exam
If the student has not participated in the group report, an assignment is given three weeks before the exam. The student has to hand in an individual report based on the assignment (approximate 5 pages). The students will then be examined in the report and in the rest of the curriculum. Examination in the rapport weight 35 % and examination in curriculum weight 65 %.
Criteria for exam assesment
see learning outcome
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- LPLK10367U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 1
- Schedule
- C
- Course capacity
- No limitations
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Natural Resources and Environment
Contracting department
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Course responsibles
- Sven-Erik Jacobsen (4-84767b7251817d767f3f7c863f757c)