DIPLOMA IN AGRICULTURE (PLANT SCIENCE)
Course Introduction
This course is based on the job required to perform by the Junior Technicians (JT) at different levels of public and private sectors of Agriculture and community development related works in Nepal. Therefore, this curriculum is designed to provide knowledge and skills focusing on Agriculture Plant Science related to the occupation. There are six semesters in total within the period of three years.
The first year courses are offered focusing on foundational and core academic subjects of Agriculture science; the second year courses are focused on basic disciplinary subjects of Agriculture Plant Science. Similarly, the third year whole courses comprise of the disciplinary subjects related to Agriculture Extension, Crop Production, and Seed Technology and so on. Moreover, the third year insists on the application of learned skills and knowledge through the project work and Internship Program. .
The curriculum structure and the subject wise content that reflect the details of this curriculum. In brief, this curriculum will guide to its implementers to produce competent and highly employable middle level technical workforces in the field of Agriculture.
Objectives
The course has the following objectives:
- Provide agronomy, horticulture, and plant protection services to local farmers and different scales of farming;
- Deliver extension and community development services as a front-line extension workers;
- Conduct farmers training as a local level resource person for increasing productivity of land, plant protection, land management, soil management, fertilizer application and new technology adaptation;
- Carryout agribusiness management and cooperatives services at rural and urban areas in public and private sectors;
- Promote various aspects of agriculture such as plant breeding, commercial vegetable production, mushroom cultivation, fruit crops production, medicinal plant production and aquaculture and fisheries;
- Promote organic and offseason vegetables production technology, culture and farming system;
- Communicate effectively and work collaboratively in multidisciplinary and multicultural work environments through recognizing and understanding global, environmental, social, and ethical contexts of their works; and
- Enable to prepare business plan for establishing small scale production and service related agro-enterprise firms.
1st Semester
Nepali
English I
Mathematics I
Physics I
Chemistry I
Botany I
Zoology I
2nd Semester
English II
Mathematics II
Physics II
Chemistry II
Botany II
Zoology II
Computer Application
3rd Semester
Fundamentals of Horticulture
Agro-metrology and assessment
Environmental Science
Irrigation, Farm Mechanization and Farm Structure
Fundamentals of Agronomy
Agriculture Entomology
Fundamentals of Soil Science
Introductory Animal Husbandry
4th Semester
Soil Fertility Management
Cereal Crop Production
Plant Pathology and Mushroom Cultivation
Vegetable and Spice Crop Production
Fundamentals of Aquaculture and Fisheries
Agri- Economics and Farm Management
Industrial Crops
5th Semester
Medicinal Plants and NTFP
Grain legumes and Oilseed crops
Fruit Crop Production
Post-Harvest Technology
Agriculture Extension and communication
Agribusiness, Marketing and Cooperative
Ornamental Horticulture
Seed Technology
6th Semester
Elementary Agriculture Statistics
Social Mobilization and Community Development
Entrepreneurship Development
Internship (Farm Practice Training)