SS3 Agricultural Science Scheme of Work for First Term

WEEK(S)

TOPIC(S)

CONTENT

  • (a) Meaning of Agricultural Finance
  • (b) Importance of Agricultural Finance
  • (c) Sources of Farm Financing
    (i) Personal savings
    (ii) Commercial Banks
    (iii) Cooperative Societies
    (iv) Government (Local, State and Federal)
    (v) Non-governmental Organizations, etc.
  • (d) Classes of Credit
    (i) Classification based on Length of Period (i.e. time period) Short-term credit, medium term credit, Long term credit, etc.
    (ii) Classification based on Sources of Credit –
    (iia) Institutional credit e.g. banks, cooperatives, government, NGOs.
    (iib) Non-institutional credit. e.g. personal savings, friends and relatives and money merchants
  • (e) Classification based on Liquidity
    (i) Loan in cash
    (ii) Loan in kind
  • (f)  Problems Faced By Farmers in Procuring Agrcultural Credits
  • (g) Problems Faced by Institutions in Granting Loans to Farmers – Lack of records accounts on the part of the farmers, etc.
  • (a) Meaning of Capital Market
  • (b) Institutions that Deal with Medium- and Long-term Loans for Agricultural Business
  • (c) Institutions Involved in the Capital Market
    (i) Commercial Banks
    (ii) Mortgage Banks
    (iii) Nigeria Agriculture, Cooperative and Rural Development Bank (NACRDB), etc.
    (iv) Sources of Funds for the Capital Market – Bonds, Insurance Companies and Merchant Banks, The stock Exchange (Sales & purchases of shares)
  • (d) Roles of Capital Markets
    (i) Mobilization of long-term funds for lending
    (ii) Reducing ove-reliance on money market, etc.
  • (a) Definition of Agricultural Insurance
  • (b) Importance of Agricultural Insurance
  • (c) Types of Insurance for Various Agricultural Risks
  • (d) Insurance Terms
  • (e) Problems of Agricultural Insurance
  • (a) Importance of Farm Records
    (i) Performance evaluation of farms
    (ii) Farm management decisions, etc.
  • (b) Types of Farm Records
    (i) Inventory Records
    (ii) Production Records
    (iii) Income and Expenditure Records
    (iv) Supplementary or Special Records
  • (a) Aims of Crop Improvement
    (i) To increase yield
    (ii) Improve quality of produce, etc.
  • (b) Methods of Crop Improvement
    (i) Proper timing of planting
    (ii) Adoption of better cultivation methods, etc.
  • (c) Mendel’s Law of Inheritance
    (i) Definition of Some Genetic Terms – Characters or traits, chromosomes, genes, etc.
    (ii) Mendel’s 1st Law of  Segregation of Genes
    (iii) Mendel’s 2nd Law of Independent Assortment of Genes (Give examples)
  • (d) Advantages and Disadvantages of Crop Improvement
  • (a) Meaning of Animal Improvement
  • (b) Aims of Animal Improvement
  • (c) Method of Animal Improvement
    (i) Introduction to Animal Improvement
    (ii) Selection –  Types of Selection
    (iii) Breeding – Types of Breeding
  • (d) Artificial Insemination
    (i) Meaning of Artificial Insemination
    (ii) Methods of collecting semen
    (iii) Advantages and Disadvantages of Artificial Insemination
  • (a) Meaning of Disease
  • (b) Causal Organisms
    (i) Viruses
    (ii) Bacteria
    (iii) Fungi
    (iv) Protozoa
  • (c) Factors that Could Predispose Animals to Diseases
    (i) Health status of animals
    (ii) Nutrition and management, etc.
  • (d) Reactions of Animals to Diseases – Susceptibility and resistance to diseases
  • (e) Symptoms, Effects and Mode of Transmission of Selected Diseases e.g.
    (i) Viral Diseases – foot and mouth, rinder-pest, Newcastle, etc.
    (ii) Bacterial Diseases – anthrax, brucellosis, tuberculosis, etc.
    (iii) Protozoa – trypanosomiasis, coccidiosis, etc.
    (iv) Fungal – Scabies, ringworm.
  • (f) Parasites (i) Meaning of Parasites (ii) Types of Parasites (iii) Modes of Transmission and Life Cycles of Some Selected Livestock Parasites
  • (g) General Methods of Prevention and Control of Diseases and Parasites – Quarantine, inoculation, etc.
  • (h) Control of Parasites – Dipping, drenching, spraying and deworming
  • Revision of work done in First Term

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