ELE HORT – 368: HI-TECH HORTICULTURE
Credit:3(2+1)
THEORY:
Introduction & importance; Nursery management and mechanization; micro propagation of horticultural crops; Modern field preparation and planting methods, Protected cultivation: advantages, controlled conditions, method and techniques, Micro irrigation systems and its components; EC, pH based fertilizer scheduling, canopy management, high density orcharding, Components of precision farming: Remote sensing, Geographical Information System (GIS), Differential Geo-positioning System (DGPS), Variable Rate applicator (VRA), application of precision farming in horticultural crops (fruits, vegetables and ornamental crops); mechanized harvesting of produce.
PRACTICAL:
Types of polyhouses and shade net houses, Intercultural operations, tools and equipments identification and application, Micro propagation, Nursery-protrays, micro-irrigation, EC, pH based fertilizer scheduling, canopy management, visit to hi-tech orchard/nursery
Practical (Experiments):
1) Tools and equipments, identification and application
2) Study of different types of polyhouses and shade net houses
3 & 4) Intercultural operations in high density orchards
5 & 6) Intercultural operations in vegetables and flowers
7 & 8) Plant architecture
9 & 10) Micropropogation of horticultureal crops
11 & 12) Hi-tech nursery production technique in protrays
13) Hi-tech Irrigation systems
14) Soil and water EC, pH measurement and fertigation
15) Precision farming techniques used in horticultural crops
16) Visit to hi-tech orchard/nursery