Contributions of Related Sciences to Crop Production

Question 1

Concerned with the improvement of the inherent or inheritable properties of crops

Answer 1

Plant Breeding and Genetics

Question 2

Concerned with plant structures, processes and relationships among plants as well as to their environment

Answer 2

2. Botany

Question 3

Study of nature and properties of soil, fundamental principles upon which proper soil management is based

Answer 3

3. Soil Sciences

Question 4

Concerned with insect pests, pathogens and weeds, their nature, as well as their management

Answer 4

4. Plant Pathology and Entomology

Question 5

structures, farm machinery, water management as well as waste disposal

Answer 5

5. Agricultural Engineering
   Concerned with farm

Question 6

Concerned with the economics of production and marketing of agricultural products

Answer 6

6. Agricultural Economics

Question 7

Concerned with the study of weather and climate. The study of meteorology enables one to do weather forecasting and thus help the farmer minimize losses due to bad weather.

Answer 7

7. Agricultural Meteorology