Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Course Code | : ORT215 |
| Course Type | : Area Elective |
| Couse Group | : Short Cycle (Associate's Degree) |
| Education Language | : Turkish |
| Work Placement | : Students have made their compulsory internship at II and IV semester for 30 days |
| Theory | : 2 |
| Prt. | : 0 |
| Credit | : 2 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 2 |
The aim of this lesson is to let students gain knowledge and skills on how to identify losses at harvest and post-harvest stages and how to decrease losses through maintaining proper storage and transportation conditions. Besides to teach modern marketing principles and applying this principles to agricultural marketing with some case studies. To create opportunities to gain skills about market organization and market efficiency for agricultural products.
To teach the processes performed at harvest and post-harvest stages to prepare plant products to the market. The concept of marketing, the analysis of classic and modern marketing; the concept of supply and demand, the factors affecting supply and demand for agricultural products, formation of prices
| 1. | To be able to identify the losses at pre and post-harvest periods, |
| 2. | To be able to determine appropriate harvest times and harvest methods, |
| 3. | To be able to explain the basic concepts about post harvest operations, |
| 4. | To be able to define marketing and to have a general insight on supply and demand characteristics of agricultural products, |
| 5. | To be able to comprehend the concept of marketing research for agricultural products, to explain the concept of target market. |
| 1. | Karacalı, I., 2004. Storage of Agricultural Products. Aegean Uni., Faculty of Agriculture. |
| 2. | Gunes, T. 1996. Agricultural Marketing. A.Ü. Faculty of Agriculture. Ankara, 339p. |
| 3. | Fügen Durlu Özkaya, Serap Coşansu, Kamuran Ayhan. '' Food in All Aspects '' Sidas Publications. Izmir, 2015. |
| Type of Assessment | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | 1 | %10 |
| Quiz | 1 | %10 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | %20 |
| Final Examination | 1 | %60 |
| Activities | Count | Preparation | Time | Total Work Load (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture - Theory | 14 | 0 | 2 | 28 |
| Assignment | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Quiz | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) | 51 | |||
PÇ-1 | PÇ-2 | PÇ-3 | PÇ-4 | PÇ-5 | PÇ-6 | PÇ-7 | PÇ-8 | PÇ-9 | PÇ-10 | PÇ-11 | PÇ-12 | PÇ-13 | PÇ-14 | PÇ-15 | PÇ-16 | PÇ-17 | PÇ-18 | |
OÇ-1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
OÇ-2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
OÇ-3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
OÇ-4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
OÇ-5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||