Definition of agriculture and agronomy - Factors affecting crop growth - climate and weather parameters - Soil fertility and productivity - tillage and tilth - objective and principles - different kinds of tillage - Organic farming - principles and practices Lab Experiments:
Acquiring skill on the organizational setup of the agricultural farm and studying basic requirements of crop production
Studies of climatic factors on crop growth - meteorological instruments

Seeds of varieties or hybrids - seed treatment - sowing and planting methods - Manures and fertilizers - source, nutrient contents and methods of application - Irrigation techniques for different soils and crops - Weeds - classification of weeds - principles and methods of weed management - Intensive cultivation - monoculture and multiple cropping - inter, mixed, relay, strip and multitier cropping. Lab Experiments:
Practicing different sowing / planting methods; fertilizers and irrigation methods
Practicing different weed management practices; cropping system in intensive or organic farming

Group of pests and diseases - Methods of control - Cultural, Physical, Chemical and Biological - Pest management in major crops - Organic way of plant protection. complex problems in plant protection Lab Experiments:
Study the integrated pest and diseases management practices

Package of practices for important field crops - rice, maize, sorghum, finger millet and small millets - Pulses - red gram, black gram, green gram, soybean. Lab Experiments:
To identify the damage symptoms of pest and diseases
Practicing cultivation operations of major cereal crops
Practicing cultivation operations of major pulse crops

Package of practices for groundnut, gingelly and sunflower, cotton, sugarcane. Modern techniques used to cultivate the major field crops and organic way of food production-Mode of spread of pest and diseases, Prophylactic measures to manage pests - mode of action of pesticides Lab Experiments:
Practicing cultivation operations of major oil seed crops
Practicing cultivation operations of cotton and sugarcane crop