Faculty of Science

Objectives

To enhance an appreciation of the centres of origin and spread of cultivated plants and their importance in crop improvemen

Contents

tOrigin and evolution of cultivated plants with special reference to those in Cameroon; Productivity and the economic aspects of the utilisation of world food resources; Economic aspects of land use; classification and botanical characteristics of plants used as food and as sources of fibre, oil, drugs, timber and fuel; Plant growth in crop production; Propagation of crop plants by vegetative methods – Biology of vegetative propagation; Weeds and their competition with crops.

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