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← 1.4 Field Management Practices

Cutting back perennial crops

Agriculture · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

Shortening old unproductive wood on coffee, mango, citrus and banana stools so new fruitful growth replaces a tired thicket, cycling the work so the farm still has income.

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. Field management and pruning
  2. Top dressing and other field management practices
  3. Weeding a growing Kenyan crop
  4. Thinning, gap filling and mulching
  5. Pruning tomatoes on Kenyan farms
  6. Pruning capsicum and related vegetables
  7. Single-stem and multiple-stem pruning of coffee and tea
  8. Cutting back perennial crops
  9. Top dressing maize and vegetables in practice
  10. Staking, training and earthing up