Advances in Agricultural Engineering

Module No.

Content

Duration

Remark

Section-1: SOIL INFORMATION AND AGRICULTURAL PLANNING

1

Soil Property Monitoring

1 h 30 min

AV

Importance of soil properties data in agricultural planning and their measurement

Advanced sensor applications in soil management

2

Integrated Nutrient Management

1 hr

AV

Importance of INM for sustainable soil management

Strategies of INM for Indian agriculture

3

Digital Soil Mapping

1 h 30 min

AV

Geostatistics and its applications in soil science

Overview of DSM

4

Case Studies on Sensor Based Precision Soil Properties Management

4h

Self-study

 Selected Cases from Eastern India

Selected cases from developed countries

Section- 2: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION

1

Mechanized agricultural system

1 h 30 min

AV

Current issues in agricultural mechanization in India and in the Asia-Pacific region

The ‘Systems’ approach

2

Performance evaluation of the agri-systems

1 h 30 min

AV

Water-Food-Energy nexus for sustainability

Stages of systems evaluation

3

Mechanization and farm productivity

1 h 30 min

AV

Opm energy inputs in modern agriculture

Modern agriculture and environment

Performance indicators

4

Case studies on GHG emissions and Energy use

4 h

Self-study

Selected cases from middle Indo-Gangetic Plains of India

Selected cases from the Asia-Pacific region

Section – 3: LAND & WATER RESOURCES MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT

1

On-farm water management

On-farm Water Balance

30 min

AV

Water Application Methods and Irrigation Efficiencies

30 min

AV

Agricultural Land Drainage

1 h

Self-study

2

Soil and Water Conservation

Soil erosion & Erosion control measures

1 h

AV

Sedimentation in rivers and streams

30 min

Self-study

Water harvesting techniques

30 min

Self-study

3

Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing (RS)

Concepts on GIS & RS

1 h

Self-study

Application  overview of GIS & RS

1 h

AV

4

Case Studies on GIS & RS Application in Water Resources

 Advancements in Remote Sensing Satellites products and  satellite data derived Indices

1 h

Self-study

Monitoring of Key Eco-hydrological Variables and applications of RS and GIS in resources management

1 h

AV

Section- 4: SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

1

Upsurges in food processing: A clean energy approach

Renewable energy: a fount for food processing

Exploring solar energy for food processing preservation

1 h

AV

2

Performance and computational modeling of food

dehydration systems

Energy and exergy analysis of food dryers

Multiphysics modeling of drying process

1 h

AV

3

Progressive advancements in food preservation

technologies

Contemporary technologies for thermal processing of foods

Technological advancements in food freezing

1 h

AV

4

Perpetuating the nutritional aspects of food with Nonthermal technologies

Non-Thermal Technologies: A brief overview and its status around the globe

Recent invents in Non-Thermal food processing

1 h

AV

5

Case studies on-

Alterations in quality characteristics of dehydrated food commodities

Commercial thermal processing of foods: a focus in Indian scenario

Effect of Non-Thermal processing on various quality traits of food

4 h

Self-study

Section- 5: BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS IN AGRICULTURE

1

Conventional Plant Breeding and Marker-Assisted Selection

Introduction, Pureline theory, Backcross method, Molecular marker, Application of marker-assisted selection

1 h

AV

Advantages and disadvantages of molecular markers

1 h

Self-study

2

Molecular intervention in plants for stress mitigation

Abiotic stress, Biotic stress, Stress sensing in plants, Phenotypic changes in plants upon exposure to stress, Strategies for stress mitigation

1h 30 min

AV

Application of microbes in stress mitigation

1 h

Self-study

3

Improvement of nutritional status in crop plants by biotechnological intervention

1 h 30 min

AV

Plant genetic transformation  - an outline

1 h

Self-study

Gene transfer in plastids: principles and applications

1 h

Self-study