← 1.4 Field Management Practices
Field management and pruning
Agriculture · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
The care given to a crop while it grows, and pruning in particular - removing unwanted parts of vegetable and perennial crops for better yield and quality.
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Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Field management and pruning
- Top dressing and other field management practices
- Weeding a growing Kenyan crop
- Thinning, gap filling and mulching
- Pruning tomatoes on Kenyan farms
- Pruning capsicum and related vegetables
- Single-stem and multiple-stem pruning of coffee and tea
- Cutting back perennial crops
- Top dressing maize and vegetables in practice
- Staking, training and earthing up