Arable Crops II

The teaching methodologies used are intended to provide an effective knowledge transmission, and a climate of dialogue with students that encourages and consolidates the process of teaching and learning. In class explains the basics needed for the development of the syllabus and the acquisition of skills. We seek to student participation in adapting the concepts learned to solve specific situations. Study designs are presented and discussed in the classroom with the active and critical participation of teachers and students.

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

The contents are organized in modules:
Module 1 (65%):
Main sites of production of arable crops in Spring-summer 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 Spring-summer.
Critical appreciation of cultural options followed.
Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the final production of arable crops on Spring-summer.
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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