The Faculty of Agriculture, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka offers a farm practise course which is Field and Vegetable Crop Management− PS 3101 for the undergraduates in Year III Semester I. The department of Plant Sciences offers and conducts this course of 6 credits and the faculty farm is the main area to conduct the practicals and the farm related trainings which is located in Bandarapuliyankulama.
Farm Practice Course
| Practical aspects of field crop management (Rice, other cereials, pulses, fibre crops, oil crops, condiments and root and tuber crops) |
| Climatic requirements of local and exotic vegetables |
| Crop selection |
| Nursary management |
| Crop maturity and maturity indices |
| Yield and yield components |
| Vegetable based cropping systems |
| Crop improvement and vegetable seed production in Sri Lanka |
| Practical aspects of principles of arrigation & soil management −conducted by Dept. of soil and water resource management. |