Overview
Describe: - pre-planting, - planting, - post planting, - harvesting and - post harvesting operations Perform the various cultural practices above Explain the benefits of timely harvesting of crops
What you'll learn
- Pre-planting operations:
- - Choice of site
- - Clearing
- - Stumping
- - Plotting
- - Tilling/ ploughing, harrowing, ridging
- - Seed selection
- - Nursery and nursery practices
- Planting operations:
- - Seed treatment
- - Spacing and planting
- Post planting operations:
- - Thinning
- - Supplying
- - mulching
- - Manuring/
- -fertilizer application
- - Harvesting
- Effects of timely harvesting versus late harvesting
- Post-harvest operation:
- - processing of crop into useable forms
- - storage, etc