Olive Orchard Soil Management

Code: ERU10134M

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Rural Engineering

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

Students with approval in this module will be in the possession of the information about the most common weeds in the olive groves of the Mediterranean basin. They are able to control these weeds using physical, chemical, biological and genetic resources. They also remain in the possession of knowledge about the equipment that could be used for control as well as the more correct way of its use in relation to the reduction of operating costs, the quality of the final product and to the conservation of the environment.

1. Soil tillage in olive orchards.
1.1 Impact on the mineral fraction and organic matter.
1.2 Impact on water and soil atmosphere.
2 Weeds in the olive orchards
2.1 Identification and characterization of the dominant species
2.2 Strategies for the control of weeds
2.2.1 Physical
2.2.2 Chemical
2.2.3 Genetic
2.3.Machinery
3 The maintenance techniques of soil and its consequences on soil characteristics and in the yield of the olive orchard
3.1 Total Mobilization Vs Herbicide control
3.1 Permanent vegetation cover or temporary
3.3 Mixed Techniques
3.4 Maintenance of soil
3.5 Comparative analysis of different systems, taking into account economic aspects, the conservation of soil and water and equipment trafficability
4 Specifications of the equipment used
4.1 Need for power
4.2 Workable Days
4.3 Fixed costs, variable costs and indirect
4.4 Own equipment and contractors.

Teaching Methods

Classes are taught intensively in modules, which derive the end-to-week. Audiovisual means by which, the students have an overview of the exposed materials will be used. In the first classes will preferably taught the theoretical component, which will be complemented by practical classes, which consist of visits to farms.
The evaluation will consist of the performance of three practical assignments based on not only the practical aspects that will be monitored on farms but also the bibliographic collection that will be performed during the work in the office. The first and second assignments will be performed by groups of two students, based on the information collected on the farms where the visits took place. The third practical work will be individual.
The final grade will be calculated as follows: NF (final note) Note = 0:35 x 0:35 x + work 1 work Note 2 + 0.3 x 3 Note of work