Crop production – sowing, care and harvest yield

Design & TechnologyAgriculture, Forestry & AquacultureAges 12–13

A crop bed is tracked from sowing day to harvest day: the plant germinates, grows, flowers and sets seed or fruit over the exact number of days for each crop. Students set the irrigation and fertilizer levels, choose which pest or disease appears, and while the simulation runs can click Water, Top-dress, Weed and hill up, and Control pests and disease at the right moments. The simulation shows soil moisture, nutrition, pest and disease damage, plant height by day, and the harvest yield in tonnes per hectare.