LSCS2: AGRICULTURE SENIOR TWO

Agriculture is a vocational subject and this book has been specially developed to be practical. Throughout this course, emphasis has been placed not merely on what you, the learner, know (knowledge) but rather what you can do (skill or applicability) with the acquired knowledge to solve real-life problems in your community.

Did you know that you can earn money through crop or livestock production projects? Can you think of some of the opportunities in agriculture that can earn you income? Learning Agriculture provides a set of skills for occupation, thus making the subject vocational.

As a vocational subject, Agriculture prepares you to work and earn a living. It is practical and its outputs are inevitably demanded by the population. Therefore, enhancing your knowledge, skills and experiences in agriculture will help you achieve your economic goals.

Through this enhancement, you will harness the available resources objectively to produce optimal food; through research, innovation, creativity and problem-solving, you will be able to produce adequately for the increasing population. You will, therefore, be able to make agriculture a main or an additional source of income.

This course has been designed to help you enjoy the experience of studying Agriculture.

A number of sections have been created specially to enhance your experience as you study Agriculture. The sections include the following:

Key sources of agricultural information: Lists of the mobile applications and Agricultural Research Institutes pertinent to agricultural production and marketing.

Theme: A consolidation of chapters that contribute to a similar broader grouping (branches) of Agriculture such as crop and animal production.

Chapter. This is a theme in its scaled-down form. Each academic term's work is presented in chapters.

Keywords: This section contains a list of technical terms that will be used in the respective chapter.

Learning outcomes: This is a section at the beginning of every chapter activities are set. The section gives an outline of what you are expected to learn.

Chapter introduction: This begins with information or reflective questions on the content of the chapter. It ends with a statement of an adapted competency that you are required to demonstrate at the end of studying a particular chapter.

Activity: Being a competency-based curriculum, new information, skills and experiences will be attained through practicing the activities. This section therefore is the mainstream through which the learning outcomes are attained by the learner.

Activity of integration: This is at the end of every chapter to help you assess your ability to apply the knowledge, skills and experiences attained to solve problems in real life situations.

Summary: This section is at the end of each chapter to help you reflect on the level of knowledge acquisition, understanding of concepts and application of the knowledge from the learning outcomes into real life situations.

Revision questions: The section is at the end of every chapter to enable the learner have a general understanding of the concepts through research or discussion.

References: This is a list of published materials to enhance further reading and research. A number of these materials can be accessed online.

Glossary: This is a list of words considered technical and pertinent to the chapter highlighting the meaning of the words.

Enjoy every section of this course!