← 1.4 Field Management Practices
Single-stem and multiple-stem pruning of coffee and tea
Agriculture · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How Kenyan coffee is trained to two or three heads or to one capped trunk, how tea is shaped to a plucking table, and the shared rules of clean cuts after harvest.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
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Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Field management and pruning
- Top dressing and other field management practices
- Weeding a growing Kenyan crop
- Thinning, gap filling and mulching
- Pruning tomatoes on Kenyan farms
- Pruning capsicum and related vegetables
- Single-stem and multiple-stem pruning of coffee and tea
- Cutting back perennial crops
- Top dressing maize and vegetables in practice
- Staking, training and earthing up