Abstract: Cultivation-reading education means “Reading while Cultivating”,is an important part of Chinese outstanding traditional culture,which plays an important role in our traditional education and personnel training system.Tillage course is a compulsory course of agronomy which is closely connected with theory and practice in higher agricultural universities.In order to adapt to the new form of agricultural development,give full play to the school-running characteristics of the university,and cultivate the characteristics of application-oriented talents.This study analyzed the current teaching situation and existing problems of the tillage course of Heilongjiang Bayi Agriculture University,from the aspects of optimizing the teaching content,integrating the cultivation education and perfecting the assessment system to think about the construction of the tillage course,and put forward specific reform measures.Through the practice of the course reform,the effective combination of cultivation-reading education will cultivate the students’ comprehensive quality,and foster the all-round development of application-oriented agricultural talents in the new era for our agricultural modernization construction.