Information Package / Course Catalogue - Adnan Menderes University

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Person Responsible for Information Package

Prof. Engin ERTAN

Prof. Gonca GÜNVER DALKILIÇ

Prof. Halil Güner SEFEROĞLU

Prof. Uğur ŞİRİN

Prof. Zeynel DALKILIÇ

Lec. Burak Erdem ALGÜL

Lec. Gülsüm KARAKAYA

Lec. Mustafa ÇELİK

Modern Growing Systems in Greenhouse

Course Code	: BB427
Course Type	: Area Elective
Couse Group	: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language	: Turkish
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 2
Prt.	: 1
Credit	: 3
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 4

Objectives of the Course

The main objective of this course is to introduce modern systems and soilless culture techniques that can be used in greenhouses for vegetables and ornamental plants growing, to identfy the reasons for justifications, advantages and disadvantages, applications to greenhouses and to teach the principles of plant growing in these systems, to plan and manage soilless cultivation at commercial, amateur and experimental level, to provide the solutions to students to solve the problems facing in soilless plant production.

Course Content

Greenhouse definition, properties, comparison of simple and modern greenhouse systems, advantages and disadvantages, climitization in modern greenhouses, greenhouse automation, the definition and classification of soiless culture systems, soilless culture techniques, plant nutrition in soiless culture, preparation and application of nutrent solution, solution-Media-plant analysis , the advantages and disadvantages of soiless culture (hydroponics), environmental effect, the future.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Ins. Leyla EKEN

Learning Outcomes

1.	To be able to recognize the greenhouses, comprehend the use purposes, comprehend the differences between modern and simple greenhouses
2.	To be able to comprehend the structural features, equipments and automation of modern greenhouses, to manage and direct the climatization and automation of equipments
3.	To be able to plan and recognize the soilless culture systems
4.	To be able to grow plants in soilless culture
5.	To be able to solve the problems facing while production in soilless culture
6.	To be able to follow the new practices related to improve soilless culture, be open to innovations, and to produce solutions.

Recommended or Required Reading

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

What is greenhouse? Classification of greenhouses, suctructurel features, What mens “modern systems” in greenhouses? To identify the use justifications of modern systems by comparing the modern greenhouses with simple ones,

Week 1 - Practice

introduction of greenhouses

Week 2 - Theoretical

Giving information about modern systems in greenhouses, to identify the modern systems related to climatization as heating, lighting, moistening,

Week 2 - Practice

introduction of Heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting systems,

Week 3 - Theoretical

Automation, plant growing, nutrition and irrigation systems, harvesting and packaging systems in modern greenhouses,

Week 3 - Practice

Plant nutrition recipe preliminary preparation phase

Week 4 - Theoretical

Modern system for plant growing,- soilless culture-definition-the development and use of soilless culture in the world and Turkiye, advantages and disadvantages of soilless culture, classification of soilless culture systems

Week 4 - Practice

introduction of soiless culture systems

Week 5 - Theoretical

Substrate culture and water culture (hydroponics), subsrates and their characteristics used in soiless culture,

Week 5 - Practice

Installation of soilless agricultural culture systems in the greenhouse - example of bed and pot cultures

Week 6 - Theoretical

Irrigation and nutrition in soiless culture, contents and preparation of nutritent solution formulations,

Week 6 - Practice

Arrangement for plant growing in substrate culture or hydroponic systems

Week 7 - Theoretical

Substrate culture-The principles, advantages and disadvantages of Bed culture, (MİD-TERM EXAM)

Week 7 - Practice

Preparing bed culture and organizing plant cultivation

Week 8 - Theoretical

Application principles, advantages and disadvantages of Package-Pot culture

Week 8 - Practice

Introducing and implementing plant nutrition and irrigation systems

Week 9 - Theoretical

water culture systems (Hydroponics), advantages and disadvantages, principles of working of these systems, Factors to be taken into consideration during usage, (NFT-DFT)

Week 9 - Practice

Preparation of nutrient solution formulations

Week 10 - Theoretical

Advantages and disadvantages of water culture systems (Hydroponics), working principles, issues to be considered in their use (Non-flow technique)

Week 10 - Practice

Visit to a company, introduction of heating, cooling, irrigation and plant nutrition systems, computer-aided applications, automatic systems (Non-flow system)

Week 11 - Theoretical

Aeroponic systems, advantages and disadvantages, principles of working of these systems, Factors to be taken into consideration during usage,

Week 11 - Practice

Practices at the greenhouse of department, cultural practices

Week 12 - Theoretical

Factors to be taken into consideration during plant growing in modern greenhouses,

Week 12 - Practice

Harvest of crops, medium and greenhouse preparation for new session,

Week 13 - Theoretical

Environmental effects of modern growing systems used in grenhouses, comparison and evaluation of modern and simple greenhouses by economically,

Week 13 - Practice

presentation of term projects

Week 14 - Theoretical

Visiting commercial company, business management systems, presentation of term projects

Week 14 - Practice