{"id":13160,"date":"2021-02-06T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/?p=13160"},"modified":"2021-08-17T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:38:01","slug":"iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Kharagpur Syllabus Crop Production Technology 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IIT Kharagpur Syllabus Crop Production technology:\u00a0<\/strong>Go through the article to have detailed IIT Kharagpur Syllabus for Crop Production technology.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_47_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#crop-production-technology-lab\" title=\"Crop Production Technology Lab\u00a0\">Crop Production Technology Lab\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#thermal-operations-in-food-processing\" title=\"Thermal Operations in Food Processing\">Thermal Operations in Food Processing<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#dairy-process-engineering\" title=\"Dairy Process Engineering\">Dairy Process Engineering<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#industrial-processing-of-foods-and-beverages\" title=\"Industrial Processing of Foods and Beverages\">Industrial Processing of Foods and Beverages<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#food-handling-packaging-and-storage\" title=\"Food Handling, Packaging and Storage\">Food Handling, Packaging and Storage<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#precision-agriculture\" title=\"Precision Agriculture\">Precision Agriculture<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#electronics-application-in-agriculture\" title=\"Electronics Application in Agriculture\">Electronics Application in Agriculture<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#mechanism-dynamics-of-machinery\" title=\"Mechanism &amp; Dynamics of Machinery\">Mechanism &amp; Dynamics of Machinery<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#water-quality-management\" title=\"Water Quality Management\">Water Quality Management<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#food-science-and-technology-laboratory\" title=\"Food Science and Technology Laboratory\">Food Science and Technology Laboratory<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#iit-kharagpur-crop-production-technology-syllabus-post-harvest-engineering\" title=\"IIT Kharagpur crop production technology syllabus: Post Harvest Engineering\u00a0\">IIT Kharagpur crop production technology syllabus: Post Harvest Engineering\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology\/#gis-principles-applications\" title=\"GIS Principles &amp; Applications\">GIS Principles &amp; Applications<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"iit-kharagpur-syllabus-crop-production-technology-2021\"><\/span><strong>IIT Kharagpur Syllabus Crop Production technology 2021<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"cad-and-simulation-of-agricultural-machinery\"><\/span><strong>CAD and Simulation of Agricultural Machinery<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Computer Representation: Representation of two and three dimensional<\/p>\n<p>objects. Scaling, translation and rotation. Clipping. Rendering. Animation.<\/p>\n<p>Machine Vision: Digital image analysis. Automated thinning and pruning of<\/p>\n<p>plants. Site specific spray application.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis and Design: Force analysis and design of tillage implements, soil<\/p>\n<p>moving equipments and harvesting equipments.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"crop-production-technology-lab\"><\/span><strong>Crop Production Technology Lab\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>0 &#8211; 0 &#8211; 3 : 2 Credits<\/p>\n<p>Identification of crops; Seed quality, germination, viability and vigor;<\/p>\n<p>Estimation of agro-input requirement and their field application; Plantation<\/p>\n<p>techniques and raising of field crops; Biometrics Observations: growth, leaf<\/p>\n<p>area index, yield and yield attributes, and yield estimation; Chemical<\/p>\n<p>analysis of plant for macro and micronutrients; Crop quality testing.<\/p>\n<p>Field experimental design; Field visit; Calibration and evaluation of crop<\/p>\n<p>model.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"thermal-operations-in-food-processing\"><\/span><strong>Thermal Operations in Food Processing<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>3 &#8211; 0 &#8211; 0 : 3 Credits Prerequsites: None<\/p>\n<p>Overview of thermal operations carried out in dairy and food processing.<\/p>\n<p>Pasteurization and Sterilization: microbial destruction in batch and<\/p>\n<p>continuous sterilization; kinetics of loss of nutrients in sterilization; UHT<\/p>\n<p>processing; action of chemicals on death kinetics of microbes; aseptic<\/p>\n<p>packaging; irradiation and microwave processing of foods; Effects of heat,<\/p>\n<p>acid and short wave electromagnetic radiation on kinetics of enzyme<\/p>\n<p>inactivation.