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.
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 (mango); underutilized species.