Crop Husbandry and its Sub-disciplines
Agriculture , as already mentioned, is a broad discipline which covers a broad spectrum of disciplines. It is mainly divided into two main disciplines: Crop husbandry and Animal husbandry. CROP HUSBANDRY - deals with the various aspects of crops from seed sowing, on field and off-field operations, harvesting, threshing, storage and marketing of the products. It can be further divided into the following main sub-divisions; I) AGRONOMY Agronomy is the mother discipline of agriculture and defined as a pplication of plant, soil and related sciences for the improvement, production and use of field crops. It is a scientific and technology oriented approach towards raising of field crops commercially on profitable grounds and management of soil resources to meet the fundamental requirements of life (food, feed and fibre). It covers the following branches of study; 1) CROP PRODUCTION � deals with the sowing, caring, harvesting and threshing of all types of the crops. 2) CROP...