Agronomy VI- Fibre Crops helps you learn more about growing fibre crops for product that can be used in material, rope and other items.

This course helps you learn about the many options for growing fibre crops, for modern and traditional crops that can be grow to produce materials.

Over ten lessons, you will learn about different crops, how to grow crops and the needs that different crops have to produce an optimum yield.

Lessons covered in this course:

Lesson 1: Scope and Nature of Fibre Crops

• Introduction
• Fibre Properties
• Fibre Uses
• Types of Fibre Crops
• Commercial Viability
• Assessing Land Characteristics
• Assessing land suitability
• Broad Acre Farming
• Crop Production Considerations
• Production Systems
• Crop Rotation and Management
• Cover Crops
• Crop Islands

Lesson 2: Cotton – Part 1

• Cotton Production
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Crop Rotation
• Conservation Tillage
• Insects and Diseases
• Insects
• Aphids
• Armyworm
• Cotton bollworm
• Cotton Diseases
• Fungal Diseases
• Viral Diseases
• Bacterial Diseases
• Pesticides and insecticides
• Cotton Life Cycle
• Types of Cotton
• Better Cotton Initiative
• Genetic modification

Lesson 3- Cotton – Part 2

• Cotton Fibre Properties
• Improving Properties of Cotton Fibre
• Flexural testing
• Industrial Use of Cotton
• Cotton Fibre in Clothing
• Wicking
• Cotton – Milkweed blends
• Ginning
• Coloured Cotton
• Textile Dyeing
• Load Bearing Materials
• Harvesting
• Cotton Pickers
• Cotton Strippers
• Cotton Ginning
• Uses of Cotton

Lesson 4- Jute

• Types and Properties of Jute
• Jute Production
• Climatic requirements for Jute
• Jute Characteristics
• Genetic Yield Improvements
• Pests and Diseases
• Harvesting
• Uses and Consumption

Lesson 5- Industrial Hemp

• Terminology
• Types and Properties
• Cultivation
• Countries of Production
• Climate
• Soil Fertility
• Water
• Pests and Diseases
• Cost
• Genetic Modification
• Harvesting
• Uses and Consumption
• Geotextiles
• Fabric
• Carbon Capture
• Phytoremediation
• Hempseed
• Building
• Paper
• Cannabidiol

Lesson 6- Sunn Hemp and Kenaf (Deccan Hemp)

• Sunn Hemp
• Properties
• Cultivation
• Soil Fertility
• Water
• Cost
• Phytoremediation
• Pests and Diseases
• Genetic Modification
• Harvesting
• Retting
• Uses
• Fibre
• Weed Control
• Green Manure
• Biofuel
• Kenaf (Deccan Hemp)
• Types and Properties
• Cultivation
• Countries of Production
• Climate
• Soil Fertility
• Water Requirements
• Pests and Diseases
• Harvesting and Processing
• Uses and Consumption
• Textiles
• Food
• Sustainable Material
• Soil Structure
• Paper

Lesson 7- Flax

• Types and Properties
• Cultivation
• Countries of Production
• Climate
• Soil
• Water Requirement
• Pests and Diseases
• Genetic Modification
• Harvesting
• Processing
• Uses and Consumption
• Fabric
• Bio Composites and Industrial Materials
• Paper
• Bioplastic
• Food

Lesson 8- Leaf Fibres and Grass Fibre

• Abaca and sisal fibres
• Abaca
• Types and Properties
• Production and Cultivation
• Pests and Diseases
• Harvesting and Processing
• Uses and Consumption
• Sisal
• Sisal Cultivation
• Harvesting and Processing
• Uses and Consumption
• Grass Fibres – sugarcane and bamboo
• Sugarcane
• Properties
• Sugarcane Culture
• Growing & Production
• Soil Conditions
• Ratooning
• Tillage
• Crop Rotation and Break Crops
• Harvesting
• Burn-offs
• Sugarcane Straw
• Sugarcane Yield Limitations
• Pests and Diseases
• Pathogens
• Uses and Consumption
• Sugar
• Energy
• Bioethanol
• Bioplastics/Biomaterials
• Paper and containers
• Other Uses
• Alcohol – Rum
• Bamboo
• Types and Properties
• Cultivation
• Pests and Diseases
• Harvesting and Processing
• Uses and Consumption
• Food
• Fuel
• Medicine
• Building Material
• Furniture, Household Items and Accessories
• Clothing
• Paper

Lesson 9- Fruit Fibre – Coir

• Types and Properties of Coir
• Coir Production and Cultivation
• Countries of Production
• Climate
• Soil Fertility
• Water Requirement
• Cultivars
• Pests and Diseases
• Harvesting and Processing
• Uses and Consumption
• Cordage
• Horticulture
• Construction material
• Biocontrol

Lesson 10- Fibre Processing and the Fibre Future

• Fibre Quality
• Retting
• Biological Retting
• Dew Retting
• Water Retting
• Enzyme Retting
• Chemical Retting
• Mechanical Retting
• Physical Retting
• Drying
• Fibre Future
• Hybrid Composites
• Geotextiles
• Building Industry
• Car Interiors
• Genetic Improvements
• Other Fibre Sources