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Mechanization Practices For Soil-Water Conservation

Course Code	: ZTM618
Course Type	: Area Elective
Couse Group	: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language	: Turkish
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 3
Prt.	: 0
Credit	: 3
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 6

Objectives of the Course

The aim of the course is to inform students about soil tillage farming methods and structural properties of the appropriate combination of machine tool, work quality and operational characteristics of this instrument and the equipment designs, these designs comparative study of the technical and economic aspects, soil and water as a protection for the native form of structural change in manufacturing and the analysis.

Course Content

Minimum tillage, conventional tillage and general information about the method, stripped, precise method of tillage, ridge planting method, mulching technique, method of mulch tillage, direct drilling technique used in the methods kombinasyonlarınınyapısal and functional properties of the machine tool, process steps, technical, temporal and economic evaluation

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Learning Outcomes

1.	Tillage and no-till farming methods to select the appropriate instrument-machine
2.	The ability to analyze the quality and operational characteristics of the equipment business
3.	The selection of equipment to analyze the technical and economic
4.	To understand the technical details concerning the equipment for the protection of soil and water
5.	To understand the technical details concerning the equipment for the protection of soil and water

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	MWPS, 2000. Conservation Tillage Systems and Management. Iowa State University, ISBN:0-089373-088-2
2.	Toprak Amenajmanı. Yeşilsoy, Ş., 1995. Ç.Ü Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları No:18, ADANA

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Introduction (Course disposition, general definitions)

Week 2 - Theoretical

General information about the method of Minimum tillage an conventional tillage

Week 3 - Theoretical

Stripped tillage method and product-based process chains

Week 4 - Theoretical

Precision tillage method and product-based process chains

Week 5 - Theoretical

Ridge planting method and procedure based on the product chains

Week 6 - Theoretical

Tillage method and product-based processing chains during planting

Week 7 - Theoretical

Tillage method and product-based processing chains during planting

Week 8 - Theoretical

Vertical mulching technique

Week 9 - Theoretical

Mulch tillage method and product-based process chains

Week 10 - Theoretical

Direct seeding technique and product-based process chains

Week 11 - Theoretical

Structural features of the machine-equipment combinations used in the methods

Week 12 - Theoretical

Functional features of the machine-equipment combinations used in the methods

Week 13 - Theoretical

Technical and temporal evaluationof the methods and the process steps

Week 14 - Theoretical

Economical evaluation of the methods and the process steps

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Midterm Examination	1	%30
Final Examination	1	%70

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	14	2	2	56
Assignment	14	2	3	70
Midterm Examination	1	9	2	11
Final Examination	1	11	2	13
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	PÇ-9	PÇ-10	PÇ-11	PÇ-12
OÇ-1	5	5	5	5	4	3		4	5	5	5	5
OÇ-2	5	5	5	5	4	3		4	5	5	5	5
OÇ-3	5	5	5	5	4	3		4	5	5	5	5
OÇ-4	5	5	5	5	4	3		4	5	5	5	5
OÇ-5

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