<\/p>\n<p>Crystallization and Freezing: Plank\u2019s law and estimation of freezing time of<\/p>\n<p>foods; equipment used for freezing water in food for production of crystalline<\/p>\n<p>foods, e.g. sucrose and lactose; freeze concentration of liquid food.<\/p>\n<p>Concentration and Evaporation: Concentration of liquid foods in batch and<\/p>\n<p>continuous type evaporators; heat and energy balance in multiple effect<\/p>\n<p>evaporators; design of calendria in the evaporators, falling and rising film<\/p>\n<p>evaporators; mechanical and thermal vapour recompression systems. Water Relation to Foods: roles of water and activity in foods; control of<\/p>\n<p>water activity by addition of solute and moisture removal; measurement of<\/p>\n<p>water activity; different models of sorption isotherms, their limitations and<\/p>\n<p>applicability, prediction and moderation of water activity of foods.<\/p>\n<p>Drying of Foods: various mechanisms of moisture removal in solid and liquid<\/p>\n<p>foods during drying; properties of air-water vapour mixture; drying<\/p>\n<p>operations based on conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer;<\/p>\n<p>spray, freeze, roller, tray and through-flow drying operations.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"dairy-process-engineering\"><\/span><strong>Dairy Process Engineering<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>3 &#8211; 0 &#8211; 0 : 3 Credits Prerequsites: None<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentals of Dairy Chemistry: Roles of lipids, proteins, carbohydrates,<\/p>\n<p>minerals, vitamins and enzymes.<\/p>\n<p>Dairy Microbiology: Importance of psychrophilic, mesophilic and thermophilic<\/p>\n<p>spoilage organisms in storage, pasteurization and sterilization.<\/p>\n<p>Cream Separation: Principles of separation, equipment, effectiveness, cut-off<\/p>\n<p>diameter and energy requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Homogenization: Principle of operation, design calculation for laminar and<\/p>\n<p>turbulent regimes. Concentration and Evaporation: Water and solid balance: Boiling point<\/p>\n<p>elevation- pressure\/temperature relationship; Falling and rising film<\/p>\n<p>evaporators, thermocompressors, steam economy.<\/p>\n<p>Pasteurization and Sterilization: Decimal reduction time, Z value, activation<\/p>\n<p>energy, sterilizing value, nutrient destruction; Equipment for pasteurization,<\/p>\n<p>direct and indirect sterilization; Ultra\u00a0 &#8211; High\u00a0 &#8211; Temperature (UHT)<\/p>\n<p>sterilization.<\/p>\n<p>Spray Drying: Efficiency and energy consumption in spray drying: Cyclone<\/p>\n<p>separation principle; Instantization &#8211; fluidized bed drying.<\/p>\n<p>Dairy Products Manufacturing: Buttermaking; Ice-cream manufacture;<\/p>\n<p>Cheese making; Malted milk drinks; Indigenous dairy products<\/p>\n<p>manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Chlorination of Water: Chlorination principle for microbiological safety.<\/p>\n<p>Plant Sanitation: Sanitation chemistry, CIP cleaning, equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Effluent Treatment: Pollution control in dairy plant: BOD, COD, enzyme<\/p>\n<p>kinetics, continuous stirred tank reactor, activated sludge system, trickle<\/p>\n<p>filter.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"industrial-processing-of-foods-and-beverages\"><\/span><strong>Industrial Processing of Foods and Beverages<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>3 &#8211; 0 &#8211; 0 : 3 Credits Prerequsites: None<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentals of Food Processing: Food processing equipment, its operation,<\/p>\n<p>maintenance, cleaning and sanitizing.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial Manufacture of Selected Foods and Beverages: Process and<\/p>\n<p>material flow diagrams and identification and control of critical operations.<\/p>\n<p>Product ingredients, formulation, composition and characteristics;<\/p>\n<p>Processing, factors affecting product characteristics and measurement of<\/p>\n<p>quality attributes; Packaging and quality control.<\/p>\n<p>Food Products: Bakery products\u00a0 &#8211; bread, biscuit, cakes and quick breads;<\/p>\n<p>Convenience foods\u00a0 &#8211; macaroni and pasta products, noodles and vermicelli.<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast and RTE cereals; Condiments and confections. Energy and health<\/p>\n<p>foods; Infant and baby foods; Food premixes. Structured and textured protein products. Beverages: Alcoholic- beer, wine and distilled spirits; Nonalcoholic\u00a0 &#8211; soft drinks, soda\/mineral water and fruit beverages; Essence and flavours: tea, coffee, cocoa and energy drinks. System control in beverage industry.