Sugar Cane Agronomy: New Farming system as applied to cane industry. Industrial crop production. Environmental impacts of intensive crop production. Sustainable crop production. Conservation Agriculture. Agroforestry. New trends in vegetable crop production. Urban agriculture, green roofs, roof top gardening and vertical farming. Plastic mulching in horticulture. Good agricultural practices in crop production. 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 crops. Soilless culture systems: water and substrate culture systems. Hydroponics waste management. Aquaponics. Internet of things and applications to crop agriculture. Applications of sensor and climate smart agricultural technologies.
