Pesticide Science is one of the important courses for the students in Plant Protection discipline to study comprehensive theory knowledge and the basic experimental skill as well as the essential method for analyzing and solving the problems. The main contents include the agricultural chemicals, biogenic pesticides and other pesticides, the preparation formulation processing and the scientific applying technology, the resistance of pests to pesticides and the management of resistance, the catabolic behavior of pesticides in environment and its influence on the ecosystem, the method for the evaluation of control efficacy of pesticides in the field and the technology for bioassay of pesticides against the pests in laboratory and quality testing and so on. The course will focus on the agricultural pharmacy theory and the application technology, and pay attention to the classification of insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. The basic mechanisms of the pesticides to control pests will be specially introduced. And also supplement the new contents concerning the screening and application of novel pesticides and their environmental toxicology. Moreover, the materials and the related information in teaching can combine the basic theory with the new knowledge from the development of agriculture pharmacy discipline in recent years.
Agriculture Engineering
农业工程是为农业生产和农村生活服务的综合性工程技术及原理。它以土壤、肥料、农业气象、育种、栽培、饲养、农业经济等学科为依据，综合应用各种工程技术，为农业生产提供各种工具、设施和能源，以求创造最适于农业生产的环境，改善农业劳动者的工作、生活条件。
