Backyard Gardening

Importance:• A productive activity for the members

of the family.• Growing foods and vegetables can be

a source of food that ca help meet the nutritional needs of the entire family and the people of the community.

• This activity supplements the family income.

• Excess produce can be sold to friends, relatives or in the market.

Gardening

• is the process of cultivating the land for growing flowers, ornamental plants, vegetables, fruits and trees.

Harvesting

• Is the gathering of the crops upon maturity.

Seed box

• Is the container or the plot where you sow seeds before transplanting them to a garden plot.

2 Common Methods

1. Direct seeding

- The seeds are planted in an area where they are grown until they are ready for harvesting.

2. Indirect Seeding

- the seeds are planted first in seed beds or seed boxes to produce seedlings which are the transplanted in the field as soon as they have leaves.

Methods of Plant Propagation

1. Sexual Propagation

- is the most common method of reproduction and multiplication of plats.

- this is done mostly by the user of seeds and spores.

2. Asexual Propagation

- is the development of a new plants, natural or artificial without the use of seeds.

Poultry Raising

Poultry

- refers to domestic foods such as chickens, ducks, turkeys, quails, pigeons and geese raised for meat and eggs.

Importance:

• Poultry meat supplies the protein needed by human body.

• Is a profitable source of income

Duck Raising

- it provides us with meat and eggs.

- duck eggs can be made into balut, penoy and salted egg.

Ducks may be classified as egg type and meat type:

Egg type:1. Native ducks or Pateros ducks - commonly called itik. - used for balut, penoy, itlog na

maalat. good layer and the eggs are

large.

2. Khaki Campbell Duck - it lays as many as 300 eggs a

year - it’s a good layer.3. Commercial Hybrid Duck - world’s first hybrid duck bred

in England. - it lays its eggs at about 5

months of age.

Meat type:1. Muscovy Duck - it is known as pato - it stays on land and requires less

care. It feeds on palay and corn.2. Peking Duck - it’s a breed from China. - it produces the first quality table

meat used in Chinese dish. - it is good layer, docile and null adapted to the Phil. climate

PoultrySource of:

1. Egg - embryonated egg (balot) - salted egg - century egg2. Meat - tocino - sausage (longanisa- ratine

sausage) - nuggets

3. Feathers - cleaners - costume and body

ornaments - fans - comforters, cushions

Classification of Chicken: According to Origin1. Asiatic class (from Japan,

Philippines, Malaysia) ex. Mikawa, Nagoya

2. American class (Texas) ex. Texas, White Leghorn, Rhode Island, Phymouth.

3. European class/ English (from British) ex. Wyandote, Phymouth

4. Mediterranean class (from Lebanon, Jordan, Greece)

5. Continental class chicken.

According to use

1. Meat class- lives maximum of 45 days

2. Egg class3. Dual class4. Fancy class

PiggeryPrimary Products - Meat - Fats - Hair - Pig manure –

skinSecondary Products1. Meat - longanisa, sausage,

tocino, ham2. Fats –Anchor butter, and can be

made into candle.

Breeds of Pig1. Duroc2. Berleshire3. Poland China – most lard type4. Hansphire5. Large white6. Landrace – most bacon type7. Native

Aquaculture:

Fishery – the business of catching, taking, handling, harvesting, marketing and preserving and other fish or aquatic products.

Propagation RaisingFishery arts conservation – future

use

Importance:

• Source of feeds for poultry.• Good source of income due to

great demand for fresh, canned and smoked fish.

Fresh water Fishes

1. St. Peter fish (Tilapia) – raised in fish pond.

2. Cat fish (Hito) – lives in swaps, canal and ponds.

3. Mud fish (Dalag) – lives in muddy canals.

4. Carp ( Karpa)5. Gurami – fast grower, vegetarian

and breeds freely.6. Ornamental fish – like arouna, gold

fish

Marine Fishes1. Lapu- Lapu 2. Galunggong (scad fish3. Maya maya (Perch)4. Dalagang bukid5. Tuna6. Blue Marlin7. Pink Salmon8. Sardines9. Mackarel10. Salinas

Estuarine Fishes “ Tabsing” – tabang, places near the

river ex. Bangus, Salmon

Methods of Fish Cultivation

1. Fish pond Method – refers to the raising of fish in ponds.

2. Fish pen Method – requires net enclosure in shallow protected parts of inland waters such as lakes or lagoons.

3. Open Water Method – used in cultivating mussels, oysters and clams, done in bays, seas and lagoons.

Harvesting of Fish

1. Draining – done by draining completely the pond water and then the fish are collected using a scoop net.

2. Gill netting – used for selective harvesting where the stock is of multiple sizes.