Special Practices on Crop production

Special Practices on Crop production (part 1)


Not all crops can be treated the way you do on other crops. Like how you grow a mango tree is very different on growing beans. So there are techniques by which plant growth is modified by controlling the environment of either the plant itself or any of its parts. Why "special"? because there are unique practices that are specifically done to particular crops or group of crops only.

1. FRUIT BAGGING. It involves enclosing, wrapping or bagging the fruits,maybe individually or as a group, with recommended materials in order to protect the fruit from possible damage it may have caused by insects, diseases, wind, birds, etc. example of these are paper wrapper on ampalaya while plastic bags, sacks, and banana leaves to jackfruit. It can also be done on banana, mango, guava, durian, macopa, cacao, papaya.



2. PROPPING. It is a practice done to provide support to branches or stalk that is common in fruit crops which tends to bend due to heavy load of fruits. Banana stalk is a great example for this. this branch loaded with maturing bunch of fruits may break due to strong winds and heavy fruit load, so this is what we want to prevent using propping. A common propping material for banana is made of two poles tied near the ends with rope or wire,it appears as scissors-like. The neck (the base of the bunch) then lodged on the "V" shape end of the poles. Propping is also done on other fruit crops like mango, santol, durian, pummelo to prevent the branches laden with fruits from topping over and to keep their fruits from touching the ground.


This is only the part one.. :P
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photos:

1.bagging mango
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2.propping banana
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