The course deals with the history and the current food production in the Philippines, its meaning and scope of crop production, classification and nomenclature of crops based on binomial classification, different physiological processes in plant, different factors that affect the growth of crops and the growth and development of crops and its movements and adaptation to the environment. The student is expected to identify and categorize crops according to the types, uses, importance, origin and geographical distribution, discuss the basic processes and factors affecting crop production, discuss the basic and sustainable crop production; and discus the socio-economic, cultural and political issues in crop production in relation to agricultural sustainability.