Diploma in Agriculture Plant Science
Course Introduction

This course is based on the job required to perform by the Junior Technicians (JT) at different levels of public and private sectors of Agriculture and community development related works in Nepal. Therefore, this curriculum is designed to provide knowledge and skills focusing on Agriculture Plant Science related to the occupation. There are six semesters in total within the period of three years. The first year courses are offered focusing on foundational and core academic subjects of Agriculture science; the second year courses are focused on basic disciplinary subjects of Agriculture Plant Science. Similarly, the third year whole courses comprise of the disciplinary subjects related to Agriculture Extension, Crop Production, and Seed Technology and so on. Moreover, the third year insists on the application of learned skills and knowledge through the project work and Internship Program. . The curriculum structure and the subject wise content that reflect the details of this curriculum. In brief, this curriculum will guide to its implementers to produce competent and highly employable middle level technical workforces in the field of Agriculture.

Objectives

The course has the following objectives:

  • Provide agronomy, horticulture, and plant protection services to local farmers and different scales of farming;
  • Deliver extension and community development services as a front-line extension workers;
  • Conduct farmers training as a local level resource person for increasing productivity of land, plant protection, land management, soil management, fertilizer application and new technology adaptation;
  • Carryout agribusiness management and cooperatives services at rural and urban areas in public and private sectors;
  • Promote various aspects of agriculture such as plant breeding, commercial vegetable production, mushroom cultivation, fruit crops production, medicinal plant production and aquaculture and fisheries;
  • Promote organic and offseason vegetables production technology, culture and farming system;
  • Communicate effectively and work collaboratively in multidisciplinary and multicultural work environments through recognizing and understanding global, environmental, social, and ethical contexts of their works; and
  • Enable to prepare business plan for establishing small scale production and service related agro-enterprise firms.

Course Module

  • Nepali
  • English I
  • Mathematics I
  • Physics I
  • Chemistry I
  • Botany I
  • Zoology I
  • English II
  • Mathematics II
  • Physics II
  • Chemistry II
  • Botany II
  • Zoology II
  • Computer Application
  • Fundamentals of Horticulture
  • Agro-metrology and assessment
    Environmental Science
  • Irrigation, Farm Mechanization and Farm Structure
  • Fundamentals of Agronomy
  • Agriculture Entomology
  • Fundamentals of Soil Science
  • Introductory Animal Husbandry
  • Soil Fertility Management
  • Cereal Crop Production
  • Plant Pathology and Mushroom Cultivation
  • Vegetable and Spice Crop Production
  • Fundamentals of Aquaculture and Fisheries
  • Agri- Economics and Farm Management
  • Industrial Crops
  • Medicinal Plants and NTFP
  • Grain legumes and Oilseed crops 
  • Fruit Crop Production
  • Post-Harvest Technology
  • Agriculture Extension and communication
  • Agribusiness, Marketing and Cooperative
  • Ornamental Horticulture
  • Seed Technology
  • Elementary Agriculture Statistics
  • Social Mobilization and Community Development
  • Entrepreneurship Development
  • Internship (Farm Practice Training)
Syllabus