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"food-handling-packaging-and-storage\"><\/span><strong>Food Handling, Packaging and Storage<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>3 &#8211; 0 &#8211; 0 : 3 Credits Prerequsites: None<\/p>\n<p>Material Handling: Solids and\u00a0 granular materials handling\u00a0 &#8211; elevators,<\/p>\n<p>conveyors; Pumps\u00a0 &#8211; centrifugal and positive displacement; Liquid filling<\/p>\n<p>machines &#8211; open vent, closed vent and piston fillers.<\/p>\n<p>Packaging Materials: Polymer Films\u00a0 &#8211; Physical, chemical and permeability<\/p>\n<p>properties, manufacturing methods, testing and identification, permeability<\/p>\n<p>modeling, migration of chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>Metal Containers: Strength requirement, seaming and coating properties,<\/p>\n<p>contamination from lacquers.<\/p>\n<p>Flexible Packages: Paperboard, lamination and sealing techniques,<\/p>\n<p>machinery for forming packages.<\/p>\n<p>Special Packing: Gas, vacuum and aseptic packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Food Packaging: Requirements for cereals, meat, poultry, fish, milk,<\/p>\n<p>vegetables, fruits, plantation crop based products and carbonated<\/p>\n<p>beverages.<\/p>\n<p>Storage Principle and Practice: Storage losses and their estimation: Modified<\/p>\n<p>and control atmosphere storage: Bin and silo storage for cereals and pulses;<\/p>\n<p>Loss in cereal quality &#8211; insect and pest control. Design of storage structures<\/p>\n<p>and facilities including cold storage.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"precision-agriculture\"><\/span><strong>Precision Agriculture<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>3 &#8211; 0 &#8211; 0 : 3 Credits Prerequsites: None Soil sensors in precision farming; Spectral based sensors; Development of<\/p>\n<p>sensors and controls; Image analysis technology; Crop yield monitors;<\/p>\n<p>Decision support systems. Remote sensing for precision agriculture; Field<\/p>\n<p>plot machines.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"electronics-application-in-agriculture\"><\/span><strong>Electronics Application in Agriculture<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>3 &#8211; 0 &#8211; 0 : 3 Credits Prerequsites: None<\/p>\n<p>Electronic measurement of engine speed, torque, wheel slip and fuel<\/p>\n<p>consumption; Force sensing in upper and lower links of tractors;<\/p>\n<p>Microprocesser based engine monitoring system; Controlled environment for<\/p>\n<p>crop production, soil conductivity and moisture measurement; Electronic<\/p>\n<p>speed counter \/ monitoring, remote control valves, measurement of nutrient<\/p>\n<p>status of crop and soil; Photovoltaic calls for solar energy utilization;<\/p>\n<p>Electronic safety relay circuits in tractor and farm machines.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"mechanism-dynamics-of-machinery\"><\/span><strong>Mechanism &amp; Dynamics of Machinery<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>3 &#8211; 0 &#8211; 0 : 3 Credits Prerequsites: AG34001 Mechanism: Mechanisms and conversion of motion. Analysis and synthesis<\/p>\n<p>of simple mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>Farm Machinery Mechanisms: Mechanisms used in crop production and<\/p>\n<p>processing machines.<\/p>\n<p>Friction Devices: Friction. Belt, rope and chain drives. Brakes and<\/p>\n<p>dynamometers.<\/p>\n<p>Common mechanisms: Gearing. Tractor gear trains. Cams. Governors.<\/p>\n<p>Balancing: Balancing of rotating and reciprocating parts. Flywheel.<\/p>\n<p>Introduction to vibration in machines.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"water-quality-management\"><\/span><strong>Water Quality Management<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Water Quality:\u00a0 Terminology, Sources of water pollutants, pollution kinetics<\/p>\n<p>and reaction mechanism.Water Quality Standards:\u00a0 International and Indian<\/p>\n<p>Standards for drinking, irrigation, industrial and aquatic use.Water Quality<\/p>\n<p>Analysis: Methods and Instruments for analysis of all water quality<\/p>\n<p>parameters. Working principles of the Instruments.Water Purification:<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical, biological and membrane filters.Reverse Osmosis:\u00a0 Principle,<\/p>\n<p>application and related instruments.Water Treatment Methods:\u00a0 Aeration,<\/p>\n<p>nitrogen removal, pH control, removal of solids and gases in water,<\/p>\n<p>disinfection and ion-exchange. Use of chlorine, bromine, iodine, KMnO4 etc.<\/p>\n<p>for disinfection.Water Treatment Plant:\u00a0 Components and Working<\/p>\n<p>Principles.Waste Water Treatment: Methods and Instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Water Quality Index:\u00a0 Principle, International and Indian standards,<\/p>\n<p>parameters considered for surface and ground water indexing.