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| Old Course Code | Subject Area | Catalogue Number | Long Title | Units | Description |
| AG805 | LAND | 7001 | Advanced Pedology | 2 | Integrative subject dealing with land resource assessment & land evaluation for variety of land management systems. Emphasis on techniques for resource inventory & evaluation on regional & national scale for strategic or specific planning purposes. Data m |
| AG807 | PLNT | 7008 | Tropical Pasture and Rangeland Science | 2 | Factors affecting pasture production. Alternative systems of pasture management. Special management considerations of tropical pasture species, integration of pastures in plantation & annual cropping, regional development planning, species introduction & |
| AG809 | PLNT | 7007 | Tropical Crop Science | 2 | Effects of agronomic factors on production of major tropical crops. Importance of genotypic variation on crop adaptation & productivity in tropics. |
| AG811 | CERD | 7006 | Extension Organisation & Management | 2 | Role of organisations in improving the delivery of services for rural development. Structural factors, planning & implementing processes & human factors in management of research & development programs. |
| AG813 | PLNT | 7002 | Advanced Soil-Plant Relationships | 2 | Use of radio-isotopes, methods of salt purification & methods for control of plant nutrient status. Practical work includes whole plant & excised root studies. |
| AG817 | LAND | 7003 | Advanced Soil Chemistry | 2 | Chemistry of selected plant nutrients in soil including nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium & micro-nutrients. |
| AG826 | PLNT | 7009 | Tropical Weed Science | 2 | Plant protection in crops with emphasis on weed control in tropical crops. Lectures with some assignments & laboratory studies. |
| AG834 | AREC | 7003 | Rural Development | 2 | Causes of rural poverty in low-income countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America; socio-economic analysis of agricultural & rural development strategies; evaluation of rural development policies, programs & projects. |
| AG837 | AREC | 7002 | Advanced Rural Marketing & Policy | 2 | In-depth analysis of selected topics in rural marketing and policy economics |
| AG838 | AREC | 7001 | Advanced Production Economics | 2 | Selected topics in economic analysis, modelling, and management of rural production systems. Emphasis on managing enterprises where risk is a significant consideration. Course tailored to interests and backgrounds of individual students. |
| AG840 | LAND | 7004 | Advanced Soil Physics | 2 | Advanced course of soil physics devoted particularly to interest of student whose primary interest is not soil physics. |
| AG847 | ANIM | 7008 | Tropical Animal Production | 2 | Introduction to problems of animal production in tropics. Environmental, disease, nutrition, genotype, economic & social restraints. Ruminant & monogastric systems. Problem-solving in village farming systems. Field tours; seminar. |
| AG848 | ANIM | 7006 | Ruminant Production Systems | 2 | Cattle, sheep & goat production systems in tropics. Ruminant production from tropical pastures. Multi-species use of grazing lands. Integration of ruminants into cropping systems. By-product utilisation. Milk production. Housing & management of ruminants. |
| AG849 | PLNT | 7001 | Advanced Plant Breeding | 2 | Advanced plant breeding/genetics. Reading topics in particular areas of genetics & genetic analysis. |
| AG851 | GNET | 7001 | Plant Molecular Genetics | 2 | Advanced plant breeding/genetics. Reading topics in particular plant breeding methods & strategies. |
| AG857 | AGRC | 7004 | Tropical Farming Systems | 2 | Integrative subject emphasising interactions between physical, biological & socioeconomic components of farming systems in the tropics; focus on improvement of village farming systems in low-income countries. |
| AG858 | BIOT | 7xxx | Biotechnology in Agriculture | 2 | Integration of new biotechnologies used in research, & plant & animal production, e.g., plant tissue culture, genetic engineering, diagnostic probes, biological control, growth promotion, vaccines. |
| AG865 | PLNT | 7003 | Field Experimentation for Plant Breeding | 2 | Genotype by environment interaction & selection in plant breeding. Design, site selection, management, measurement, analysis, both current & retrospective, of data from field selection trials. Inspection of representative trials. |
| AG866 | LAND | 7006 | Soil Biology | 2 | Soil organisms & their interactions; processes mediated; food webs; organic matter & biomass; effects on soil fertility; plant health & growth in cropping pasture, forestry, soil remediation systems; prospects for manipulation; techniques for studying soil |
| AG867 | AGRC | 7003 | Agricultural Research Administration | 2 | Deals with management of agricultural research, development of research policy from international, national, institutional & research project perspectives; covers grant applications, networking, collaborative research & technology transfer. |
| AG868 | AGRC | 7611 | Graduate Research Project I | 4 | Supervised research topic on approved topic for MAgrEcon, MAgrSt, MForSc, MLandResSc & MHortSc. Two copies of report in prescribed format to be submitted to Faculty Office at St Lucia by last day of teaching of semester or 2nd semester for year subjects. |
| AG870 | AGRC | 7614 | Graduate Research Project II | 6 | Supervised research project for MAgrEcon on approved topic. Two copies of report in prescribed format to be submitted to Faculty Office at St Lucia by last day of teaching semester or 2nd semester for year subjects. |
| AG870 | AGRC | 7615 | Graduate Research Project II | 6 | Supervised research project relevant to the course. Students commencing in Semester 1 must enrol in AGRC7615. Students commencing in Semester 2 must enrol in AGRC7616. |