AGR615: Plantation Management Operation / Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology

This course will interactively engage students cognitively in areas of best management practices that operate globally with emphasis on plantation
management operation components into coordinated system. Students will define, explain, and interpret the difficulties that have been encountered, to trace, historically and critically, the reasons underlying certain practices, and to draw attention to the experimental bases, where such exist, for present procedures. This course will introduce comprehensive account of the oil palm as a plant, of the industry from its early beginnings to its present stage of development, and of the work carried out in all regions to improve cultivation, production and the extraction of the products. The class will be a mix of lecture sessions, case discussions and applications. The outcomes shall be assessed through a variety of tools which include the traditional paper examination, individual assignment, case studies, and classroom engagement.