Agronomy

                                     Agronomy

1. AGRO 202 - WEED MANAGEMENT (1+1)
2. AGRO 201 - Water Management (1+1)
3. AGRO 101 - Principles of Agronomy and Agricultural Meteorology (2+1)
4. AGRO 303 - Farming Systems and Sustainable Agriculture (1+1)
5. AGRO 102 - Dryland Farming and Watershed Management
6. AGR 301    - Crop production
7. AGR 301    - CROP PRODUCTION II
8. AGR           - A Text Book Of Agronomy
9. AGR 401    - AGRONOMY OF FIELD CROPS - II
10.AGR 303   - Agronomy of field crops 1 (2+1)
11. AGR 301  - Weed Management (1+1)
12. AGR 301  - A GUIDE TO IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT
13. AGR 201  - PRINCIPLES OF WEED SCIENCE, IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT AND DRY                                FARMING (2+1)
14. AGR 103 - AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY
15. AGR 103 - AGROMETEOROLOGY
16. AGR 102 - Agricultural Heritage of india
17. AGR 102 - AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE OF INDIA

Agronomy - Introduction

Agriculture is an age old practice. Many developments in agriculture have been taken place throughout the world. Mostly the agricultural technologies are location specific, season specific, soil specific, crop and variety specific. Some of technologies developed in western countries lead to the unsustainable agriculture. Now the scientists are looking for the study of traditional, indigenous farming system. Experiences gained at various stages in different parts of the world especially in India need not be tested again and again and can be used directly to the field condition if one knows what is the development occurred in different periods. A course on Agricultural heritage of India is newly introduced to the students of Agriculture. Information on ancient agricultural practices are brought together as per syllabus which will be very useful to the students of Agriculture as well as the personnel involved in various aspects of Agriculture.

Cultivation of Field Crops in Ancient India

The most probably earlier cultivation of crops was started on the foothills of upland areas of easily worked soil and not in the valleys because development of agriculture in the valley implies water control which need more skill and relatively more advance stage of technological development. This hypothesis about the beginning of agriculture is the forested foothills was put forward by Sauer - the American biographer. Sauer (1952), in his hypothesis about the origin and development of agriculture, propounded that:

• Agriculture did not originate in communities desperately in short supply of food, but among communities where there was sufficiency of food resulting into relative freedom from want and needed.
• The hearths of domestication are to be sought in regions of marked diversity of Plants and animals. primitive agriculture did not orgin in the large river valleys, subject to the lengthy foods and requiring protective dams, drainage or irrigation, but in moist hill lands.
• The agriculture began in forested lands, which had soft soil easy to dig.
• The pioneers of agriculture had previously required special skills but the hunters would be least inclined towards  the domestication of plants.
• The founders of agriculture were sedentary folks, because growing of crops requires constant attention and supervision and unless guarded properly, the crop will be lost.

Reference            

TNAU - Tamilnadu Agriculture University, Coimbatore Materials And TNAU - Affiliated Private College Materials, TNAU Government College Materials, ICAR - Indian Council Of Agriculture Research, New Delhi Materials to Collected.