SESSION 1 Flashcards
Understanding of the cultivation management, production and processing of crops and how scientific principles can be applied to these.
Crop Science
aimed at producing productivity and quality and to maximize money returns.
Crop Production
Negative effects of the environment
Over use of the application of fertilizer
What covers a whole range of operations from planting to harvesting?
Crop Production
Soil preparation, instructions for constructions, seed selection, prepares the land, produce goods seeds.
Pre-Installation method
Sowing, planting, Transplanting, weeding to harvest
General Management Practices
Multiple processes that are geared to improve the growth, yield and development of agricultural crops.
Crop Production Management
Why do we have to manage the crops properly?
To have a bountiful harvest by the end of the season
Crop Production is important because
Supports the huge population of a country
Crop Production is important because
Individuals depends on the crops for their food
Crop production is important because
Provides employment to a large number of people
2 Crop Groups
Agronomic and Horticultural
Grown on the farm under a system of extensive and large scale care
Agronomic
Group of herbaceous plants in the Graminacea family
Cereal or grain crops
grown under a system of intensive culture
Horticultural crops
