What this topic covers
Focuses on the functions and importance of a nursery as a supply source of high-quality seedlings. Knowledge of types of nurseries (permanent and flying/temporary). Cultural practices such as bed preparation, pricking out, stumping, stripling, hardening-off, transplanting, seed collection, storage, treatment, sowing, watering, and weeding/shading. Knowledge of nursery tools and equipment (pick-axe, shovel, rake, hoe, wheelbarrow, cutlass, watering can) and their uses. Knowledge of nursery pests (slugs/snails, termites) and diseases (damping off, rust), their damage/symptoms and control. Costing nursery establishment, including direct costs (raw materials, labour, tools) and indirect costs (stationery, consumables, maintenance, rent), and ways to control costs and record keeping.
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