305346 (v.1) Vegetable Production 502

Area:	Muresk Institute
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	2 x 2 Hours Quarterly
Fieldwork:	2 x 2 Hours Quarterly
A broad approach to the production and post-harvest handling of vegetables. The economic importance of vegetable crops and their role in human nutrition, classification. Site selection. Propagation, planting, establishment, growth and development of crops. Crop management including rotation, irrigation, nutrition, and crop protection. Harvesting, handling, mechanisation and post-harvest physiology. Production and protection of specific vegetable crops from the following groups Brassica, Solonaceous, Cucurbits and bulbs.
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