Programme title

Institution/organization

Fundamentals of melioration

Contact person
Professor Eduard Kukhalashvili - Head of the Department

Contact person's address
Department of Agricultural Hydraulic-Engineering Melioration
Faculty of Land Reclamation and Engineering Ecology
Georgian State Agrarian University
13 km. David Agmashenebeli Alley
Dighomi
Tbilisi-380031
Georgia

Contact person's Telephone/Fax
Tel +995-32-536923 Fax +995-32-001153

Contact person's E-mail
[email protected]

Type of programme
Field-based
Course

Certificate
Diploma
University credits

Frequency of programme
Annual

Programme's main focus
Enhancement of the capabilities of water professionals.

Programme prospectus
Fundamentals of Melioration is intended for fourth-year undergraduate students as well as postgraduate students and degree researchers.
The curriculum includes:

- Irrigation and drainage principles
- Irrigation methods
- Drainage practice
- Melioration of saline lands

Target group
Junior professionals
University students (under and post graduate)

Dates/duration
Nine months, September - May

Language
Georgian

Georgian State Agrarian University

Acronym
GSAU

Country
Georgia

Address
Faculty of Land Reclamation and Engineering Ecology
Georgian State Agrarian University
13 km. David Agmashenebeli Alley
Dighomi
Tbilisi-380031
Georgia

Tel +995-32-522104

Fax +995-32-001153

E-mail
[email protected]

Brief description of institution/organization
In 1919 the Faculty of Agronomy was founded at Tbilisi State University. In 1929, this faculty was transformed into the Georgian Agricultural Institute. Since 1991, it has become Georgian State Agrarian University, which provides complete university-type education and prepares Bachelors and Masters of Sciences for all branches of Agricultural Science.

The Faculty of Land Reclamation and Engineering Ecology was founded in 1974. The Faculty prepares students in Land Reclamation and Engineering Ecology. The Faculty embraces the following Departments: Agricultural Hydraulic-Engineering Melioration; Hydraulic and Engineering Ecology; Engineering Construction, Building Materials and Mechanics of Grounds, Materials and Soils Mechanics; Engineering Graphics and Descriptive Geometry; Higher Mathematics and Theoretical Mechanics. The research work aims to forecast the influence of water ecosystem on the environment and to perfect methods to solve ecological tasks. The Faculty has many copyright certificates and patents.

The Department of Agricultural Hydraulic-Engineering Melioration was established in 1939. The following subjects are taught: agricultural melioration (irrigation and drainage), hydraulic engineering melioration of forest lands, operation of hydro-melioration systems, irrigative husbandry, water industry, natural disasters and their control measures (mud flows, floods, etc).