Agricultural science
The Agricultural Sciences ( rare agricultural science or agronomy ) deal with all matters relating to the primary production of human and animal food and renewable raw materials. One of the founders is Albrecht Thaer. In addition to the inclusion of many sub-areas in other disciplines, there are separate disciplines of agricultural sciences. A common reason classification they divided into crop production, animal sciences and agricultural economics.
Agricultural Engineer / Agronomist
Agricultural engineer or agronomist is a professional designation for the production of technical and scientific field of agriculture. Agricultural engineers are professional or managerial at the interface of science (biology, chemistry, engineering, and economics), management and agricultural practices. Other fields of activity are more rural areas in agricultural policy, marketing of agricultural products, nature conservation, spatial planning and development structure. Agricultural experts are also interdisciplinary in development aid projects in the developing world in the development of rural areas (eg GTZ) or special projects of multilateral cooperation used. This all-round qualities or coordination functions between different specialists are in demand. Other specializations are plant doctor, horticultural engineer, etc.
Fields of activity
Agricultural engineers work in research and teaching, lessons, court experts, appraisals, management, farm management, consulting and private sector.
Branches and disciplines
- Plant Sciences: a modern collective term for sub-basin as crop science, bioinformatics, plant nutrition, plant breeding, plant pathology, weed science and entomology. Even the horticultural heard this.
- Animal Science: include sub-areas such as animal nutrition, animal breeding, animal husbandry, veterinary medicine and physiology.
- The agrarian economic and social sciences include disciplines such as Agricultural Economics ( Farm Management and Agribusiness, including, Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Marketing )
- Agricultural History,
- Rural Sociology,
- The agrarian natural and engineering sciences Agricultural technology ( in agricultural machinery engineering)
- Agricultural Geography
- Soil Science
- Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology
- Ökolandbau-Forschung/Ökologische Agricultural Sciences
Academic qualifications
In the past ( agr Dipl. -Ing. ) Was in Germany in diploma courses, the academic degree awarded for professional engineers. Degrees at colleges can be seen as a rule on the additional ( FH). In the course of the Bologna process today provide most higher education institutions in Germany to the tiered study system with the Bachelor and Master degrees.
Places of Study
A study of agricultural sciences is possible in Germany at the following universities with different focuses and disciplines:
- Georg -August- University of Göttingen
- University of Hohenheim
- Technical University of Munich
- Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin
- Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Justus -Liebig- University Giessen
- Martin- Luther -University Halle -Wittenberg
- Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel
- University of Rostock
- University of Kassel
Postgraduate courses are agriculture in the tropics, subtropics and Phytomedicine offered in the fields of International Agricultural Development. A study of agricultural sciences in Switzerland at ETH Zurich possible with different focuses and disciplines, as well as at the University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna in Austria.
The central Library in Germany for the Agricultural Sciences is the ZB MED at its location in Bonn.