303393 (v.3) Vegetable Production 401

Area:

Muresk Institute

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

2 x 2 Hours Quarterly

Fieldwork:

2 x 2 Hours Quarterly

Syllabus:

A broad approach to the production and post-harvest handling of vegetables. The economic importance of vegetable crops and their role in human nutrition and 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 groups including Brassica, Solonaceous, Cucurbits and bulbs.

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Field of Education:

050100 Agriculture (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

10 - Agriculture

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External