Agriculture

Site Selection

Process of visiting, observing, and assessing an area for planting suitability, considering factors like field topography, soil type, and water availability.

Soil Types

Classification based on characteristics - Sand soil loses moisture, Clay soil retains moisture, Loam soil is intermediate.

Land Clearing

Clearing selected site of trees, weeds, stones, and previous crop remains using manual, mechanical, or combined methods.

Crop Planting

Involves direct or indirect seeding, with considerations like limited food storage, planting distance, and methods like placing seeds in ridges.

Agriculture

Science of growing plants and rearing animals for human use, involving activities like land clearing, plowing, sowing, caring for plants, and harvesting.

Plant Propagation

Process of increasing plant numbers from parent stock, involving sexual (seeds) and vegetative (stem, root, leaves) propagation methods.

Sexual Propagation

Involves seeds for plant reproduction, where pollen transforms to seeds with stored food material for germination.

Vegetative Propagation

Multiplication without seeds, through natural (bananas, pineapples) or artificial (layering, cutting) methods.

Specialized Vegetative Parts

Corm, tuber, suckers, rhizomes, runners, bulbs used in natural vegetative propagation for new plant production.