LAND PREPARATION AND

PLANTING MATERIAL

Aaron Bomediano
Jean kyle V. De la Rosa
LAND PREPARATION
It is a soil tillage preparing the land for agricultural
activities this is important to ensure the growth of the
crops free from rocks debris in hard to penetrate soil
LAND PREPARATION
Power Units
Man
Animals
Tractor
 Hand Tractor
 Compact four wheel Tractor
 Conventional four wheel Tractor
LAND PREPARATION
Power Units
Man
is only good for small scale
LAND PREPARATION
Power Units
Animals
which only has 0.8 horse power capacity
LAND PREPARATION
Power Units
Tractor
 Hand Tractor
LAND PREPARATION
Power Units
Tractor
 Compact four wheel Tractor
LAND PREPARATION
Power Units
Tractor
 Conventional four wheel Tractor
LAND PREPARATION
Different kinds of Tillage Operation
Conventional Tillage or Intensive Tillage
Conservational Tillage
Minimum Tillage
Zero Tillage or No Tillage
LAND PREPARATION
Different kinds of Tillage Operation
Conventional Tillage or Intensive Tillage
 it involves pre planned tillage operations followed by
secondary tillage which means it involves the additional land
preparation but with residue free surface
LAND PREPARATION
Different kinds of Tillage Operation
Conservational Tillage
 which involves tillage but maintains residue from a previous
crop on the surface maintaining crop residues reduces soil
erosion
LAND PREPARATION
Different kinds of Tillage Operation
Minimum Tillage
 reducing tillage intensity especially on crops that has roots
system which does not penetrate deep
LAND PREPARATION
Different kinds of Tillage Operation
Zero Tillage
 no tillage operations before planting
LAND PREPARATION
Types of land Preparation
Wetland or lowland Preparation

Upland or dry land Preparation

LAND PREPARATION
Types of land Preparation
Wetland or lowland Preparation
 Soaking
 Plowing
 Harrowing
 Leveling

Upland or Dry Land Preparation

 Plowing
 Harrowing
 Leveling
LAND PREPARATION
Types of land Preparation
Definitions
 Soaking - flooding the area
 Plowing - initial removal of weeds and pulverization
 Harrowing - breaking the soil into further more pieces
 Leveling - levels the land into a plain surface.
LAND PREPARATION
Types of Plows
Moldboard Plow
 Chisel Plow
Disc Plow
LAND PREPARATION
Types of Plows
Moldboard Plow
 cuts through the soil and turns it over
LAND PREPARATION
Types of Plows
Chisel Plow
 for deep tillage operations since there are certain crops which
needs deep tillage
LAND PREPARATION
Types of Plows
Disc Plow
 usually used for hard dry soils or rocky land this plows help
minimize soil erosion and often has seeding equipments
PLANTING MATERIALS
Planting material refers to seeds, seedlings, corms, or
stem cuttings. If you fail to select the good planting
material or plants for your garden, you cannot expect a
better outcome from those planting materials. That's
why it's very important for you to select the best
planting material or seeds for your garden.
PLANTING MATERIALS
Seed or planting materials of a crop or a plant is a very
important component of crop production as good seed
interacts with the good environment around it and
determines the health of the crop or plant. If the
environment is conducive and the seed is poor,
production is likely to be less.
PLANTING MATERIALS
Types of planting material
Conventional planting material
 Suckers
 Bits

Tissue-Culture Plantlets
PLANTING MATERIALS
Types of planting material
Conventional planting material
 Suckers
Suckers are the most commonly used planting materials. A
sucker is an offshoot from the base of a parent plant. This is a
very young sucker that starts to emerge from the mother plant
without definite organs. This is only utilized for establishing
nurseries.
PLANTING MATERIALS
Types of planting material
Conventional planting material
 Bits
Bits are derived from dividing large parent rhizomes after
harvest or by gouging out the central growing point of a
smaller pared sucker to stimulate the growth of auxiliary buds
that will grow into plants. Large rhizomes can be split into
several bits, each with a prominent side bud.
PLANTING MATERIALS
Rhizomes
A rhizome is a modified subterranean plant stem that
sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are
also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks.
Rhizomes develop from auxiliary buds and grow
horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to
allow new shoots to grow upwards.
PLANTING MATERIALS
Types of planting material
Tissue-Culture Plantlets
This are used almost exclusively in commercial
production systems, but are increasingly used by
farmers making the transitions from substance farming
to income generation.
Tissue culture is a process whereby copies of a
plant's growing point are produced on a sterile culture
medium.  The basic procedure consists in isolating the
apical meristems and inducing it to form shoots.
PLANTING MATERIALS
Advantages and disadvantages
Conventional planting materials require less input and
can be planted immediately in the field, unlike the more
fragile tissue-culture plantlets, which need to be
hardened before planting. Tissue-culture plantlets also
require appropriate management practices right after
being transplanted to the field.
PLANT MATERIALS
Advantages and disadvantages
Conventional planting materials grow more slowly than
tissue-culture plantlets and produce smaller bunches.
Besides producing larger bunches, tissue-culture
plantlets reduce the time between harvests. They also
grow and flower more uniformly, which makes their
harvesting and marketing more predictable.
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REFERENCES:
https
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20type%20of%20planting%20material,(also%20called
%20corm%20pieces
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https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-practices-mana
gement/crop-livestock-practices/soil-tillage-and-crop
-rotation/#:~:text=Tillage%E2%80%94turning%20the
%20soil%20to,greenhouse%20gases%20into%20the%
20atmosphere
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https://car.tesda.gov.ph/tesdacar/land-preparation-is-
the-key-to-a-successful-crop-production/#:~:text=Lan