Culturas Arvenses I

Arable crops include cereals, root crops, oilseeds and protein crops, and other crops, with great importance for human consumption and use in the animal feed industry. In this curricular unit we try to better understand how the arable crops grow in the country or in a particular area, especially in the autumn-winter season, and is provided to the student an overview of europe and the world. In that sense, the syllabus of the curricular unit were established in accordance with the defined learning objectives.

The main objectives of the Arable Crops I are that the students have to acquire the following competences:
1. Assess the importance of autumn-winter arable crops in Portugal and in the world;
2. Know the main arable crops grown in autumn and winter;
3. Evaluate particular and current situations of arable crops, in the autumn and winter season;
4. Focus on the management of arable crops, in the autumn and winter season, on a sustainable development perspective

The contents are organized in modules:
Module 1 (65%):
Main sites of production of arable crops in autumn-winter in Portugal and foreign.
Cultivated areas yields and incomes.
Obstacles at national and international level.
Crop identification at different stages of their growth cycle.
Growing cycle and crop cycle: application to the studied cultures.
Main requirements of crops and their cultivation techniques.
Module 2 (35%):
Characterization of important situations of arable crops in autumn-winter.
Critical appreciation of cultural options followed.
Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the final production of arable crops on autumn-winter.
Sustainable strategies to obtain a given final product.
Prospects for the future, in a viewpoint of sustainable development.
Impacts of chosen strategies.

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