| CODE | AGR1403 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Principles of Farm Management | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Rural Sciences and Food Systems | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Objectives: To acquaint the students with the basic principles in managing agricultural resources within the farm Contents: Principles of agricultural production and resource use-factor, factor-product, and product-product relationship. Farm-farm costs and revenue theories. Types of farm records and their uses. Farm and planning methods including budgeting, gross margin analysis, and programme planning. Principles of mechanization and agricultural engineering. Reading List: - Ronald Kay, Farm Management |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||||||
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