This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the plant production industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 4 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- General chemistry
- Academic literacy
- Molecular and cell biology
- General physics
- Mathematics
- Biometry
- Plant biology
- Information literacy
- Introductory genetics
- Introduction to microbiology
- Animal diversity
Second year subjects:
- Introduction to proteins and enzymes
- Biometry
- Introduction to soil science
- Introduction to financial management in agriculture
- Introduction to agricultural production economics
- Introduction to crop protection
- Sustainable production systems
- Plant biochemistry evolution
- Soil fertilisation and plant nutrition
- Gene analysis and manipulation
- Crop propagation
- Agricultural economics
- Agroclimatology
Third year subjects:
- Soil classification and surveying
- Soil physics
- Nursery management
- Principles of veld management
- Industrial crops
- Plant disease control
- Insect pest management
Fourth year subjects:
- Plant ecophysiology
- Land use planning
- Environmental biophysics
- Weed science
- Crop physiology
- Environmental management
- Experimental design and analysis
Careers: plant production manager, plant production analyst.
Source: www.up.ac.za