Course Description:

The course is an academic program for MA and BA students focused on agricultural implements and machines for soil conservation, plus machines, instruments and techniques for precision agriculture, as well as anaerobic digestion plants for air protection.The course provides students with:

knowledge, capacities and competences on machines and plants for environmental protection, i.e. soil conservation, prevention or minimisation of soil compaction, reduction of crop inputs and spatially variable depth soil tillage, according to precision agriculture principles, as well as energy valorisation of organic substrates;basic technical and scientific knowledge and technical and economic selection criteria of the machines and plants for environmental protection;competences about the types, characteristics, main parts, working, performance, management and basic evaluation and selection principles of machines and plants for environmental protection.

The course is based on theoretical framework about basic physical quantities and practical aspects of measurements, as well as within-field soil and crop parameters.The course will be the combination of lectures and case studies, both as on-line recorded video presentations.

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