Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
TAB-23-143	Dry FarmIng	Elective	1	2	6

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To provide knowledge to students about the most effective way to increase agricultural productivity in developing vegetable production systems in insufficient or irregular distribution of rainfall during the vegetation period of dry soil and climatic factors in agricultural areas.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Doç.Dr.Özcan ÇAĞLAR

Learning Outcomes

1	Agricultural systems can be applied according to the distribution of precipitation will have information about. Understands the principles of dry farming system. Moist and dry farming system in irrigated agricultural system can compare.
2	Explain the basic concepts of dry farming.
3	Plant-water relations as to reduce the effects of drought in arid conditions, plant growth by internalizing the strategies learned and apply in practice.
4	Tightening of fallow fields and knows the need for measures to be taken to reduce fallow.
5	Arid to plan under the terms of the techniques of rotation.
6	Ecological requirements cannot be due to technical or production management techniques for agricultural land and the economy of the country farmers can contribute to gaining knowledge in professional life.
7	Plant management systems can contribute to the development of arid conditions.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

In this course, widely implemented system of dry farming dry farming areas of agricultural policies in the context of the effective ways to exploit described in detail.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Crop farming systems
2	Dry farming, irrigated agriculture, humid agricultural
3	The presence of total land and fallow fields in our country, the situation
4	Dryland and irrigated areas, fallow types of applied
5	Problems in our country, fallow fields, fallow fields, the measures for narrowing
6	Dry farming soil tillage, tillage tools, time, methods, and the depth of tillage
7	Seed bed preparation, open areas to move to tillage, soil tillage
8	MID-TERM EXAMINATION-- Dry agriculture, planting, sowing methods, fertilization, fertilization time, shape, and fertilizers used in
9	Dry farming system, diseases, pests and weed control
10	Dry agriculture, water, housing a variety of applications, advantages and disadvantages, applications, cultural practices and profit operation
11	Agricultural water management in arid areas
12	Global warming, drought, desertification and the possible effects on agriculture
13	Drought-resistant plant selection and breeding conditions
14	Arid conditions, plant breeding strategies
15	FINAL EXAMİNATİON

Recommended or Required Reading

Ders kitabı: 1-Kuru Tarım (Basılmamış Ders Notları) Önerilen Kaynaklar (Yardımcı kaynaklar): 1. Sencar, Ö., Gökmen, S., Yıldırım, A., Kandemir, N., 1994. Tarla Bitkileri Üretimi. Genişletilmiş 2. Baskı. Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi Ziraat Fak. Yayınları: 3, Ders Kitabı: 3. 2) Küresel İklim Değişimine Bağlı Sürdürülebilir Tarım, 2010. Erciyes Üniv. Seyrani Ziraat Fakültesi Yayın No:1,Kayseri Köyleri Eğitim, Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Derneği, Yayın No:1, Cilt:3, Teknik Eleman Eğitimi. 3) TEMA, Türkiye Erozyonla Mücadele , Ağaçlandırma ve Doğal Varlıkları Koruma Vakfı Yayınları.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		50
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		50
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Question-Answer	6	1	6
Field Trip	1	2	2
Field Work	1	2	2
Seminar	1	5	5
Self Study	4	4	16
Individual Study for Homework Problems	2	10	20
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	5	6	30
Individual Study for Final Examination	6	6	36
Performance	1	5	5
Homework	1	5	5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			172

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12	PO 13	PO 14	PO 15
LO1	4	3	4	5	3	3			4
LO2	4	4	4	5	4	3
LO3	4	4	4	4	4	3			4
LO4	4	3	4	4	3	3			4
LO5	4	3	4	5	4	3			4
LO6	4	4	4	4	3	3			4
LO7	4	4				3			4

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High