Mechanization in sustainable farming

Code 555GG
Credits 6

Learning outcomes

Give an adequate and extensive knowledge that allows to the students to properly choose the agronomic strategies and the machines to be used to realize them according to the principles of sustainable management of different types of farms (farming methods, specific crops and environmental characteristics). Furthermore, the students will acquire the ability to make an appropriate choice of machines (typology and set-up) and their methods of use (adjustment and operating parameters) and will be able to correctly define the succession of interventions and to size the work chains according to the cultivated surfaces and the useful and available periods.