Objectives:

To develop ability in the students to identify and plan research projects in different areas of Horticulture and write their reports.

Theory:

Concept of research, Identification of research problem, Planning and essential of a research plan, Scientific method, and experiment, Steps in experimentation, Writing of research proposal, Layout of field experiments, Observation of field trials, Measurement of crop growth and yield, Collection, tabulation, and analysis of data, Measures of experimental variability, Interpretation of data, Writing and summarizing of a scientific paper, report and thesis.

Practical:

Preparation of research proposal, Layout of field experiments, Collection and tabulation of data, Analysis of data, Presentation of data in tables, curves, histograms, etc, processing and interpretation, Writing of scientific paper.

Learning Outcomes:

Students must be able to plan and execute experiments along with scientific report writing.