-Facilitate penetration of chemical spray.
-Reduce overbearing/improve quality of produce.
-Facilitate circulation of air through the crop.
-Give the plant required shape e.g coffee.
-Easy farm operations.
-Allow adequate light penetration into centre of the crop.
-Enables economic use of chemical spray.
-Control spread of diseases and pests.
OR
• To remove old, unproductive or diseased, damaged parts of the plant.
• To train plants to take a desirable shape for example formative pruning in tea.
• To control crop leave ratio hence avoiding overbearing.
• To control diseases and pests for example antestia bugs in coffee.
• To facilitate other operations such as spraying, picking and seeding.
• To reduce wastage of chemicals applied on the crop.
monica20 answered the question on October 13, 2017 at 23:01
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