Tantargy

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

Within the framework of the elective course Cultivation of medicinal plants students can get acquainted with the possibilities and steps of cultivating herbs. Among other things, the lectures will present the agrotechnical operations required for cultivation, as well as the most important herbs that can be grown in Hungary or some other regions and countries.

In the practical part of the course, students can master the methodology of herb propagation and gain insight into the process of herb production.

Lectures

• 1. Credit requirements, general information about the course - Purger Dragica
• 2. Introduction of medicinal plants into cultivation - Purger Dragica
• 3. Natural conditions and opportunities for growing of medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 4. Natural conditions and opportunities for growing of medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 5. Herbs grown in Hungary - Purger Dragica
• 6. Herbs grown in other climatic regions - Purger Dragica
• 7. Soil preparation - Filep Rita
• 8. Soil preparation - Filep Rita
• 9. Fertilization - Filep Rita
• 10. Fertilization - Filep Rita
• 11. Conservation and improvement of growing sites - Filep Rita
• 12. Conservation and improvement of growing sites - Filep Rita
• 13. Seed and vegetative propagation - Purger Dragica
• 14. Seed and vegetative propagation - Purger Dragica
• 15. Plant protection from pests and weeds - Filep Rita
• 16. Plant protection from pests and weeds - Filep Rita
• 17. Harvest and processing - Purger Dragica
• 18. Harvest and processing - Purger Dragica
• 19. Written Test
• 20. Written Test

Practices

• 1. Growing medicinal plants (Botanical garden) - Purger Dragica
• 2. Growing of medicinal plants (Botanical garden) - Purger Dragica
• 3. Growing of medicinal plants (Botanical garden) - Filep Rita
• 4. Growing of medicinal plants (Botanical garden) - Filep Rita
• 5. Visit of companies engaged in the production of MP - Purger Dragica
• 6. Visit of companies engaged in the production of MP - Purger Dragica
• 7. Visit of companies engaged in the production of MP - Filep Rita
• 8. Visit of companies engaged in the production of MP - Filep Rita

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

http://jnkvv.org/PDF/AERC/Study-93.pdf

https://www.bgci.org/files/Africa/pdfs/manual_for_the_propagation_and_cultivation_of_medicinal_plants_of_ghana.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40107269_Cultivation_of_Medicinal_Plants_as_a_Tool_for_Biodiversity_Conservation_and_Poverty_Alleviation_in_the_Amatola_Region_South_Afric

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Active participation is needed.

Mid-term exams

The acquired knowledge must be reported in writing.

Making up for missed classes

Participation in the field is obligatory, it cannot be made up in case of absence.

Exam topics/questions

The grade of the test is the basis of the final grade.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Purger Dragica