AGCP 3104

LEVEL: III

SEMESTER: 1 

COURSE TITLE: PLANT PROPAGATION AND NURSERY MANAGEMENT (To be offered in alternate years only; alternatively with AGCP 3103 - Commercial Floriculture) 

NUMBER OF CREDITS: 3

PRE-REQUISITES: AGCP 2101 (Principles of Sustainable Crop Production - Science and Practice) and AGRI 2001 (Tropical Crop Protection)

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The plant nursery industry – products, markets, producers, organisation, linkages, the industry in the Caribbean; plant propagation – seedling and rootstock production, vegetative propagation (macroand micropropagation techniques), acclimatisation; planting material quality – standards; plant nurseries - site selection and utilities, covered and field nurseries, layout; propagation facilities design – indoor: seedling houses, facilities for micro- and macropropagation and outdoor ; environmental management – light, temperature, water, RH, gaseous exchange; propagation and growing media selection and management; containers; cultural practices; mechanisation of nursery operations; human resource requirements; marketing and consumer relations.

ASSESSMENT: Coursework: - 100%