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2025

Conservation Agriculture

Name: Conservation Agriculture
Code: FIT10447M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Agronomy

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

To get competences on conservation agriculture in the context of the Mediterranean environment, namely the conception and functioning of no-till systems under low input cropping systems.

Contents

Conservation tillage systems
Crop rotations
Management of crop residues
Evolution of soil properties under conservation agriculture
Weed management under conservation agriculture
Utilization of no-till seeders
Strategies to star conservation agriculture in different soils and cropping systems
Climatic variability and strategies to increase use efficiency of different production factors under Mediterranean environment.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes
Practical classes
Written test
Monograph on conservation agriculture in a region of the world