Crop Production and Management

• Basic crop production practices
  • Preparation of soil
  • Sowing
  • Adding manure and fertilizers
  • Irrigation
  • Removal of weeds (weeding)
  • Harvesting
  • Threshing
  • Storage

Preparation of soil for cultivation: Loosening and upturning of the soil. This process is known as tilling or ploughing.

• Implements used in ploughing
• Plough
  • It is made up of wood and contains two parts.

                    (a) Ploughshare (strong triangular strip of iron)

                    (b) Plough shaft (main wooden axis of plough)

• • Driven with the help of animals
  • Brings nutrient rich soil to the top
  • Helps in aeration of the soil

• Hoe
  • Consists of long rod of wood or iron
  • Contains strong, broad, and bent plate of iron at one of its end
  • Driven with the help of anima…