COURSE CODE: PRM 505
COURSE TITLE: Principles of Pasture and Range Sciences
NUMBER OF UNITS: 3units
COURSE DURATION: Two hours lecture and three hours practical per week
COURSE DETAILS:
Course Coordinator: Prof. Alaba Olufunmilayo Jolaosho
Email: jolaoshoao@unaab.edu.ng
Office Location: Room 2, PRM Department, COLANIM
Other Lecturers: Dr. T. A. Amole, Dr. (Mrs.) Ojo V.O.A.
COURSE SYNOPSIS:
Botany and systematics of pasture plants, identification and classification of tropical forage species, pasture improvement programmes and breeding, methods of propagation, physiology of pasture plants, tropical climate and implication on pasture production, vegetation belts of West Africa and adaptation of forage species, soil – plant – animal interrelationships, some pasture terminologies