AGINFO-211 Agricultural Informatics and Artificial Intelligence New Syllabus 6th Dean’s

Objective

1. To acquaint student with the basics of computer applications in agriculture, multimedia, data base management, application of mobile app and decision- making processes, etc.
2. To provide basic knowledge of computer with applications in Agriculture.
3. To make the students familiar with Agricultural-Informatics, its components and applications in agriculture.

Theory

Introduction to Computers, Anatomy of Computers, Memory Concepts, Units of Memory, Operating System: Definition and types, Applications of MS-Office for creating, Editing and Formatting a document, Computer programming: General concepts, Introduction to Visual Basic, Java, Fortran, C/C++, etc. concepts and standard input/ output operations. e-Agriculture, Concepts, design and development, Application of innovative ways to use information and communication technologies (IT) in Agriculture, Computer Models in Agriculture: Statistical, weather analysis and crop simulation models, concepts, structure, inputs outputs files, limitation, advantages and application of models for understanding plant processes, sensitivity, verification, calibrationandvalidation, IT applications for computation of water and nutrient requirement of crops, e-Agriculture, Concepts, design and development, Application of innovative ways to use information and communication technologies (IT) in Agriculture, Computer Models in Agriculture: Statistical, weather analysis and crop simulation models, concepts, structure, inputs outputs files, limitation, advantages and application of models for understanding plant processes, sensitivity, verification, calibrationandvalidation, IT app cations for computation of water and nutrient requirement of crops etc.

1. Introduction to Computers, Anatomy of Computers, Memory Concepts, Units of Memory, Operating System: Definition and types, Applications of MS-Office for creating, Editing and Formatting a document 5
2. Computer programming: General concepts, Introduction to Visual Basic, Java, Fortran, C/C++, etc. concepts and standard input/ output operations. 5
3. e-Agriculture, Concepts, design and development, Application of innovative ways to use information and communication technologies (IT) in Agriculture, 5
4. Computer Models in Agriculture: Statistical, weather analysis and crop simulation models, concepts, structure, inputs-outputs files, limitation, advantages and application of models for understanding plant processes, sensitivity, verification, calibration and validation, 6
5. Computer Models in Agriculture: Statistical, weather analysis and crop simulation models, concepts, structure, inputs-outputs files, limitation, advantages and application of models for understanding plant processes, sensitivity, verification, calibration and validation, 6
6. IT applications for computation of water and nutrient requirement of crops, e-Agriculture, Concepts, design and development, Application of innovative ways to use information and communication technologies (IT) in Agriculture, Computer Models in Agriculture: Statistical, weather analysis and crop simulation models, concepts, structure, inputs-outputs files, limitation, advantages and application of models for understanding plant processes, sensitivity, verification, calibration and validation 6
7. IT applications for computation of water and nutrient requirement of Crops etc. 5