Crop Production Technology

Crop Production Technology

1 Cultural Practices

  1. Cultural Practices in Black Pepper
  2. Cultural Practices in Cardamom
  3. Cultural Practices in Tree Spices

2 Integrated Nutrients, Pests and Diseases Management

  1. Integrated Nutrient Management (INM)
  2. Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
  3. Integrated Disease Management (IDM) for Small Cardamom
  4. IDM for Large Cardamom
  5. IDM for Black Pepper
  6. Diseases of Tree Spices

3 Organic Spices and Good Agricultural Practices

  1. Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)
  2. Organic Certification
  3. Organic Spice Production

4 Cultural Practices

  1. Production and Management of Tea
  2. Climatic Requirements
  3. Planting Materials and Nursery
  4. Field Planting
  5. Shade Management
  6. Plucking
  7. Pruning

5 Nutrient Management

  1. Tea Growing Soils
  2. Principles of Manuring
  3. Plant Nutrients
  4. Factors Affecting Utilization of Nutrients
  5. Use of Plant Growth Regulators in Tea

6 Plant Protection Measures

  1. Pests of Tea and their Control
  2. Diseases of Tea and their Control
  3. Weed Management in Tea
  4. Plant Protection Equipment
  5. Pesticide Residues

7 Organic Tea

  1. Relevance of Organic Tea Cultivation
  2. Establishment and Maintenance of Organic Tea Plantations
  3. Conversion of Plantations
  4. Maintenance of New and Established Plantations
  5. Post Harvest and Manufacturing Practices

8 Agro-climatic Requirements

  1. Ideal Agro-climatic Conditions
  2. Rubber Growing Regions of India

9 Nursery and Planting Materials

  1. Propagation Methods
  2. Rubber Nursery
  3. Brown Budding
  4. Green Budding
  5. Factors Influencing Successful Bud Grafting
  6. Advantages and Disadvantages of Green Budding over Brown Budding
  7. Budded Stumps Nursery
  8. Root Trainer Plants- A Novel Propagation Technique for Hevea
  9. Planting Materials

10 Planting and Cultural Operations

  1. Soil
  2. Planting
  3. Cultural Operations
  4. Nutrient Management

11 Crop Protection

  1. Diseases of Rubber
  2. Leaf Diseases
  3. Pests of Rubber
  4. Plant Protection Equipment

12 Agro-climatic Conditions

  1. Present Status of Indian Coffee Industry
  2. Coffee Growing Regions and Countries
  3. Soils for Coffee in India
  4. Shade/Light Requirement for Coffee in India
  5. Climatic Requirements for Arabica Coffee
  6. Climatic Requirements for Robusta Coffee
  7. Adverse Climatic Factors and Commercial Coffee Production

13 Nursery and Planting Materials

  1. Propagation of Coffee
  2. Seed propagation
  3. Vegetative propagation
  4. Coffee Varieties
  5. Arabica varieties
  6. Robusta varieties

14 Planting and Cultural Operations

  1. Establishing New Plantation
  2. Land preparation
  3. Line marking
  4. Spacing
  5. Pits for planting
  6. Field planting
  7. Establishment of young coffee
  8. Shade and Shade Management
  9. Bush Management
  10. Training
  11. Pruning
  12. Cultural Management
  13. Nutrient management
  14. Soil cultivation
  15. Weed management
  16. Drought management
  17. Management of physiological disorders
  18. Harvesting

15 Crop Protection

  1. Pest Management
  2. Coffee white stem borer
  3. Coffee berry borer
  4. Mealybugs and other sucking pests
  5. Coffee root lesion nematode
  6. Minor pests
  7. Disease Management
  8. Coffee leaf rust
  9. Black rot of coffee (Koleroga disease)
  10. Root diseases
  11. Coffee trunk canker
  12. Anthracnose
  13. Nursery diseases
  14. Minor diseases

16 Organic Coffee

  1. Global Organic Coffee Scenario
  2. Organic Coffee Situation in India
  3. Establishment and Management of New Organic Coffee Plantations
  4. Conversion of Established Plantations into Organic Coffee and their Management
  5. Post-harvest Processing of Organic Coffee
  6. Certification of Organic Coffee
  7. National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP)

17 Cultural Practices and Nutrient Management of Coconut

  1. Origin and Distribution, Climatic and Soil Requirements
  2. Botany and Varieties
  3. Nursery and Sowing
  4. Preparation of Land and Planting of Seedlings
  5. Shading, Weeding and Drought Management
  6. Nutrient Management
  7. Water Management
  8. Inter and Mixed Cropping
  9. Yield of Nuts

18 Cultural Practices and Nutrient Management of Cashew

  1. Soil and Climatic Conditions
  2. Planting Materials
  3. Field Planting
  4. Cultural Practices
  5. Management of Senile Plantations
  6. Nutrient Removal and Response to Nutrients
  7. Fertilizer Scheduling and Application
  8. Organic Nutrition and INM

19 Plant Protection of Coconut and Cashew

  1. Diseases of Coconut
  2. Pests of Coconut
  3. Pests of Cashew
  4. Diseases of Cashew