Energy and work in agriculture, categories of agricultural and relevant equipment, energy sources and their use, safety, machinery systems in the environment of reference and their sizing.
Knowledge acquired:
Evaluation and sizing of mechanical equipment for agriculture and small-scale agro-processing with particular reference to tropical environment and developing countries
Competence acquired
Machinery systems for field, post-harvest and agro-processing operations in the tropics
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
Capacity of understanding mechanization solutions in tropical and dc agricultural environments.
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Hours reserved to private study and other individual formative activities: 96
Lectures (hours): 39
Laboratory (hours):
Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 9
Seminars (hours): 3
Stages: 0
Intermediate examinations: 3
Further information
The contents of the course may vary from one year to another also based on the interests of the students
Type of Assessment
Final discussion, written exercise, multiple choice tests,
Course program
In principle:
Introduction, definitions, energy and work in agriculture, categories of agricultural and post-harvest operations and relevant equipment, small-scale agro-processing operations and equipment, energy sources and their use, use of renewable energies in agriculture, safety in working environments, machinery systems in tropical environment, machinery systems in not-industrialized countries, sizing of the machinery system of a tropical agricultural chain.