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Course Title: |
SMALL FRUIT GROWING |
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Course Code: |
BAH3111PDS |
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Type of Course: |
Optional |
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Level of Course: |
First Cycle |
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Year of Study: |
3 |
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Semester: |
5 |
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ECTS Credits Allocated: |
3 |
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Theoretical (hour/week): |
1 |
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Practice (hour/week) : |
2 |
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Laboratory (hour/week) : |
0 |
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Prerequisites: |
None |
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Recommended optional programme components: |
None |
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Language: |
Turkish |
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Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
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Course Coordinator: |
Prof. Dr. ERDOĞAN BARUT |
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Course Lecturers: |
Prof.Dr. Cihat Türkben |
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Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator: |
ebarut@uludag.edu.tr
+90 224 2941473
Uludağ Üniversitesi, Ziraat Fakültesi, Bahçe Bitkileri Bölümü, 16059 Görükle, Nilüfer-BURSA
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Website: |
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Objective of the Course: |
The purpose of this course is to give students information about the identification of small fruits, strawberries, raspberry, blackberry, fig, currants and gooseberries, blueberries etc., world and Turkey production of small fruit crops, botanical relationships and its taxonomies, morphology, physiology and biology of the plants; environmental interactions (Climatic and soil conditions), propagation and nursery practices; planting considerations and culture; marketing small fruits. |
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Contribution of the Course to Professional Development |
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Learning Outcomes: |
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Students can recognize the strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, fig, currants, gooseberries, blueberries etc. and their cultivars;
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Students can produce the strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, fig, currants gooseberries and blueberries etc. ;
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Students can produce seedlings strawberry and nursery of raspberry, blackberry, fig, currants, gooseberries, blueberries etc. ;
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Students may establish orchard of strawberry raspberry, blackberry, fig, currants, gooseberries, blueberries etc.;
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Students can prune strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, fig, currants, gooseberries, blueberries ec.;
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Students may determine harvest time of strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, fig, currants, gooseberries, blueberries etc.;
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Students may prepare strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, fig, currants, gooseberries, blueberries etc. to the market;
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Theoretical |
Practical |
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History and importance of small fruits |
Visually recognize the small fruits |
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The cultural history, world and Turkey production, taxonomies, morphology and biology, cultivars, ecological requirements (climatic and soil conditions) of strawberry. |
Field examination of strawberry plant and fruit in farm |
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Production methods, planting considerations and culture, harvest, marketing of strawberry.
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Frigo strawberry seedling production and establish a strawberry farm |
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Importance, world and Turkey production, taxonomies, morphology and biology, cultivars of raspberry. |
Field examination of raspberry plant and fruit in farm |
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Ecological requirements (Climatic and soil conditions), production methods, planting considerations, pruning and training methods and culture, harvest, marketing of raspberry. |
Tecnical tour to Raspberry gardens for training and pruning |
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Importance, world and Turkey production, taxonomies, morphology and biology, cultivars of blackberry. |
Field examination of blackberry plant and fruit in farm |
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Repeating courses and midterm exam |
Phenological and pomological observations on strawberries grown under greenhouse conditions and exposed |
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Ecological requirements (Climatic and soil conditions), production methods, planting considerations, pruning and training methods and culture, harvest, marketing of blackberry. |
Tecnical tour to blackberry gardens for training and pruning |
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Importance, world and Turkey production, taxonomies, morphology and biology, cultivars of fig. |
Tecnical tour to fig (Bursa Siyahı cultivar) gardens in Bursa vicinity |
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Ecological requirements (Climatic and soil conditions), production methods, planting considerations, pruning and training methods and culture, harvest, marketing of fig. |
a special visit to the corporation which exported figs |
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Importance, world and Turkey production, taxonomies, morphology and biology, cultivars, ecological requirements (Climatic and soil conditions), production methods, planting considerations, pruning and training methods and culture, harvest, marketing of currants. |
Tecnical tour to currants gardens |
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Importance, world and Turkey production, taxonomies, morphology and biology, cultivars, ecological requirements (Climatic and soil conditions), production methods, planting considerations, pruning and training methods and culture, harvest, marketing of gooseberries.
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Tecnical tour to gooseberries gardens |
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Importance, world and Turkey production, taxonomies, morphology and biology, cultivars, ecological requirements (Climatic and soil conditions), production methods, planting considerations, pruning and training methods and culture, harvest, marketing of blueberries. |
Tecnical tour to Olimpos Mountain for blueberries grown in nature |
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Other small fruits (Rose hip, mulberries, oleaster ec.). |
Visually recognize the Rose hip, mulberries, oleaster ec. |
