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This course introduces students to the concepts, technologies and applications involved in precision farming (PF). This entails the use of ICT and some high-technology equipment for assessing field conditions and applying variable rates of production inputs for management of soil nutrients, weeds, pest & diseases. Topics include sampling procedures, and measurements of parameters through environmental sensors, GNSS, RS and PS. Data input into GIS or analysis using Geo-statistical & Mapping software to accomplish primary spatial data management tasks, creation of spatial variability maps for mechanized applications of farm inputs. Students will also be exposed to precision technologies in livestock production for locating as well as feeding, reproduction and health management. Students will participate in some hands-on experience in the use of enabling hardware and software in PF applications.

This course introduces the land application of farm mechanization in modern agriculture. This course also examines machinery used for land preparation, planting, crop maintenance, harvesting, and post-harvest processing. The construction, operation, and maintenance of common farm machinery will be discussed. Financial farm machinery performance and the economics of mechanization, including field efficiency, operating costs, fixed costs, and variable costs, for effective management decisions will be covered.
Welcome to the course.
During the semester,
This course is designed to provide a learning environment for undergraduate students to acquire skills in basic descriptive and inferential statistics related to Agriculture. It involves learning about the various ways of describing, analysing and interpreting the results of the analysis of data. Students will learn how to do the data analysis using Excel. This course will provide important fundamentals to enable the students to carry out their final year research projects. The student learning outcomes achieved in this course will support the programme learning outcome (cognitive skills and numeracy skills learning domains) that students should be able to identify crop production problems, apply knowledge to solve these problems, and suggest ways to solve them using numerical and analytical approaches. At the end of this course, students should be able to:
•Describe some basic statistical concepts.
•Distinguish between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.
•Conduct hypothesis testing for the selected parametric and non-parametric tests in order to solve biological problems.
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Aim for A+
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