Kabanyolo

Principles and practices of greenhouse operation including construction heating, cooling, light, temperature, ventilation, moisture, soils and nutrition.

 Students undertaking this course will be introduced to concepts and applications of genetics in agriculture.

Soil physical properties; their influence on air, workability, compaction, pore size and distribution. Water flow processes (infiltration, percolation, redistribution and evapotraspiration). Soil water content and potentials. Saturated and unsaturated water flow. Temperature, thermal regimes and heat flow in soils. Soil temperature management.

Types of annual crops and their importance in East Africa. Distribution of annual crops in relation to East African environments. Application of agronomic principles in the production of grain, pulse, oilseed, root and industrial crops within the east African environments. Discussion of seedbed preparation, time of planting, plant arrangement, plant population, crop manuring, and intercropping in relation to production of the above crops.