Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) organised training on “Agronomy: Crop Rotation and Management” within the framework of OIC Cotton Training Programme (OIC-CTP) at the Mozambique Institute for Cotton in Maputo, Mozambique, on 14-18 January 2013. The course was provided by Dr Said Abd El-Tawab Farag Hamoda, an expert from Agricultural Research Centre in Egypt, and was attended by agronomists, researchers and technicians from public and private sector.

The training course on “Agronomy: Crop Rotation and Management” mainly covered the following subjects:

• Crop rotation
  • Rotations
    • Objectives of crop rotation
    • Kinds of crop rotation
    • Crop rotation and its relation to soil fertility
    • Crop rotation and its relation to weeds, insect, pests and plant diseases control
    • The kinds of crop which planting in cotton rotation
    • Fertilization under cotton rotation
  • Intercropping of cotton
    • Advantage of intercropping
    • The kinds of crops which intercropping with cotton
    • The management of crops within Intercropping
• Cotton transplanting
  • Advantage of transplanting
  • Techniques of the transplanting of cotton seedling
  • Paper pot method
  • Plastic sheet
  • Nursery preparation and transplanting
  • The management of cotton seedlings after transplanting in field
• Planting cotton under stress conditions
  • Salinity (planting cotton in salinity soil and irrigated with saline water)
  • Drought and foliar application of some drought tolerance inducers
  • High temperature
• Cotton management
  • Land preparation
  • No tillage and minimum tillage,
  • planting dates (Early and late planting),
  • Planting methods,
  • Plant population and plant distributions,
  • Replanting and Thinning,
  • Weed control
  • Pest control
  • Picking
• Fertilization in cotton
  • Mineral fertilization with NPK and Micro elements
  • Organic fertilization
  • Preparing the compost
  • Bio – fertilization
  • Super Bio fertilization
  • Elements deficiency symptoms
• Irrigation in cotton
  • Irrigation Intervals
  • Requirements of irrigation
  • New irrigation systems (Surface- Sprinkler -drip irrigation)
  • Rain fed irrigation
• The mechanization of cotton production
  • Land preparation and levelling by using LASER techniques
  • Planting with precision planters
  • Irrigation by using New irrigation systems
  • control the plant canopy size
  • Chemical applications with ultra-violate sprayers
  • Cotton picking and cleaning by using different designs of spindles and spirals system

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