Herbaceous crops = Complete study materials and presentations of the professor, freely available at www.asatonline.com.
Tree crops = H Y Nakasone, Robert E. Paull, 1995.Tropical Fruits. CABI Publishing. 464 pp.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: management of tropical herbaceous (food and energy plants) and tree crops
Lessons of the professors, daily team work of the students and their presentations, field visits.
Further information
First year : All lessons at AICS (formerly IAO) (www.iao.florence.it) in town
Second year: at AICS or School of Agriculture (both in town) according to the curriculum chosen
Type of Assessment
Written test with questions and multivariate answers.
Course program
herbaceous crops : main food and energy crops, their botany, biology, ecology, agronomy, yields, harvesting, processing, utilization.
Tree crops : the Tree crops: productive aspects, marketing and problems. Origin, diffusion, morphology and physiology, genetic resources, breeding and cultivars, propagation and orchard management of model fruit tree species (avocado, mango); underutilized species.