| Department of Ecology Department of Agricultural Sciences 0 % Department of Plant Biology 0 % | |||||||||||||||||
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| Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 12 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | Joint BSc and MSc | ||||||||||||||||
| Examination | evaluation of project report Description of Examination: 13-point scale, internal examiner Project report counts 50% of the final grade. Student seminars on obligatory subjects count 25% of the final grade. Student seminars on project subjects count 25% of the final grade. | ||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | The course is only available in odd years. In even years, students ar welcome to write a term paper within the area (three disciplines combined) | ||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | outside schedule | ||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | Weed Science, Basic Plant Pathology, Agricultural, Horticultural or Forest Zoology | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. A thorough knowledge of the biology and ecology major pests, insects, diseases and weeds, of tropical and subtropical cropping systems. 2. A detailed understanding of the possibilities of prevention and control of those pests within a third world frame, with particular reference to the continuum from self supply to export marketing. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The course will deal with problems related to weeds, diseases and insect pests in different cropping systems. These will include e.g. staple crops, e.g. cereals and root crops, or other crops for local marketing. e.g. vegetables. Major export food and fibre crops are also included. A focus will be the growth potential for the weeds, insect pests and diseases including survival, establishing (e.g. biology of the infection phase) and dispersal in time and space. The course will also emphasise the preventing and controlling measures: Quarantine, resistant plant varieties, biological and chemical control, integrated strategies and agro forestry. After passing the course the student will be capable to producing suggestions for mainline strategies for plant protection and of evaluating such suggestions. Yield losses, increased perish ability and reduced quality due to plant diseases, arthropod pests and weeds are among the most serious constraints to the agricultural production in the tropics. Furthermore these problems are local elements of many projects financed by development aid. Accordingly an educational specialisation towards tropical agriculture must include a study of pests, diseases and weeds in tropical crops as well as an overview of preventing and controlling measures which are selected with due considerations of third world conditions. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The teaching is performed by lecturing and student seminars. Emphasis is placed on the personal activity and accordingly on seminars, which are supported by the supervision of individual students or project groups (such a group may include e.g. two or three people all working on the problems related to rice growing in SE Asia). The teachers give the obligatory subjects for student seminars. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||
| Peter Esbjerg, pe@life.ku.dk, Department of Agriculture and Ecology/Section of Zoology, Phone: 35332686 Eigil de Neergaard, edn@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Plant Pathology Section, Phone: 35333314 Jens Carl Streibig, jcs@life.ku.dk, Department of Agricultural Sciences/Crop Science, Phone: 35333457 | |||||||||||||||||
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