Information Package / Course Catalogue
Crop Production Structures
Course Code: ZTY543
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 6
Objectives of the Course

Internal requirements for crop production structures, determine the environmental conditions, and the vital effect on the performance, planning principles for crop production structures, facilities design principles to help model development opportunities for greenhouses, focuses on such issues.

Course Content

Structures have an important place in agriculture for crop production planning and to stop crop loosing , By the way to eliminate the deficiencies in these structures and aimed to explain the developments in production

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.To produce compatible desings between crop, environment and structures
2.To inhibit problems of the Crop production structures
3.Access to the economic goal for existing conditions
4.Comprehend ventilation, heating, cooling, irrigation-drainage and fertilisation principles in the crop production structures
5.Identify crop production structures types and structural elements
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Yüksel, A.N., 2001. Greenhouse Construction Technique (Sera Yapım Tekniği). Hasad Yayıncılık, İstanbul.
2.Yüksel, A.N., C.B. Şişman, 2000. Agricultural Building (Tarımsal İnşaat). Trakya Üniversitesi Tekirdağ Ziraat Fakültesi Yayın No: 278, Tekirdağ.
3.Broker, D.B., F.B. Arkema, C.W. Hall, 1992. Drying and Storage of Grains and Oilseeds. An AVI Book, Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, ISBN 0-442-20515-5, New York.
4.Hall, C.W., 1980. Drying and Storage of Agricultural Crops. The AVI Publishing Company İnc, ISBN 0-87055-364-X, Usa.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Crop Production Structures course, subject, scope, content
Week 2 - Theoretical
Introduction (Definition of greenhouses in the world and in Turkey)
Week 3 - Theoretical
Classification and Planning of greenhouses
Week 4 - Theoretical
Climatic Environmental Conditions Affecting Planning of greenhouses
Week 5 - Theoretical
Greenhouse Site Selection, Routing, sizing
Week 6 - Theoretical
Regulating of the interior of the greenhouse
Week 7 - Theoretical
Building Materials used in greenhouses
Week 8 - Theoretical
Materials used in construction of the greenhouse
Week 9 - Theoretical
Greenhouse Covering Materials, MID-TERM EXAM
Week 10 - Theoretical
Regulating Greenhouse Environmental Conditions
Week 11 - Theoretical
Mushroom Production Facilities and Climatic Environmental Conditions Affecting the planning for Production Facilities
Week 12 - Theoretical
Mushroom Production Process and Business Types
Week 13 - Theoretical
Mushroom Cultivation Places and Production Facilities Planning
Week 14 - Theoretical
Sample applications
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Attending Lectures1%5
Assignment1%5
Midterm Examination1%20
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141356
Assignment118018
Midterm Examination134236
Final Examination138240
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)150
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
OÇ-1
5
4
4
4
5
5
5
5
OÇ-2
5
5
4
5
4
5
4
5
OÇ-3
5
5
5
5
5
4
5
5
OÇ-4
5
4
5
5
5
4
5
5
OÇ-5
5
4
4
5
5
4
5
4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026