Lublin, Poland

Global Management in Smart Agriculture

Bachelor's - engineer
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⇑Global Management in Smart Agriculture at UP w Lublinie

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: up.lublin.pl/english

⇑Test: Is Global Management in Smart Agriculture the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A drone has mapped a field and shows a patch where the crops look weaker. What would you like to do?

2. How do you feel about spending a day on a farm, among fields, machinery and livestock?

3. Soil moisture sensors send data to an app every hour. What would you do with it?

4. A drought has cut the harvest and grain prices are rising. How would you run the farm business?

5. A food company wants to trace every product back to the field it came from. Would you like to design that system?

6. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll work on farm management projects with students from many countries. How do you see that?

7. A farm is deciding between buying an autonomous tractor and hiring more workers. How would you help?

8. How do you feel about topics such as soil health, crop rotation and using less fertiliser?

9. You’re leading a team of seasonal workers, and the harvest must be finished before the rain arrives. How do you handle it?

10. What motivates you most to study Global Management in Smart Agriculture?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture dates back thousands of years; people gathered wild grains at least 105,000 years ago, and began to plant them around 11,500 years ago, before they became domesticated. Pigs, sheep, and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Crops originate from at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture has in the past century become the dominant agricultural method.
Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources. The term "management" may also refer to those people who manage an organization.
Agriculture
We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about — farming replacing hunting.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau in Interview (17 July 1971); Cited in: Elizabeth Brubaker et al. (2008) Breath of Fresh Air, p. 180.
Agriculture
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice;
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress;
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
W. H. Auden In Memory of W.B. Yeats (1939), Lines 66-77.
Agriculture
I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.
Ian Wilmut Interview at the Academy of Acheivement (23 May 1998).
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