2023
Olericulture
Name: Olericulture
Code: FIT13889L
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
Students must acquire the fundamental knowledge about the current situation of horticulture worldwide and in Portugal, development perspectives, techniques used and innovative technologies. Through the recognition of production limiting factors, simultaneously with knowledge of plant physiology, they should be able to analyze the most appropriate production techniques, either outdoors or using plant protection methods, for specific cases.
Thus, students should be able to assess concrete situations and adapt technologies to the intended horticultural production and to the climatic and socio-economic reality.
Your skills should allow you to plan and guide sustainable horticultural farms as well as to correct detected errors.
Thus, students should be able to assess concrete situations and adapt technologies to the intended horticultural production and to the climatic and socio-economic reality.
Your skills should allow you to plan and guide sustainable horticultural farms as well as to correct detected errors.
Contents
1. OVERVIEW OF HORTICULTURE
World and national perspective. Market aspects.
Producing regions and calendar.
Horticultural species identification. Classification of horticultural crops.
2. PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
Rotations. Implantation methods. Seeding vs Plantation.
Protected cultivation systems.
Plant Growth Regulators.
Fertilization and irrigation systems
Soilless cultures. Substrates and nutritive solutions.
3. PROPAGATION
Vegetative propagation Grafting.
Seminal propagation. The seeds and germination tests.
Nurseries.
4. STUDY OF MAIN CULTURES, WITH RELEVANT ECONOMIC INTEREST
Asteraceae-lettuce, chicory; Apiaceae-carrot; Aliáceae onion, garlic; Brassicáceae Portuguese cabbage, broccoli, turnip; Cucurbitaceae-melon; Fabaceaepea; Rosaceae-strawberry; Solanaceae - tomato, potato. In each, the following aspects will be addressed: Taxonomy. Economic interest. Physiological aspects. Cultural systems. Implementation and conduction. Post-harvest and commercialization.
World and national perspective. Market aspects.
Producing regions and calendar.
Horticultural species identification. Classification of horticultural crops.
2. PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
Rotations. Implantation methods. Seeding vs Plantation.
Protected cultivation systems.
Plant Growth Regulators.
Fertilization and irrigation systems
Soilless cultures. Substrates and nutritive solutions.
3. PROPAGATION
Vegetative propagation Grafting.
Seminal propagation. The seeds and germination tests.
Nurseries.
4. STUDY OF MAIN CULTURES, WITH RELEVANT ECONOMIC INTEREST
Asteraceae-lettuce, chicory; Apiaceae-carrot; Aliáceae onion, garlic; Brassicáceae Portuguese cabbage, broccoli, turnip; Cucurbitaceae-melon; Fabaceaepea; Rosaceae-strawberry; Solanaceae - tomato, potato. In each, the following aspects will be addressed: Taxonomy. Economic interest. Physiological aspects. Cultural systems. Implementation and conduction. Post-harvest and commercialization.
Teaching Methods
This u.c includes only theoretical-practical classes. The learning of fundamental concepts will be through expository classes using audiovisual projection means and texts of technical issues to be presented and discussed.
Practical skills will also be acquired in the classroom and by autonomous research monitored by the professors on the subjects under study, to achieve specific knowledge. The support given by the professors is complemented by materials available on the UEvora e-learning platform, as well as the indication of sites and optional readings. Study visits to companies located in Litoral Alentejano, Zona Oeste and Montijo, will be done and the students must redact a critical report on each visit, identifying errors and proposing solutions.
The evaluation will consist of 2 written tests, and / or 1 exam, (70%) and group works (30%) that integrate the knowledge acquired in the course, as for example by developing a horticultural rotation proposal for a specific area.
Practical skills will also be acquired in the classroom and by autonomous research monitored by the professors on the subjects under study, to achieve specific knowledge. The support given by the professors is complemented by materials available on the UEvora e-learning platform, as well as the indication of sites and optional readings. Study visits to companies located in Litoral Alentejano, Zona Oeste and Montijo, will be done and the students must redact a critical report on each visit, identifying errors and proposing solutions.
The evaluation will consist of 2 written tests, and / or 1 exam, (70%) and group works (30%) that integrate the knowledge acquired in the course, as for example by developing a horticultural rotation proposal for a specific area.
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