Advances in Agricultural Engineering

By Dr. Ashok Mishra | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 1998

Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy and therefore timely update on Agricultural knowledge though university teachers is vital to sustainable development in the 21st century. Keeping this in view, this course is developed by an experienced team of Agricultural Scientists and Engineers at the IIT Kharagpur for the purpose- Annual Refresher Program in Teaching (ARPIT) supported by MHRD, GoI.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	16 weeks
Category :	Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT)
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Continuing Education
Start Date :	19 Sep 2019
End Date :	31 Dec 2019
Exam Date :

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Course layout

The course (Advances in Agricultural Engineering) has five sections.

i) Soil Information and Agricultural Planning
ii) Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization
iii) Land & Water Resources Monitoring and Management
iv) Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security
v) Biotechnological Interventions in Agriculture

Module No.	Content		Duration	Remark
Section-1: SOIL INFORMATION AND AGRICULTURAL PLANNING (4 hours video lectures + 4 hours self-learning reading materials) Instructor: Dr. Somsubhra Chakraborty (somsubhra@agfe.iitkgp.ac.in)
1	Soil Property Monitoring		1 h 30 min	AV
	Importance of soil properties data in agricultural planning and their measurement
	Advanced sensor applications in soil management
2	Integrated Nutrient Management		1 hr	AV
	Importance of INM for sustainable soil management
	Strategies of INM for Indian agriculture
3	Digital Soil Mapping		1 h 30 min	AV
	Geostatistics and its applications in soil science
	Overview of DSM
4	Case Studies on Sensor Based Precision Soil Properties Management		4h	Self-study
	Selected Cases from Eastern India
	Selected cases from developed countries
Section- 2: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION (4 hours video lectures + 4 hours self-learning reading material) Instructor: Dr. Peeyush Soni (soni@iitkgp.ac.in)
1	Mechanized agricultural system		1 h 30 min	AV
	Current issues in agricultural mechanization in India and in the Asia-Pacific region
	The ‘Systems’ approach
2	Performance evaluation of the agri-systems		1 h 30 min	AV
	Water-Food-Energy nexus for sustainability
	Stages of systems evaluation
3	Mechanization and farm productivity		1 h 30 min	AV
	Opm energy inputs in modern agriculture
	Modern agriculture and environment
	Performance indicators
4	Case studies on GHG emissions and Energy use		4 h	Self-study
	Selected cases from middle Indo-Gangetic Plains of India
	Selected cases from the Asia-Pacific region
Section – 3: LAND & WATER RESOURCES MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT (4 hours video lectures + 4 hours self-learning reading materials) Instructors: Dr. D. R. Mailapalli (mailapalli@agfe.iitkgp.ac.in) Dr. Amey Pathak (amey@agfe.iitkgp.ac.in)
1	On-farm water management
	On-farm Water Balance		30 min	AV
	Water Application Methods and Irrigation Efficiencies		30 min	AV
	Agricultural Land Drainage		1 h	Self-study
2	Soil and Water Conservation
	Soil erosion & Erosion control measures		1 h	AV
	Sedimentation in rivers and streams		30 min	Self-study
	Water harvesting techniques		30 min	Self-study
3	Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing (RS)
	Concepts on GIS & RS		1 h	Self-study
	Application overview of GIS & RS		1 h	AV
4	Case Studies on GIS & RS Application in Water Resources
	Advancements in Remote Sensing Satellites products and satellite data derived Indices		1 h	Self-study
	Monitoring of Key Eco-hydrological Variables and applications of RS and GIS in resources management		1 h	AV
Section- 4: SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY (4 hours video lectures + 4 hours self-learning reading material) Instructor: Dr. P. P. Tripathy (punam@agfe.iitkgp.ac.in)
1		Upsurges in food processing: A clean energy approach Renewable energy: a fount for food processing Exploring solar energy for food processing preservation	1 h	AV
2		Performance and computational modeling of food dehydration systems Energy and exergy analysis of food dryers Multiphysics modeling of drying process	1 h	AV
3		Progressive advancements in food preservation technologies Contemporary technologies for thermal processing of foods Technological advancements in food freezing	1 h	AV
4		Perpetuating the nutritional aspects of food with Nonthermal technologies Non-Thermal Technologies: A brief overview and its status around the globe Recent invents in Non-Thermal food processing	1 h	AV
5		Case studies on- Alterations in quality characteristics of dehydrated food commodities Commercial thermal processing of foods: a focus in Indian scenario Effect of Non-Thermal processing on various quality traits of food	4 h	Self-study
Section- 5: BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS IN AGRICULTURE (4 hours video lectures + 4 hours self-learning reading materials) Instructors: Dr. Joydeep Banerjee (joydeep@agfe.iitkgp.ac.in) Dr. Adinpunya Mitra (adin@agfe.iitkgp.ac.in)
1		Conventional Plant Breeding and Marker-Assisted Selection
		Introduction, Pureline theory, Backcross method, Molecular marker, Application of marker-assisted selection	1 h	AV
		Advantages and disadvantages of molecular markers	1 h	Self-study
2		Molecular intervention in plants for stress mitigation
		Abiotic stress, Biotic stress, Stress sensing in plants, Phenotypic changes in plants upon exposure to stress, Strategies for stress mitigation	1h 30 min	AV
		Application of microbes in stress mitigation	1 h	Self-study
3		Improvement of nutritional status in crop plants by biotechnological intervention	1 h 30 min	AV
		Plant genetic transformation - an outline	1 h	Self-study
		Gene transfer in plastids: principles and applications	1 h	Self-study