Tantargy

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2022-2023

Course director

Dr. Purger Dragica
assistant professor,
Department of Pharmacognosy
dragica@gamma.ttk.pte.hu

Number of hours/semester

Lectures: 20 hours

Practices: 8 hours

Seminars: 0 hours

Total of: 28 hours

Subject data

Code of subject: OPF-NVT-T
2 Credit
Pharmacy
Optional module
spring

Prerequisites:

OPO-G2E-T completed , OPO-G2G-T completed

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 people – max. 20 people

Available as Campus course for 20 for people.

Topic

Within the framework of the elective course Cultivation of medicinal plants students can get acquainted with the possibilities and steps of cultivating herbs. Among other things, the lectures will present the agrotechnical operations required for cultivation, as well as the most important herbs that can be grown in Hungary or some other regions and countries.
In the practical part of the course, students can master the methodology of herb propagation and gain insight into the process of herb production.

Lectures

1. Credit requirements, general information about the course - Dr. Purger Dragica
2. Introduction of medicinal plants into cultivation - Dr. Purger Dragica
3. Natural conditions and opportunities for growing of medicinal plants - Dr. Purger Dragica
4. Natural conditions and opportunities for growing of medicinal plants - Dr. Purger Dragica
5. Herbs grown in Hungary - Dr. Purger Dragica
6. Herbs grown in other climatic regions - Dr. Purger Dragica
7. Soil preparation - Dr. Filep Rita
8. Soil preparation - Dr. Filep Rita
9. Fertilization - Dr. Filep Rita
10. Fertilization - Dr. Filep Rita
11. Conservation and improvement of growing sites - Dr. Filep Rita
12. Conservation and improvement of growing sites - Dr. Filep Rita
13. Seed and vegetative propagation - Dr. Purger Dragica
14. Seed and vegetative propagation - Dr. Purger Dragica
15. Plant protection from pests and weeds - Dr. Filep Rita
16. Plant protection from pests and weeds - Dr. Filep Rita
17. Harvest and processing - Dr. Purger Dragica
18. Harvest and processing - Dr. Purger Dragica
19. Written Test - gyakorlatvezető(k)
20. Written Test - gyakorlatvezető(k)

Practices

1. Growing of medicinal plants (Botanical garden)
2. Growing of medicinal plants (Botanical garden)
3. Growing of medicinal plants (Botanical garden)
4. Growing of medicinal plants (Botanical garden)
5. Visit of companies engaged in the production of MP
6. Visit of companies engaged in the production of MP
7. Visit of companies engaged in the production of MP
8. Visit of companies engaged in the production of MP

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

http://jnkvv.org/PDF/AERC/Study-93.pdf
https://www.bgci.org/files/Africa/pdfs/manual_for_the_propagation_and_cultivation_of_medicinal_plants_of_ghana.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40107269_Cultivation_of_Medicinal_Plants_as_a_Tool_for_Biodiversity_Conservation_and_Poverty_Alleviation_in_the_Amatola_Region_South_Afric

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Maximum of 15 % absence allowed

Mid-term exams

The acquired knowledge must be reported in writing.

Making up for missed classes

Participation in the field is obligatory, it cannot be made up in case of absence.