Department of Agronomy

College of Agriculture and Science

Visayas State University

Visca, Baybay City, Leyte

Name: Joshua Paul G. Lamberte Course Number: Agro21

Laboratory Instructor: Ms. Lovely Vasquez Paderes Offering Number: C234

Exercise No.4

“Cultural Management Practices in Field Crop Production”

Introduction:

In crop production there are practices or management need to adopt to make the crop

grow favorable to their growth and development. It includes the techniques which can utilize

by the farmers to maximize the crop productivity. It is important to understand the cultural

management as well as its type. Cultural management are the activities or operations

performed by a farmer in the field before, during and after crops have been planted. Including

the decision on the crops to be grown, time, manner of planting, crop sanitation and tillage,

fertilizer application, irrigation up to the harvesting time. In this activity we will find out the

different method or cultural management practices applied to their crop production from land

preparation to harvesting.

Objective:

1. Acquaint yourself with the different cultural practices employed by the farmer on a

specific crop and the reasons(s) for using them.

 Methodology:

In this exercise using the materials provided such as ballpen, paper and also cellphone

for documentation, I had visited 2 Farmers in our locality, one is growing a rice and the other

is growing a peanut. As I approached to them, I asked several question regarding to the

cultural management practices applied to their crop production from land preparation to

harvesting. All the gathered information was tabulated. (See table 1)

Results and Discussion

Table 1. Cultural Management Practices in field crop Production.

Cultural How Is It When Is It Why Is It

Farmer Crop
Management Done? Done? Done?
To determine
the suitable
18 kilos hybrid
quality seeds
SEED seeds provided Before land
to be utilized
SELECTION by Department preparation
in the crop
of Agriculture.
production
process.

To improve
soil
By
granulation
Discing
and to have a
uniform soil.
LAND
DATCHE RICE To pulverize
FULACHE Oryza sativa PREPARATION
Month of soil and to
By APRIL break crop
and
harrowing residues and
(1-month to uproot
SEED BED
Preparation) weeds.
MAKING

By To level the
leveling soil

SEED Expose to the To determine

 After land
preparation
sun
(Expose for
2hrs) unwanted
seeds.

24 hours
after
Soak in water
exposing
under the sun

When it is
already
drained.
Sacking /
(16 hours
packing
PREPARATION inside the
sack/
cellophane)

For easy
After 16 germination
hours of seeds
Soak again in
Soak for
water
about 24
hours

2-3 days
Final sacking
Before
/ packing
planting
Use complete
fertilizer and To improve
After 15
other fertilizer and maintain
days after
contain with the nutrient
FERTILIZER planting
sulphate. content in the
APPLICATION
soil needed
After 45 for the crop
Top dressing days after production.
planting

PEST No specific To keep away

Bait traps
CONTROL date from any
 Apply
rodenticides
(when the attacking pest
pest and that can harm
Apply rodents the crop.
Pesticides attack)

Cultural How Is It When Is It Why Is It

Farmer Crop
Management Done? Done? Done?

To break any
Between the
crusted soil.
SEED BED / month of
By
LAND May & June
Tilling Easy
PREPARATION (summer
controlling
time)
the weeds.
To attain the
desired plant
To leave 16
1 week after population
THINNING plants per
sowing and minimize
linear meter
competition
among plants.

Before the
RAYMOND MUNGBEAN branch To know the
IJOLEN Vigna radiata (L.)
FERTILIZER By develop. appropriate
APPLICATION Soil testing. (Early fertilizer to
Growth apply.
stage)

Proper Early
storing and germination
To keep away
PEST applying period.
from any
CONTROL some non-
attacking pest.
toxic Storing
chemical period.

The table shows that the cultural management employed by the farmers are mostly

similar but only differ in ways or process of doing it.

Answer to Question:

1. Can you enumerate the different cultural management practices employed by

the farmer before planting?

 For cereal production (rice) it was done by Seed Selection, Land

Preparation, Seed Preparation, Fertilizer Application, and pest control.

On the other hand, for Legumes production (mungbean) it was done same to

the cereal but differ in methods or process.

2. Can you give reason why they are doing this?

 The reason why they are doing this in order for their crop grow a favorable

and a good crop productivity. And also, the consumer will love and be

satisfied to their product.

3. Do cultural management practices employed to corn or rice production differ

from the mungbean or peanut or any legumes?

 Not so, actually they are the same, they only differ in the process of land

preparation and fertilizer application.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, there are a lot of cultural management we can do to have a good and

favorable growth development of our crop. Most of them are similar practices whatever crop

you planted but they only differ is in a way how it was done.

References:

 “Agricultural Cultural Practices (meaning of Cultural Practices)” retrieved on

December 8, 2021 from https://classnotes.com.ng.

Documentation:

A. Mr. Datche Fulache (Rice Production)

B. Mr. Raymond Ijolen (Mungbean Production)