General Agriculture

Mendel University in Brno

Overview

Students of the General Agriculture programme of Mendel University in Brno will become acquainted with the whole area of agricultural primary production, business management and the manufacture of animal and plant products.Also included in the curriculum are the strategies that should lead to sustainable development of agriculture using economic instruments and technologies to produce an all-rounded graduate. Ideal for Bachelors with agricultural, food production and scientific educational background.

Graduate profile:

• well-versed in the typical crops planted for human or animal consumption as well as industrial and energy crops in the EU and their agro-technical requirements.

• able to identify factors influencing the production of a specific crop in a specific location.

• able to calculate the potential yield of crops in different cropping systems, and design and manage the most appropriate harvesting and primary product pre-processing approach.

• know the main groups of animals bred in the EU and farm animal husbandry production goals.

• able to recognize the factors determining production capacity as well as quality of production in terms of animal husbandry production systems and recognize biological (welfare) limits.

• acquainted with typical primary agricultural product processing technologies for the purposes of food production.

• know animal feeds and the rudiments of processing industrial crops.

• able to choose and economically assess the suitable processing of primary products in typical commodity verticals.

• can communicate with farm specialists in at least two languages and monitor work processes in primary agricultural production as well as by product processing or providing services in agriculture.

• able to act independently in evaluation and market application and verify the best way to monetize agricultural primary and secondary products.