Philosophy
Postgraduate programme in Agronomy is tailored to meet the worldwide demand for scientific expertise in the development of crop and plant production methods, farming systems, soil suitability classification and conservation.  This dissertation-oriented programme will encapsulate all that the candidates require to attain a high level of competence in the field of plant agriculture and soil management for sustainable food production.

Objectives
At the end of the programme, the students should be able to:
1.     Discover, formulate and demonstrate new principles of crop improvement and soil-crop management so as to make agriculture socially viable, profitable for the farmers and competitive on world markets.
2.     Develop disease, insect and weed management strategies for crops.
3.     Identify agriculturally useful genes from new or unique sources to improve crops nutritional
quality, pest, resistance, stress tolerance and commercial potential.
4.     Assume leadership role in academic, research, field and laboratory settings.
5.     Formulate and evaluate appropriate policy in line with plant agriculture to achieve food
sufficiently.
6.     Demonstrate the ability to design a field based research project, apply relevant research skills,
critically analyze and interpret data and work with minimal supervision.
7.     Show competence in communicating scientific findings.

Elective Courses for Specialized Areas:
(A)      Agronomy
            AGRY 873      Agronomy Research and Computer Applications (2 credits)
AGRY 882      Biotechnology in Crop Production (2 credits)
(B)       Agro Forestry
AGRY 863      Advanced Agro-forestry (2 credits)
AGRY 882      Biotechnology in Crop Production (2 credits)
(C)      Soil Science
AGRY 861      Advanced Soil Mineralogy (2 credits)
AGRY 882      Biotechnology in Crop Production (2 credits)
(D)      Plant Breeding
AGRY 872      Advanced Plant Breeding and Genetics (2 credits)
AGRY 882      Biotechnology in Crop Production (2 credits)
(E)       Horticulture
AGRY 862      Recent Advances in Horticulture (2 credits)
AGRY 882      Biotechnology in Crop Production (credits)
(F)       Crop Biotechnology
AGRY 851      Recent Advances in Crop Biotechnology (2 credits)
AGRY 882      Biotechnology in Crop Production (2 credits)

M Sc. AGRONOMY

Note:     Each student must take ONE elective course during the 1st and 2nd semesters, reflecting their choice area of specializations thus;