| Principles of land suitability evaluation, qualitative land evaluation methods, development and application of quantified land evaluation methods to maintain and/or improve soil quality. Soil and plant nutrients, nutrient flows in soils and plants, nutrient budget and balance, organic and inorganic fertilisers management, crop residues management, green manure crops, crop rotation, deficiency symptoms of plants, plant nutrients and their availability to plant uptake, role of soil organic matter on nutrient availability, calculation of optimum NPK fertiliser rates at a given soil nutrient budget (using specific software), interactions between N, P and K during uptake and growth; optimum N:P:K fertilisation ratios from economic and an environmental point of view. Bioremediation. Soil biogeochemistry. Wetlands and their management. Soil pollution: fertiliser and pesticide in the environment. Soil erosion by wind and water, including coastal erosion, and their control practices. Solid and Liquid Waste Management in soil: handling, treatment and disposal. Landfill technology and Septic tank. Impact of Solid waste in soil. Land Resources of Mauritius and Rodrigues. Ramsar Convention. Land management practices. Land resource planning. Field equipment and impact of mechanisation on land. Land Information Systems. Land Information Management Systems. The institutional set-up. Economics of land development. |
Administrative assistant: Kajol Jogarah
Telephone: 4037400
Email: k.jogarah@uom.ac.mu |
