Life as a Plantation Student

Yeah! we continued again with the maintenance. After we have done with the planting the seed in the tray and removed it on the planting bed we need to took care the plants from any insect or anything that could damaged the baby Zea mays. Once a plantation has been established, the work should not be considered finished. It will be necessary, for example, to protect the plantation against weather, fire, insects and fungi, and animals. A variety of cultural treatments also may be required to meet the purpose of the plantation. So, the first action that we need to do is to remove the weed. The weed always around the the plants grow. That weeds will absorb the nutrient from the plant to grow. That causes the plants will stunted. For your information, sweet corn's leave already eat by some insect. It make the hole of the leaves. So, we use 'Serai Wangi' as a natural pesticide. We use that because a lot of ant in our plot. We cannot spray or apply that 'Serai W...

 After our planting bed already done, we need to remove the seed who start to big because if too long the plants in the tray it can make the plant to be stunted. Why stunted? it because the plants don't have a big space for the to grow. We can see the root of plants cannot expands and the colour of the leaves also start to be yellow because didn't get enough sunlight. As you can see we transplant the sweetcorn and make a hole to plant the sweet corn. The length between one plants to another plants are 1ft and 1ft in each planting bed. We make a 2 row of sweet corn in one planting bed. After a few days the plants have been removed, we can see the plants start to growing fastly plus we give a enough water, get enough sunlight and fertilizer.

After we have done with land preparing and applying mulcing its time for us to germinate seed. Every group need to choose one crops. After discuss my group decided to plant a sweet corn. Before we choose the plants we need to know how long the plants take to harvest because we have a short time to plant the crops and need to sell before our final exam. For sweet corn it can be harvest on 68 until 72 days. So, it suitable with our time before final exam. This is the seed of sweet corn                                 Firstly, we need to germinate the seed in germinating tray. Another way to plants the crops is through direct seedling on the planting bed. Before that, we need to put the seed in the water for one day. It because we want to determined the good seed (sink) and the bad seed (float). The float seed because of the density which is less than water or it can be the seed may be having a waxy c...

After we done with liming process we do measurement and lining process. We do it because want to determined how the large size of land for each group behind want to make our plot to be more systematic.The total size of our plot is 106ft x 58ft . As you know we have 5 groups consist of 4 person. So, we will divided 16 planting bed which is 25ft x 4ft  per group and each person for every group need to handle 2 planting bed. Each planting bed is 12ft x 4ft. Then in the middle of our plot we made 'Jalan Agro' that will use as a walkaway to go every planting bed. This the rough sketch for our plot made by our supervisor After we determined the size it easier for us to making planting bed. After the measurement we use rafia ropes to make a lining for each planting bed and also 'Jalan Agro'. It easier for us to spray the soil. Then we going to apply chicken dung to our planting bed. Why we need to apply chicken dung? Because chicken dung can help to imp...

After land clearing process we proceed our activity with land management. Land management is the process of managing the use and development of land resources. Determining the pH of soil Actually we need to know the exact pH soil of our crop before we apply the lime.So, we need to determine the pH soil in the laboratory. It's important to determine the pH soil because it will influnce the availability of essential nutrients. Each group need to take a two soil sample in different place which is the soil sample is topsoil. Topsoil is the upper and the outermost layer of soil using auger. After that, my teammates dry the soil sample under the sunlight about a week. My teammates used auger to take a topsoil Then we put it in the plastic bag After we took soil sample we will move to lab. In lab we need to determined the pH of the soil to know the soil are acid, basic or neutral. Every plot needed different pH value because of based on the crops. The pH for sweet...

           Assalammualaikum and have a nice day to anyone who read this blog. Actually i forgot to intro my blog because i am to busy with my schedule. First of all, i create this blog for one of my subject in semester 1 which is field work (FPA400) . As you know i took  degree in technology and plantation management course.            Actually for this subject we needed to plant crop from the earlier process of plantation to harvesting until selling the crops. Before i mentioned what crops i plant i want to share my experience about roll call. What is meaning roll call for plantation students? its means all of the plantation students need to get together in one place before start activity. The roll call will start with read Yassin or Asmahul Husna and sing Negaraku song, Wawasan warga UiTM and most importly is planter's song. It continued with a speech from every part of students what they have done every week and fina...