RAIN SEMESTER COURSE OUTLINE
300 LEVEL B.AGRIC
This is a provision of THE LIBRARIANS COMMITTEE 19/20 academic session
COURSE NAME
PRINCIPLE OF MACRO ECONOMICS
INTRODUCTORY GEOLOGY FOR
AGRICULTURE
AGRONOMY OF ARABLE CROPS
INTRODUCTION TO PLANT BREEDING
COURSE CODE SYNOPSIS
AEF 302 ✔ Basic concepts and national income
✔ Hypothesis consumption theory
✔ Classical and keynesian macroeconomics;
money, goods, market and general equilibrium
✔ Investment theory; profit and accelerators,
international trade theories, tariffs, quotas and
balance of payment
✔ Inflation; types, measurement, control and
stabilization
AGY 302 ✔ Composition of the earths crust. Silicate
materials and their identification
✔ Crystallography and minerals
✔ Characteristics of Igneous, metamorphic and
sedimentary rocks and their weathering products
✔ Geology of Nigeria
✔ Origin of Crystal structures
✔ The main features of Earths surface. External
processes
AGY 308 ✔ Priniciple of Arable Crop Production
✔ Production practices for cereal, legumes, root
crops, oil seed crops, fibre crops, fruit and leafy
vegetable of economic importance in Nigeria
AGY 310 ✔ Definition and concepts in Plant Breeding
✔ Contributions of plant breeding to the society
✔ Genetic variation and exploitation in plant
breeding
✔ Heritability and genetic variance
✔ Plant germplasm
✔ Simple statistical tools in plant breeding
✔ Biotechnology as a tool in plant breeding
PRINCIPLE OF FEEDS AND FEEDING
GENERAL ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
PLANT PATHOLOGY
SOIL AND WATER ENGINEERING FOR
AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS
ANP 302 ✔ Classification of Feeds
✔ Proximate analysis and nutritive value of
Nigerian Feedstuffs
✔ Utilization of agro industrial by products
✔ Protein and energy requirements of farm
livestock
✔ Feeding standards
✔ Balance trial and other methods of
determining of evaluating nutritional value of
feed
ANP 306 ✔ Consideration of the factors necessary for
successful swine, rabbit poultry and ruminant
production programmes
✔ Requirement for housing
✔ Effects of feeding and management on yield
and quantity
✔ Rearing of young animals to market
✔ Emphasis to be placed on design of a
profitable enterprise
CPT 302 ✔ Principles of plant pathology
✔ An introduction to symptoms, spread, control
of major local plant disease caused by nematodes,
fungi, bacteria and viruses
✔ Method of controlling plant diseases
ABE 310 ✔ Irrigation and methods of irrigation
✔ Measurement of water
✔ Frequency and Amount of irrigation
✔ Irrigation efficiency
✔ Quality of irrigation water
✔ Drainage requirement of crop surface and sub
surface drainage
✔ Soil conservation, universal soil loss equation
✔ Gully erosion control structure
✔ Soil erosion by water and wind