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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Recent Trends in Agriculture Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Syllabus for Recent trends in agriculture

Major elective · Rural Studies · Semester 6 · TY BA · 4 credits · 100 marks · 60 hours

Module 1: Recent Trends in Agriculture

  • 1 Concept of Sustainable Agriculture
  • 2 Factors of Sustainable
  • 3 Importances of Sustainable Agriculture
  • 4 Concept and Factors of Organic Farming
  • 5 Benefits of Organic Farming

Module 2: Green House and Tissue Culture

  • 1 Concept of Green House
  • 2 Types of Green House
  • 3 Importances of Green House
  • 4 Concept and Technics Tissue Culture
  • 5 Importances of Tissue Culture

Module 3: Use of Artificial Intelligence in Indian Agriculture

  • 1 Role of Artificial Intelligence across the agricultural value chain
  • 2 Artificial Intelligence driven decision-making vs. traditional farming and key terminologies.
  • 3 Agricultural Data Landscape
  • 4 Sources of Data (Sensors, Satellites)

Module 4: Image Processing, Computer Vision and Automation in agriculture

  • 1 Identifying Plant Stress
  • 2 Identifying Pests and Disease via Images
  • 3 Introduction to Agricultural Robotics & Automation
  • 4 Automated Weed Detection and Control
  • 5 Automated Machinery for Planting and Harvesting

Text Books

  • 1 Talari J.M. Naik V.G and Jalgaonkar.V.N. Introduction to Agriculture economics Agriculture Business Management
  • 2 Agarwal A.N.- Indian Economy, Problems of development and Planning
  • 3 Achray S.S. and Agarwal N.L Agriculture marketing in India
  • 4 Ruddar Dutta, S dhram K.P.M Indian Economy S. Chandand Company Limited, New Delhi- 110055.
  • 5 Economic of Farm Production and Management
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