Course Number: AG084
Course Title: Basic Crop Production

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

General

During this course, the students will be given adequate information and taught skills to be able to apply efficiently crop production strategies for sustainable crop systems and provide alternative/optional solutions to farm level problems (challenges).

1. Students will learn and exercise farm safety
2. Students will know how to plan for the crops they work on
3. Students will learn different kinds of crops such as vegetable, fruits trees, root crops, and nutrient value
4. Students will learn soil properties and components
5. Students will learn the important relationship between roots and soil
6. Photosynthesis & plant growth
7. Nutrient cycles & water refinements

Specific

By the end of this course students will understand and exercise full knowledge of new techniques that will be taught during this course:

1. Utilize new techniques of growing crops such as crop rotation, crop sequences
2. Understand and exercise safe use of tools and chemicals as taught in farm safety
3. Understand important relationship between soil and roots
4. Understand the importance relationship between environment and plant growth
5. Understand the reason why deforestation is not good for the environment. Work with the environment not against it.
6. Students will know holistic farm management
7. Students will know how to budget and forward planning
8. Students will understand the importance of keeping records and interpretation of records