<\/p>\n<p>Water Pollution due to Pesticides and Toxic Metals: Sources of pollution and<\/p>\n<p>control<\/p>\n<p>Water Quality Modeling: Use of modeling technique, Study of the available<\/p>\n<p>models for water quality modeling.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"food-science-and-technology-laboratory\"><\/span><strong>Food Science and Technology Laboratory<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>0 &#8211; 0 &#8211; 3 : 2 Credits Prerequsites: None<\/p>\n<p>Quantitative analysis of foods for proximate composition; Determination of<\/p>\n<p>acidity and pH in food; Determination of vitamin (vitamin C); Determination<\/p>\n<p>of sugars (reducing and total); (v) Determination of crude fibers; Estimation<\/p>\n<p>of mineral content in foods; Enzyme activity assay; Testing of rancidity in<\/p>\n<p>fats and oils; Detection of adulterants in foods; Staining of microorganisms;<\/p>\n<p>Quantitative estimation of bacteria, yeast and molds; Product manufacture<\/p>\n<p>(Ghee\/Butter, Ice cream, Jam\/Jelly, Potato chips, Bread\/Biscuits\/Cake,<\/p>\n<p>Toffee\/Chocolate)<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"iit-kharagpur-crop-production-technology-syllabus-post-harvest-engineering\"><\/span><strong>IIT Kharagpur crop production technology syllabus: <\/strong><strong>Post Harvest Engineering\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>3 &#8211; 1 &#8211; 0 : 4 Credits Prerequsites: None<\/p>\n<p>Principles and machinery involved in cleaning and grading; Separation<\/p>\n<p>efficiency of grain cleaners and graders; Hydrothermal treatment and<\/p>\n<p>conditioning of grains; Principles and equipments for milling of cereals,<\/p>\n<p>pulses and oil seeds; Psychrometry: Humidification and dehumidification<\/p>\n<p>systems and their design; Principles of grain drying: Equilibrium moisture<\/p>\n<p>content and water activity; Constant rate\u00a0 and falling rate period drying;<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneous Heat and Mass Transfer in Single Grain and Grains in Bulk:<\/p>\n<p>Thin layer and deep bed drying; Grain dryers and Mathematical modeling of<\/p>\n<p>crop drying systems; Principles and practices of grain storage: Types and<\/p>\n<p>functional requirements of storage structures, handling and conveying<\/p>\n<p>equipment design.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"gis-principles-applications\"><\/span><strong>GIS Principles &amp; Applications<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>3 &#8211; 0 &#8211; 0 : 3 Credits Prerequsites: None<\/p>\n<p>GIS: Definition, importance, contributing disciplines, major areas of practical<\/p>\n<p>application.<\/p>\n<p>Map and Map Analysis: Types, characteristics and scale, use of maps,<\/p>\n<p>automated and computer assisted cartography, comparison between maps<\/p>\n<p>and GIS.<\/p>\n<p>Raster GIS: Data model, creating raster, cell values, map layers, examples<\/p>\n<p>of raster GIS, local operations, operations on neighborhood, extended<\/p>\n<p>neighborhood, and zones.<\/p>\n<p>Vector GIS: Data model, database creation, adding attributes, example<\/p>\n<p>analysis using vector GIS, Query, reclassify, merge and dissolve operations,<\/p>\n<p>comparison between raster and vector GIS.<\/p>\n<p>General Coordinate System: Cartesian, polar and global coordinate systems.<\/p>\n<p>Map Projections and Transformation: Distortion properties, geometric<\/p>\n<p>analogy and UTM, scaling, rotation and complex transformations.<\/p>\n<p>Discrete Georeferencing: Introduction and issues.<\/p>\n<p>Spatial Database Development: Fundamental database elements, database<\/p>\n<p>design, and procedure for vector database design.<\/p>\n<p>Spatial Analysis in Vector GIS: Buffering, overlaying, merge, update,<\/p>\n<p>clipping.<\/p>\n<p>Accuracy and Errors: Sources and classification of errors, accuracy<\/p>\n<p>standards. GIS Software: Features of different available software (Arc\/Info, ArcView,<\/p>\n<p>IDRISI, GRASS, etc)<\/p>\n<p>Application of GIS: irrigation planning, soil loss estimation, watershed<\/p>\n<p>mangement and hydrological modeling.<\/p>\n<p>We have provided complete details on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iitkgp.ac.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IIT Kharagpur<\/strong><\/a> Syllabus for Crop Production Technology 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IIT Kharagpur Syllabus Crop Production technology:\u00a0Go through the article to have detailed IIT Kharagpur Syllabus for Crop Production technology. IIT Kharagpur Syllabus Crop Production technology 2021 CAD and Simulation of Agricultural Machinery Computer Representation: Representation of two and three dimensional objects. Scaling, translation and rotation. Clipping. Rendering. Animation. Machine Vision: Digital image analysis. 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