Course

Theory

Origin and history, area and production, classification, improved varieties, adaptability, climate, soil, water and cultural requirements, nutrition, quality component, handling and processing of the produce for maximum production of:

Unit I

Rabi oilseeds – Rapeseed and mustard, Linseed and Niger

Unit II

Kharif oilseeds – Groundnut, Sesame, Castor, Sunflower, Soybean and Safflower 

Unit III

Fiber crops – Cotton, Jute, Ramie and Mesta.

Unit IV

Sugar crops – Sugar-beet and Sugarcane.

Practical

• Planning and layout of field experiments
• Cutting of sugarcane setts, its treatment and methods of sowing, tying and propping of sugarcane
• Determination of cane maturity and calculation on purity percentage, recovery percentage and sucrose content in cane juice, phenological studies at different growth stages of crop
• Intercultural operations in different crops
• Cotton seed treatment
• Working out growth indices (CGR, RGR, NAR, LAI, LAD, LAR, LWR, SLA, SLW etc)
• Assessment of land use and yield advantage (Rotational intensity, Cropping intensity, Diversity Index, Sustainable Yield Index, Crop Equivalent Yield, Land Equivalent ratio, Aggressiveness, Relative Crowding Coefficient, Competition Ratio and ATER etc)
• Judging of physiological maturity in different crops and working out harvest index
• Working out cost of cultivation of different crops
• Estimation of crop yield on the basis of yield attributes
• Formulation of cropping schemes for various farm sizes and calculation of cropping and rotational intensities
• Determination of oil content in oilseeds and computation of oil yield
• Estimation of quality of fibre of different fibre crops
• Study of seed production techniques in various crops
• Visit to field experiments on cultural, fertilizer, weed control and water management aspects
• Visit to nearby villages for identification of constraints in crop production

To learn the crop husbandry of oilseed, fiber and sugar crops