SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Offered By: State Bank of India via edX
Course Description
Overview
Many estimates indicate that the world population is going to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. This implies that food production is required to increase by 70% in order to meet the demand of such a huge population. Therefore, it is becoming very essential to take serious reforms in the agricultural sector to ensure that the food system is ready to meet the challenges of a burgeoning world population. Thus, the goal of sustainable agriculture is to feed expanding population while farming in an ecologically sound and regenerative way.
Hardships like droughts and inadequacy/scarcity of inputs essential for Agriculture, necessitate sustainable agriculture in long run. Despite the fact that contemporary agriculture generates massive amount of output within a harvest season, several devastating risks are witnessed which require sustainable farming practices for their mitigation.
This course explains various methods of sustainable agriculture to meet the aforesaid objectives necessary for many countries. It discusses various aspects pertaining to different farming systems in order to increase food production substantially to meet the demand of growing population. It also describes ecological farming practices based on scientific innovations for producing healthy foods.
Syllabus
Week 1
Overview of Sustainable Agriculture
Farming systems & Integrated farming systems
Week 2
Irrigation, water management including Rainwater harvesting
Polyculture, inter- cropping and crop rotation
Precision farming
Organic farming & Biodynamic farming
Week 3
Vermicomposting
Hydroponics and Aquaponics
Week 4
Agroforestry and food forests
Integrated and Natural pest management
Cover crops, Mulching and manual weed control
Taught by
NVRS SUBBARAO, TRILOKYANATH TRIPATHY, Raghavarao Kotturi, UTTAM KUMAR, KESKAR P B, Subbaiah DVS, Vani N, RAM NARAYANA BOGA and Swarnalatha Ramakrishnan
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