Week 8: Soilless culture and disease management
Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction and economic importance
- Week 2: Different structures and their construction
- Week 3: Selection of site and orientation, Structural demonstration of greenhouses
- Week 4: Environment control and maintenance
- Week 5: Seed and nursery raising
- Week 6: Crops/cultivars suitable for forcing
- Week 7: Production technology of different crops
- Week 8: Soilless culture and disease management
- Week 9: Media, soil mixtures, containers
- Week 10: fertigation and irrigation systems
- Week 11: Pruning, training and staking, Insects, diseases, disorders and problem management
- Week 12: Economics of protected and conventional production
- Week 13: plastic tunnels and other structures
- Week 14: Preparation of growing media, Tools and types of containers,
- Week 15: Raising of crops, Pruning, training and staking techniques
- Week 16: Pollination techniques
- Chapters 16
- Department Horticulture
- Teacher
Dr. Rashad Mukhtar Balal
