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FORM 3 AGRICULTURE NOTES GENERAL AGRICULTURE Land use Physical farm planning - This is the drafting of farm management - It involves allocating resources to enterprises and sketching maps of farm layout - Physical farm planning results in land being used for various activities according to its suitability, resources and farmer's objectives - It enables the most profitable and sustainable land use Procedures in physical farm planning - Determining or stating goals for the farm business or operation - Identifying the resources available on the farm - Assessment of labour needs - Identifying the feasible crops and livestock enterprises that can be produced on the farm - Monitoring the results - Evaluating the physical farm planning process Objectives of physical farm planning - To minimise soil loses on cultivated land - To maintain grazing areas in the correct ecological balance whilst ensuring maximum returns to the land user - To reduce degradation of the land Importance of physical farm planning - Helps the farmer to make decisions and considerations on size of the enterprises, selection of crops, types and number of livestock to be raised and viability/economics of production - Enables farmers to achieve their goals in an organised and efficient way - Helps the farmer to carefully examine existing resources and make decisions on their best allocation - Assists in identifying input and credit needs for the farm land uses and development - Helps in estimating future costs and returns - Enables establishment of mechanical conservation structures for the purpose of minimising soil erosion, improving soil moisture and conservation of vegetation - Ensures correct siting of farm roads and other farm structures such as buildings - Enables the farmer to effectively manage water resources and decide irrigation water suitability of water sources and irrigation infrastructure requirements RODRECK WISEMAN NYAKABAWU 1