UNIVERSITY OT AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, RAICHUR

COLLEGE OFAGRICULTURE, RAICHUR

DEPARTMENT OF AGRONOMY
AGR-20I Crop I'roduction Iechnology-1 (Kharif erops) (2+1)
ISemester, 2024-25
II \ r B.Se. (Agri.),
Extended syllabus
SI.No. Contents
Importance of cercal:, iillcts, pulses, oilsecds and forage crops
Rice - Importance Oigin, distribution - classification, soil and climatic
requirement, season and varicties. Rice - growth stages, cultivation
practices: syslems of rice cultivation methods of sowing - nursery
preparation and managcment - seed rate, seed treatment and sowing. Rice -
main field preparalion for wet and dry cultivation, Methods of crop
2
establishment -Direct sowing under wet and dry condition - Transplanting,
plant density and guometry, management of aged seedlings. Nutrient
management in rice - manures and fertilizer application - time and method
of fertilizer application - application of biofertilizers - Azolla, Bluegreen
algae, Azospirillun and Phosphobacteria Rice irrigation water
management ,wec control - - after cultivation - cropping system
harvesting, threshing, ving,yieldand storage - by-products.
Maize - Importance, origin and distribution,classification- soil and climatic
requirerments -season, varietics - field preparation - sowing - manures and
3 fertilizer application - Maize - irrigation - weed control after cultivation -
harvest, threshing, rying,storage and yield -Agronomic practices for Baby
corn - cropping s"
Sorghum: Import:lil, rigin, distribution, classification, soils and climatic
requirement. Varicties, seed hardening and seed treatmernt cultivation
4 practices: Land pre:naration, sowing, manure and fertilizer application.
Water managen. rced management, Ratooning, Bad qualities of
sorghumn harvestin: niyield. Sweet sorghum
Millets: Fingerat - Importance - origin and distribution - soil and
climatic requiren n: -ason, varieties - nursery - seecds and sowing - main
5 iield preparation nd planting manures and fertilizer application - weed
Control - after cullivation - irrigation harvest and and yield storage
Agronomic praclo rainfed crop - cropping system
Pearl millet - : Drtnce - origin and distribution - soil and climatic
requirements -sc , ricties - nursery - seeds and sowing main field
6 reparation and Pearl millet - manures and fertilizer application -
irrigation weed i- after cultivation -harvest , yield and storage
^gronomicpracl rainfed pearl millet - cropping system.
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7
vesting
yield.andmanureSesamum:
requirement, manure
harvesting
yield.
requirement,
and Soybean:
harvestingmanure
yield.
requirement, constraints
and Importance,
Groundnut:
origin,Oilseeds:
control
preparation
Mothbean: storage. varieties
application Cowpea fertilizer
and varieties
Blackgram:fertilizer
varieties
harvesting
andGreengram: manure
requirement,
Pigeonpea: Pulses:
constraints -haraka
processing
application
Importance
varieties Minor
and processing
and and after -
Importance, Importance, Importance
and -fieldapplication,
and Cultivationapplication,
Cultivation and Importance (Kodomillets
fertilizer
varieties. fertilizer
varieties. fertilizer Importance
origin
- - - Importance, and and - - -
cultivationseecds
varieties, methods weed Horse
preparation and
Importance, Importance,
fertilizer weed field
origin
and processingvarieties. methods such
and control yield. yield. control-millet),andsave as
pplication application application, of gram
water
practices. practices.
preparation
of
Cultivationorigin Cultivationorigin Cultivation to sowing origin,
water application,
Oodalu
increaseoilseed -
irrigation- origin, Cultivation
and origin, to pulsedistribution
importance - -
-management, increase after
and and afterseeds management, yield. -
(Little
distribution, - and distribution,
Land distribution,
Land distribution,
Water Water history, Water production manures production
cultivationseeds
(BarnvardDil et)-
history, practices: oilseed water pulse -
practiçes: practices: harvest
distributioncultivalion and practices: soi l
preparation,
- preparation, and millet)
agemeint, management, management, production. aud
management, production. and sowingorigin
-
distribution, distribution, classification, inand
weed soils weed soils
classification, sowing
in
harvest and
Land Land Land fertilizer Land climalic
India,
storage. -scason,irrigation -management, -and and and India,
manures
management, baragunavane
preparation, preparation, distribution sowing, climatic sowing, and
-Imanures
preparation,
weed weed weed oilseed
application
climaticpreparation,
weed requirement
Pulseyield.
soils soils soil (Foxtail
(Proso
soil varieties -
-and
gement, management, management,
and harvest manure
requircment, manuremananent,
requirment, and and
and and
production harvcsting harv prodction
fertilizer -
climatic flizer milet- iict
climatic
sowing, sowing,
climatic climatic
sowing, - season, sowing, icaSon
weed field and
Csting and
and ) ),-
 DcOr: Importarncc, origin and historv, distribution, soils and climatic
19 Tequrement, varictics .Cultiva tion practices: Land preparation, SOWing
anure and fertilizer application Water management, weed management,
harvesting and yicld.
Niger: Importance, origin and history, distribution, soils and climatic
20 requirement, varietics. Cultivation practices: Land preparation, sowing
manure and fertilizer application Water management, weed management,
harvesting and yicld.
l'orage crops: Importance of fodder production in India, Fodder production
21
Reasons for shortage of fodder and remedies suggested for developing
iodder resources. Characteristics of cereal fodder such as maize, sorghum
and pearl millet -aronomic practices -harvest -biomass production (fodder
yield)
22 I.egume fodder: Importance, characteristics of legume fodder such as
Cowpea, -agronomicpractices -harvest -biomass production (fodder yield)

(Dr. Parameshnaik, C.)