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Overview
Key facts
Sustainable intensification of agriculture as a concept aims to harmonise food production to feed a growing global population and ensure minimal damage to the environment. This is a challenging task but an essential one that will affect all of us. In order to achieve this, land managers need to be more efficient in managing water, soil and fertiliser resources. An approach to put this into practice is to increase our reliance on organic amendments in response to increasing fertiliser price and reducing supply of certain fertilisers (such as phosphorus). Organic amendments can provide a valuable resource of nutrients to meet crop requirements but needs to be managed in an efficient manner to ensure there is no compromise to yields.
Cranfield University's Organic Amendment Management of Soils programme will teach you more about this topic.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- to sustainable intensification of agriculture approach and its challenges
- Nutrient cycling in soils principles and soil/crop interactions to harness nutrient supply from organic amendments
- Available options from various organic amendments and competition arising to manage supply and availability of land bank to maximise yield
- Strategies to reduce pollution associated with farm waste management and Nitrate Vulnerable Zone
- Challenges to current practice yield plateau, phosphorus supply to meet crop response, soil tests for measuring nutrients.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 1 days
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Ecology View 16 other Short Courses in Ecology in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
This one-day short course is suitable for those involved in agronomy, fertiliser production, soil management, policy making, regulation and farming etc.
Tuition Fee
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International
375 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 375 GBP for the full programme during 1 days. -
National
375 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 375 GBP for the full programme during 1 days.
Living costs for Cranfield
700 - 1300 GBP /month
Living costs
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