FPA200 (WEEK 12) - CIRCLE WEEDING

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WEEK 12 (21 June 2024)

 

Assalamualaikum and hello everyone!!! Welcome to my blog😊. Salam UITM dihatiku! 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 Campus Jasin. By the way, this is a blog about FPA200 Fieldwork III that all DPIM's student will learn during semester 3. Hope that everyone will get useful information from my blog and hope you enjoy it !!!

Every Friday in semester 3, 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 :


7:20 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
  • Gathered in the Agrotech Plantation site.
  • Our class representative take attendance for class B.
  • Line up according to their respective classes from class A until class D.
  • Sing the National Anthem, next is Wawasan Setia Warga UiTM and Planters Song followed by prayer.
  • Read Al-Kahfi (The first 10 sentences and last 10 sentences).    
Figure 1 : Gathered at Agrotech
              
8:15 a.m. - 8:28 a.m.
  • Prepare equipment and tools that we want to use for our activities.  
8:28 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
  • All student from class B moved to the Durian plot.
  • My activities is doing maintenance in the durian plot area which is circle weeding. Before this I thought my durian trees on line 7 and 8 is died because the weed so high until I can't see it, after staff from the plantation unit was trim the grass using a machine, now I saw the trees is still alive and need to do a maintenance.
  • Students start doing maintenance followed by row.
  • Class dismissed.
EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS

EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS

DESCRIPTION

1. 

     

Boots

2. 

Hoe

3.

    

Gloves

4. 

      

Straw Hat

MAINTENANCE ON DURIAN TREE

                                                    TREE 7                                                      
 
Figure 2: Before do the circle weeding

Figure 3: After doing a circle weeding 

                                                                    TREE 8
Figure 4: Before do the circle weeding

Figure 5: After doing a circle weeding

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT OPTIMAL CARES

Advanced Soil Management
1.Organic Matter: Incorporate organic matter such as compost or well-rotted manure into the soil. This improves soil structure, water retention, and nutrient availability.
2. Cover Crops: Plant cover crops like legumes to fix nitrogen in the soil and improve soil health. They also help prevent soil erosion.

PLANNING FOR NEXT ACTIVITIES 

1. Pruning
- Equipment : Hand pruning shears (2 Unit), pruning saw (1 unit)

THATS ALL FOR WEEK 12. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SPEND YOUR TIME  !
😊👋

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