FPA150 (WEEK 2) - SITE SELECTION AND PREPARATION

WEEK 2 (13 October 2023) 

Assalamualaikum and hello everyone!!! Welcome again to my blog💜. Salam UITM dihatiku! Firstly, let me introduce myself. My name is Nur 'Ain Syafiqah Binti Mohamad Hirani. I am from Selangor. I studied in Diploma In Planting Industry Management (DPIM) at UITM Melaka Kampus Jasin. By the way, this is a blog about FPA150 Fieldwork II that all DPIM's student will learn during semester 2. Hope that everyone will get some information from my blog and hope you enjoy it !!!

Every Friday in semester 2, all students part 1 until part 3 from Faculty Of Plantation And Agrotechnology need to get together in the field. In this blog, I want to show our time and activity that we have followed :

6:20 a.m. - 8.00 a.m.

• Line up according to their respective classes
• Warm up
• Moved to Agrotech 
• Sing the National Anthem, next is Wawasan Setia Warga UITM and Planters Song followed by prayer.  

Figure 1

8:00 a.m. - 8.20 a.m.

• Nursery selection briefing delivered by Dr. Selva Kumar to all student from part 2.
• Dr. Selva Kumar also briefing about the purpose of nursery selection and suitable technique for breeding seedlings.
• My class and class A moved to our plant plot which is cocoa plot with our lecturer for FPA150, Dr. Maizatul.

Figure 2

8:20 a.m. - 10.15 a.m.

• We arrived at our cocoa plot.
• We start to do land clearing around the cocoa plot.

                          
                                            Figure 3                             

10:15 a.m. - 10.40 a.m.

• Got a rest.

10:40 a.m. - 11.15 a.m.

• Continue our land clearing until clean.
• Class dismissed.

Figure 4

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

1. What is scientific name for cocoa trees ?

- Theobroma cacao

2. What is cocoa trees ?

- Cocoa trees is a tropical evergreen tree grown for it's edible seeds

3. The uses of cocoa trees 

- Cocoa powder

- Cocoa butter

- Chocolate 

THATS ALL FOR WEEK 2. THANK YOU EVERYONE !