AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

SCHEME OF WORK
SSI FIRST TERM

1. Meaning and importance of agriculture

2. Problems and solutions of Agricultural development in Nigeria
3. Types of agriculture-subsistence and commercial agriculture
4. Simple farm tools, uses and maintenance
5. Farm machinery and implement
6. Tractors- coupled implements e.g. ploughs, harrows, ridgers, planters, harvesters, and
sprayer’s e.t.c
7. Maintenance practices and precautionary measures
8. Problems of Agricultural mechanization
9. Prospects of Agricultural mechanization
10. Source of farm power
11. Revision
12. Examination
2nd Term
1. Land and its uses
2. Factors affecting land available for agricultural purposes
3. Classification of corps
4. Husbandry of cereal (mazia& rice)
5. Husbandry of pulses (legumes) groundnut and cowpea
6. Husbandry of root and tubers
7. Husbandry of vegetables
8. Husbandry of fruits
9. Husbandry of latex crop
10. Husbandry of oil crop
11. Revision
12. Examination
3rd term
Week 1 - Husbandry of fiber corp
Week 2 - Husbandry of spices-pepper, Ginger and onion
Week 3 - Husbandry of beverages – cocoa, tea, coffee
Week 4 - Pasture and forage crops I - Meaning, types, uses
Week 5 - Pasture and forage crop II - common grasses and legumes used for grazing livestock,
Botanical and characteristics, factors affecting distributing and productivity Establishment and
Management
Week 6 - Range management
Week 7 - Irrigation
Week 8 - Drainage
Week 9 - Agricultural Ecology
Week 10 - Revision
Week 11 - Examination
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SCHEME OF WORK
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE SS II FIRST TERM
Week 1 - Agricultural Laws and reform
Week 2 - Roles of Government in Agricultural Production
Week 3 - Roles of Non-Governmental organization in Agricultural development and Roles
Of Science and Technology in Agriculture
Week 4 - Forest management
Week 5 - Environmental factors affecting Agricultural production
Week 6 - Rock formation
Week 7 - Soil formation and profile development I
Week 8 - Soil formation and profile development II
Week 9 - Soil types, composition and properties of soil
Week 10 - Agricultural Pollution
Week 11 - Revision
Week 12 - Examination

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE SS II SECOND TERM

Week 1 - Plant Nutrient
Week 2 - Nutrient cycle
Week 3 - Diseases of major crops – I
Week 4 - Diseases of major crops – II
Week 5 - Pests of major crops
Week 6 - Weeds and weed control
Week 7 - Farm surveying
Week 8 - Farm planning and Farm layout
Week 9 - Floriculture – Meaning, Importance Setting and Location for planting ornamental
plant,
Method of cultivation
Week 10 - Common types of ornamental plants and maintenance of ornamental plants
Week 11 - Revision
Week 12 - Examination
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE SS II THIRD TERM
Week 1 - Effect of some farming practices on the soil
Week 2 - Anatomy and Physiology of farm animal – Digestive and Circultory system
Week 3 - Anatomy and Physiology of farm animal Respiratory, Nervous and Reproductive
system
Week 4 - Animal Reproduction I
Week 5 - Animal Reproduction II
Week 6 - Environmental physiology
Week 7 - Livestock Management I – Poultry and Pig
Week 8 - Livestock Management II – Rabbit, Cattle and Goat
Week 9 - Animal Nutrition I
Week 10 - Animal Nutrition II
Week 11 - Revision
Week 12 - Examination
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SCHEME OF WORK

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE SS III FIRST TERM

Week 1 - Crop Improvement – Meaning aims and methods of crop improvement
Week 2 - Mendelian laws of Inheritance and definition of some genetic terms
Week 3 - Animal Improvement – Meaning, Aims, Method of animal improvement and
artificial insemination
Week 4 - Principles of animal health management – Meaning, cause of livestock disease,
factors that could predispose animals to diseases
Week 5 - Animal health management – some selected and disease and methods of
prevention and control
Week 6 - Parasites (endoparasiten and control ectoparasites) meaning, Mode of
transmission, life cycle, prevention and control
Week 7 - Aquaculture I – Meaning, Importance of fish farming, Terms use in fish farming,
conditions necessary for sitting fish pond
Week 8 - Aquaculture II – Establishment and Maintenance of fish pond, processing or
preservation of fish, fishing method and tools, fishery regulations
Week 9 - Agricultural Finance I
Week 10 - Agricultural Finance II
Week 11 - Revision
Week 12 - Examination

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE SS III SECOND TERM

Week 1 - Agricultural Economics – factors of production, functions and problem of farm
manager
Week 2 - Basic economic principles of demand and supply
Week 3 - Farm Accounts
Week 4 - Farm Records
Week 5 - Marketing of Agricultural Produce I
Week 6 - Marketing of Agricultural Produce II
Week 7 - Agricultural Extension – I
Week 8 - Agricultural Extension – II
Week 9 - Agricultural Insurance
Week 10 - Range and land management
Week 11 - Bee keeping
Week 12 - Revision and examination