Plant Nutrition, Soil Fertility and Crop Fertilization
Postgraduate Degree
Ano Letivo 2025/2026

Course Overview

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Organic Unit: School of Science and Technology

DGES Code: 0602/3919

Duration: 2 Semesters/60 ECTS credits (60 required and 0 optional in curricular units)

Language: Portuguese

Regime: Presencial

CNAEF Areas:

Crop and livestock production (621)

Study Plan

Career Prospects

Is intended for technicians to develop activities in Plant Nutrition, Soils and Fertilization of Crops – the production, the management, the education or the organizations to support Agriculture.
They are intended to have skills to evaluate, to diagnose and to recommend in the areas of Nutrition, Fertility and Fertilization in various crops and environments:
-in systems of irrigation or dry, perennial or annual crops, intensive or extensive; and
-in a way to use efficiently the soil resource, maximize the production and economically monetize the fertilizers, with the increase of competitiveness, the reduction of waste and the risks of pollution, and to secure the sustainability of agricultural ecosystems.
Agriculture is a sector dependent of technicians with a good theoretical and practical training, so it’s indispensable the realization of this Course, adapted to the potential, regional and national agricultural reality, taking advantage of the exceptional conditions of competitiveness and of the quality of sectors.

Specific Entry Requirements

The application is conditional:
-to the ownership of a graduate degree or the holding of a professional or scientific curriculum recognized by the Scientific Council of ECT as a certificate of ability, and
-to the curricular analysis.