About this course
This course will provide an in-depth comprehension of crop scouting to help you improve crop management during farming. It will help farmers gain hands-on skills in identifying plants with disorders so that they can act quickly before the harvesting season. This course will aid a maize farmer in making informed crop management decisions and crucial investments in risk management techniques. You will learn why you should introduce crop scouting as a routine when growing crops. It will entail an introduction to crop scouting, identifying deficiencies of various nutrients in maize and common growth disorders in different parts of a maize stalk.
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You will understand that crop scouting requires hands-on skills and knowledge of different disorders to help you be a practical farmer. Croup Scouting pays off significantly. It gives the farmer enough time to mitigate any diseases or deficiency symptoms in plants hence not affecting yield during harvest.
Most deficiency occurs when the plants lack enough nutrients to meet their uptake requirements for good growth and development. Learn more.
Understanding the different signs that show the different nutrient deficiencies will enable you to know which nutrient to add when a maize crop looks a certain way.
Here you will understand how different parts of the plant react when they lack certain nutrients.
Here you will understand how to scout sucessfully.