General information
| Course name | Blockveranstaltung: Agribusiness Sugar Beet - an advanced education for graduate students and junior employees of the sugar supply chain (Englisch) |
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| Course number | 740401 |
| Semester | SoSe 2024 |
| Current number of participants | 19 |
| expected number of participants | 25 |
| Home institute | Institut für Zuckerrübenforschung an der Universität Göttingen |
| Courses type | Blockveranstaltung in category Teaching |
| First date | Monday, 19.08.2024 12:45 - 16:15 |
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| Pre-requisites |
Content of teaching: In comparison to other cash crops the refining of sugar from sugar beet is characterized by a considerable degree of cooperation between agriculture and food industry. Consequently all specific impacts of the entire production chain of sugar from beet are covered by this module as there are global trade, EU Reform of the Sugar Market Regime, systems for quota and paying, plant breeding, soil cultivation, growing impacts from sowing to harvest including all technical and cultivation aspects, crop yield, extension [service][1]s, weed control, pathogen and pest management, as well as definition and analysis of the technical quality, processing technology of sugar beets, logistics of harvest and transportation, sugar as food and its marketing. The module consists of lectures by invited speakers and lecturers of the Institute of Sugar Beet Research, study and field trips. Key skills: To acquire profound knowledge in the following fields of the sugar value chain: breeding and other upstream sectors, technology of the sugar and bioethanol industry and biogas production, other downstream sectors, sugar market, [agricultural][2] [policy][3]. To identify in detail [causal][4] [relationship][5]s in the process management sugar on the basis of recent scientific knowledge. To intensify the knowledge by interpreting scientific figures and tables and their statistics. To gain from the unique opportunity of an advanced education particularly suitable as an on-the-job training program. To take the opportunity of social networking with not only other graduate students but external participants from different professional backgrounds and sugar beet growing countries worldwide, too. Examination requirements: M.Sc. after 3rd semester or junior employees of supply chain. Knowledge of the sugar value chain and understanding of different influences to the system on the basis of the latest scientific insights. [1]: http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&p=Ci4HO3kMAA&search=service&trestr=0x8001 [2]: http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&p=Ci4HO3kMAA&search=agricultural&trestr=0x401 [3]: http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&p=Ci4HO3kMAA&search=policy&trestr=0x401 [4]: http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&p=Ci4HO3kMAA&search=causal&trestr=0x8001 [5]: http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&p=Ci4HO3kMAA&search=relationship&trestr=0x8001 |
| Performance record |
→Ab hier automatisch erfasste Informationen / Beyond this point, the information is filled in automatically← Prüfungsleistung(en) je Modul / Exam details per module: * [(M.Agr.0003.Mp) Agribusiness Sugar Beet - an advanced education for graduate students and junior employees of the sugar supply chain (English)][1] * Mündlich: Di, 08.10.2024, von 10:00:00 bis 13:00:00 * Mündlich: Di, 05.11.2024, von 10:00:00 bis 13:00:00 [1]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=23190&periodId=272 |
