Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1.       Understand the influence of environment on crops;

2.       Know and appreciate the historical and broad climatic factors which determine the distribution of agricultural plants in PNG;

3.       Describe the botanical and chemical features of agricultural plants important in PNG;

4.       Understand the morphology and life cycles of agricultural plants in PNG;

5.       Identify unknown species with keys using the morphological characters;

6.       Understand the agro-ecosystems, the relationships among the components and appreciate the vulnerabilities