AGEN 101 — Agriculture Engineering I
Agriculture · University of Ghana
Importance and strategies of post harvest crop handling in agriculture. Postharvest physiology of farm produce; influence of production practices and technology-Harvest, handling and processing of agricultural produce traditional and modern technologies). Cleaning and sorting equipment. Different types of conveyors, transportation, size-reduction mills. Milling of grains. Influence of crop variable, mill design, separation and cleaning of grain, grain properties aerodynamic drag, friction resilience. Drying equipment principles and practice: Driers, solar driers. Storage methods and structures. Pest management, for storage; food processing and preservation of major types of food products. Hydrologic cycle; role of water in crop growth, concepts of soil water availability; irrigation water requirement, scheduling, water deficits and crop yields; Irrigation and Drainage - Sources of irrigation water, conveyance of irrigation water, methods of irrigation, calculating water requirement, comparison of irrigation systems for various drainage systems, crop water requirement, evapotranspiration and crop coefficient curve. Drainage problems, surface and sub-surface methods of drainage.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 100
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- AGEC 112 — Introduction to Economics
- AGEX 102 — Development Communication and Extension Methods
- AGEX 104 — Education and Training for Development Works
- AGRC 101 — General Chemistry I
- AGRC 102 — General Chemistry II
- AGRC 104 — Introduction to Computer Science
- AGRC 108 — General Physics
- ANIM 111 — Biology of Farm Animals
- CROP 111 — Introduction to Agricultural Botany
- MATH 101 — General Mathematics
- SOIL 101 — Introduction to Soil and the Environment
- AGEC 211 — Microeconomics (Principles and Applications to Households and Firms)
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).