HO1004 : principles of horticulture

Department

Academic Program

Type

Compulsory

Credits

Prerequisite

Overview

This course is one of the main general courses for all scientific divisions in the agricultural faculty. It includes many contents: An introduction to the establishment and development of horticulture and its definition, the importance of horticultural crops to humans, the relationship of horticulture to other sciences and its place in agricultural production, divisions of horticultural crops - scientific division, according to the length of plant life - division of horticulture and the importance of each, structure of horticultural plants - the root system and its functions, the stem and its components (buds, flowers, leaves, fruits and seeds), growth and development of horticultural plants, their definitions, methods of measuring growth, stages of growth and characteristics of each, and environmental conditions and their impact on the growth and development of horticultural crops, photosynthesis and environmental factors affecting, respiration and environmental factors affecting it, flowers, the formation of flower buds and the factors affecting them for the fall of flowers, fruiting - pollination, fertilization, fruit setting, parthenogenesis, fruit falling (June) and the nature of pregnancy in fruit trees. Plant growth regulators and their uses, propagation facilities - their types, characteristics and uses of each of them, their composition, growing mediums and growing containers, propagation by fertilized seeds - its advantages and disadvantages - vegetative propagation - its definition, propagation by cuttings, and, the remaining methods of vegetative propagation include grafting, layering, tissue culture and seedling transfer, pruning and tree breeding, fruit thinning - fertilization and irrigation.

Intended learning outcomes

Successfully completing the course, the student will be able to:

1. Know the basics of horticulture.

2. Explain the factors affecting the growth and production of horticultural crops.

3. Know the different agricultural operations that take place for horticultural crops.

4. Distinguish between methods of breeding and pruning horticultural plants.

5. Distinguish between different breeding methods.

Teaching and learning methods

1. Theoretical and practical lectures.

2. Practical training

3. Field visits.

4. Use of the information network.

Methods of assessments

percentage	Evaluation date (week)	evaluation methods		No
20%	after the fifth week	first midterm exam		1
20%	after the tenth week	Second midterm exam		2
10%	after the twelfth week	Practical exam		3
10%	after the twelfth week	Report		4
40%	after the twelfth week	final exam		5
100%			total

ZOOLOGY (ZO1014)
Math 1 (MA 1113)
Botany (BO1014)
(BO1024)
Math 2 (1123 MA)
General Microbiology (Theoretical) (SW1003)
Principles of Soil Science (SW1014)
Principles of Water Science (SW1023)
Soil Physics (SW2014)
Agricultural Climatology (SW2113)
Geology (GO2203)
Reclamation of Dry Lands Soils (SW3223)
Geographic Information System (SW1113)
Soil, Plant and Water Analysis (SW2033)
Remote Sensing and its Application (SW2064)
Agricultural Drainage (SW3113)
Applied Hydraulics (SW2123)
Irrigation Science (SW2153)
Principles of Field Crops (CS1024)
Soil and water conservation (SW3213)
Farm Irrigation Systems (SW3154)
Surface Water Hydrology (SW2134)
principles of horticulture (HO1004)
Water Resources In Libya and Development (SW3124)
Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition (SW3043)
Water Resources Management (SW2074)
General Microbiology (Practical) (SW1001)
Special studies (SW3992)