Scope of Crop Science Flashcards
is the study of the world major food, feed, and fiber crops and their environment. It is a broad discipline encompassing breeding, genetics, production,and
management. It is most concerned with the selection, improvement, and production of crops useful to man.
Crop Science
– It is a systematically accumulated and tested knowledge.
Science
It is any organism belonging to the kingdom Plantae which is typically lacking of active locomotion or obvious nervous system or sensory organs and has photosynthetic ability.
Plant
It is a domesticated/cultivated plants that are grown for profit. It is usually connoting a group or population of cultivated plants.
Crop
Concerned with the observation and classification of knowledge concerning economically cultivated crops and the establishment of verifiable principles regarding their growth and development for the purpose of deriving the optimum benefit for them. It is divided into two areas as follows.
CROP SCIENCE (Major Applied Sciences)
From the Greek word “agros” meaning field and “nomos” meaning to manage. Thus, agronomy deals with the principles and practices of managing field crops and soils.
AGRONOMY (Major Applied Sciences)
From Latin word “hortus”, which means a garden (a term from the Anglo – saxon word “gyrdan” which means enclosed), and “colere” to cultivate. The concept of gardens or plants with an enclosure is different from the culture of field crops, a medieval concept. It also implies a more intensive cultivation of crops as contrasted from extensive cultivation of field crops.
It includes:
1. Pomology – fruits
2. Olericulture – vegetables
3. Floriculture – flowers
4. Nursery management
6. Landscape gardening
HORTICULTURE (Major Applied Sciences)
Modern crop production is not based on guess–work or trial and error method. Its science is derived from the adoption or application of the basic sciences of chemistry, mathematics, physics and from various applied science like physiology, meteorology, anatomy, plant breeding, etc.
As a Science
Crop science is an art because it requires skills to produce crops even if one has little or no scientific training. The art of crop science reaches its greatest expression in horticulture specifically in ornamental horticulture where plants are raised for their aesthetic qualities (floral arts and landscaping).
As an Art
Plants are not grown simply to satisfy the needs of man but to realize some profit in the process of producing it. Thus, maximization of output relative to production input is one of the guiding principles of production. Scientific knowledge about plants is utilized so that they are produced at the time when the demand and the best prices could be obtained when sold.
Examples: Production of off-season crops
As a Business
