Master's degree in

Agricultural Sciences with an emphasis on Fruit and Vegetable Production

About the program

+ Manage, plan, organize, direct, redirect and execute activities in fruit and vegetable production systems that ensure compliance with the quality standards required by national and international markets.

+ Evaluate Climate-Smart Agriculture criteria in solving problems that affect the performance of horticultural production systems.

+ To cultivate a culture that fosters the generation and deepening of knowledge to provide alternative solutions to problems in production systems. Likewise, to work in interdisciplinary teams from a transdisciplinary perspective encompassing technological, ethical, social, political, cultural, and economic dimensions.

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Institution

University of Cundinamarca.

Program Name

Master's Degree in Agricultural Sciences with emphasis on Horticulture.

Degree to be awarded

Master of Science in Agricultural Sciences.

Educational level

Postgraduate.

Type of training

University Professional.

Methodology

Information on classes: synchronous and asynchronous meetings from Monday to Friday from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm and Saturday mornings.

Academic Credits

40 credits.

Estimated duration

4 semesters.

Investment

6 SMLMV per semester. 20% discount applies for graduates and/or 10% with voter registration certificate. Discounts are cumulative.

Location of development

Virtual

Resolutions: SNIES 117469 - Resolution No. 019618 of October 30, 2024 MEN.

Professional profile

Master with a transmodern vision of agricultural production, who plans, designs and redesigns plant production systems and provides real-time solutions to the different problems that affect their efficiency and competitive effectiveness, multidimensional sustainability and production based on the use of technological tools within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Occupational profile

Graduates of the Master's Program in Agricultural Sciences with an Emphasis on Horticulture will be able to serve as leaders in the formulation and/or direction of production, marketing, transformation, entrepreneurship, research or technological development systems for fruit and vegetable production systems, with an emphasis on the use of competitive criteria, translocal sustainability and contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda.

Entry profile

Professional in agricultural sciences and related fields; preferably with experience working in vegetable and/or fruit production systems.

Mission and Vision

Mission: To train Masters in Agricultural Sciences with an emphasis on Horticulture, aware of the need to improve agricultural production both nationally and internationally, addressing the challenges of food supply in a changing and highly competitive context, under the precepts of sustainable development, adaptation to climate change and multidimensional efficiency in agricultural production systems; attending to a transmodern conception based on values and ethical principles; with the capacity to generate, design and redesign agricultural production systems in line with the needs imposed by the current world.

Vision: To be leaders in the training of Masters in Agricultural Sciences, in the national context with international projection, attending to the principles of translocality and the realities that are put forward from the use of ICT, thus originating a productive reconversion based on the development and technological transformation of horticultural production, from a transmodern conception of the sustainable use of natural resources and competitive agricultural production.

Learning path

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CADI Data analysis methods applied to agricultural production
CADI Eco-efficient irrigation and fertigation systems in fruit and vegetable crops
CADI Integrated management of soils and substrates in agricultural production
CADI GIS Applied to Precision Agriculture
CADI Advanced Phytoprotection

CADI Management of Quality, Safety and National and International Regulations for Horticultural Production
CADI Analysis of Horticultural Production Models
CADI Elective – Protected Horticulture or CADI Elective – Horticultural Marketing and Agro-export
CAI Foreign Language B2.2
CAI Science, Technology and Innovation

CADI Formulation and Evaluation of Horticultural Projects
CADI Plant Biotechnology
CADI In-Depth – Climate-Smart Agriculture or CADI In-Depth – Agricultural Production Focused on Non-Conventional Markets
CAI Foreign Language B2.2
CAI Science, Technology and Innovation

CADI Plant Postharvest Management
CADI Physiology of plant production with emphasis on fruits and vegetables
CADI In-Depth – Climate-Smart Agriculture or CADI In-Depth – Agricultural Production Focused on Non-Conventional Markets
CAI Science, Technology and Innovation

Manage, plan, organize, direct, redirect and execute activities in fruit and vegetable production systems that ensure compliance with the quality standards required by national and international markets.
Evaluate Climate-Smart Agriculture criteria in solving problems that affect the performance of horticultural production systems.
To cultivate a culture that fosters the generation and deepening of knowledge to provide alternative solutions to problems in production systems. Likewise, to work in interdisciplinary teams from a transdisciplinary perspective encompassing technological, ethical, social, political, cultural, and economic dimensions.

Duration	4 semesters
Degree	Master of Science in Agrarian Sciences with an emphasis in Fruit and Vegetable Production
Investment	Methodology: Information on classes: synchronous and asynchronous meetings from Monday to Friday from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm and Saturday mornings. Investment: 6 SMLMV per semester. 20% discount applies for graduates and/or 10% with voter registration certificate. Discounts are cumulative.
Payment methods	Bank payment, PSE, card or ICETEX Loan
Methodology	Virtual
Qualified status	Resolution No. 019618 of October 30, 2024 MEN. Faculty Agricultural Sciences.
Academic credits	40 Credits

Jorge Rico Rodríguez

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