The Agsci 111 - Postharvest Handling and Seed Technology contains learning guides from Module 1 to Module 4A and 4B.  

The Hort 197 - Methods of Agricultural Research laboratory subject provides the students with the learning exercises from 1 - 6.  These laboratory exercises contain activities related to the formulation of a research study.  At the end of the course the students shall be able to produce a thesis outline.  

The course presents the definition and classification of vegetables, current trends and status of the vegetable industry, nutritional and economic importance of vegetables, types of vegetable production and factors that affect the growth and development of crops. 

Science is one of the most important apparatus in application of scientific knowledge that helps to satisfy many basic human needs and improve living standards but we should not forget that the most important instrument in research must always be the mind of man. It is true that much time and efforts is devoted to training and equipping the scientist’s mind but little attention is paid to the technicalities


The subject is a course requirement for the students taking Bachelor of Science in Agriculture major in Horticulture.  This provides the students the opportunity to learn on how to prepare their research topic for presentation and how to behave on stage when they deliver the topic during presentation.  Also, this provides an opportunity for the students’ research outline to be shared and discussed during presentation where ideas, comments and suggestions raised may help improve their research topic.

This course is developed to include the basic principles and practices involved in tissue culture for micropropagation of horticultural crops.