Mechanised vegetable crop production. Plant characteristics for mechanised crop production. Soil conditioning for vegetable production. Seed priming and enhancement. Fluid drilling. Direct sowing for crop establishment. Plug production. Mechanical transplanting. Plastic mulching in horticulture. New trends in vegetable crop production. Good agricultural practices in crop production. Tissue Culture technologies for crop improvement.
Cropping and production of high value horticultural crops in plastic tunnels, shade houses and greenhouses. Types of structures for protected cultivation and their characteristics. Greenhouse design and site considerations. Greenhouses and their operation.
Plant culture in hydroponics. Plant nutrition in Soilless Culture. Hydroponics media. Hydroponics systems. Cropping and production of selected vegetables, fruits and ornamentals in soilless culture systems: water culture systems and substrate culture systems. Hydroponics waste management. Aeroponics.
