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Agricultural Science

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80 topics sit in this course for NABTEB.

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Forest Management
Defines forest and forestry, states their importance, outlines forest regulations in Nigeria, discusses forest management practices, implications of deforestation, and agro-forestry practices in West Africa (e.g., Taungya system, alley cropping, ley farming).
Simple Farm Tools
Covers the meaning, types (cutlass, hoe, spade, shovel), and general maintenance of simple farm tools.
Basic Economic Principles
Lists and discusses fundamental economic principles: scarcity, choice, scale of preference, and the law of diminishing returns.
Types and Classification of Farm Animals
Lists different types of farm animals (cattle, sheep, goat, poultry, pig, rabbit, fish) and classifies them according to habitat (terrestrial, aquatic) and uses (food, protection, pet).
Meaning and Importance of Agricultural Ecology
Defines agricultural ecology and ecosystem, components of a farm ecosystem (biotic and abiotic), and interactions within terrestrial and aquatic agro-ecosystems.

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BASIC CONCEPTS
AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY

Meaning and Importance of Ornamental Plants

Explains the meaning and importance of ornamental plants, and helps identify local types.

Classification of Crops

Classifies crops based on their uses (cereals, pulses, roots, tubers, vegetables), life cycle (annual, biennial, perennial), and morphology (monocotyledonous, dicotyledonous).

Meaning and Importance of Agriculture

Explores the definition and branches of agricultural science, and its importance to individuals, communities, and the nation.

Diseases of Crops

Defines disease, lists general effects on crop production, and covers important diseases of major crops including causal organisms, economic importance, mode of transmission, symptoms, prevention, and control.

Common Types of Ornamental Plants

Mentions ornamental plants used for different purposes, categorizes them by use (bedding, hedging, lawn grasses), and identifies common and botanical names.

Problems of Agricultural Development and Solutions

Identifies and discusses challenges in agricultural development in Nigeria related to land tenure, basic amenities, finance, transportation, storage and processing, education and extension, tools, farm inputs, and marketing.

Land and Its Uses

Covers the meaning and characteristics of land (e.g., free gift of nature, immobile, limited supply), and its uses for agricultural (crop/livestock production, wildlife conservation) and non-agricultural (industry, housing, transport) purposes.

Factors of Production

Defines and discusses factors of production: land, capital, labour (characteristics and classification), and management or entrepreneurship.

Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals

Covers the parts, organs (heart, liver, lungs), and systems (digestive, circulatory, respiratory) of farm animals, including drawing and labeling these parts and mentioning their functions.

Farm Machinery and Implements

Identifies types of farm machinery and implements such as tractors, bulldozers, shellers, dryers, incubators, milking machines, combine harvesters, and sprayers.

Pests of Crops

Defines pests, classifies them into insect and non-insect pests, and further classifies insect pests by mouth part (biting/chewing, piercing/sucking, boring). Discusses important field and storage insect pests, their life cycles, economic importance, nature of damage, prevention, and control measures. Also covers non-insect pests like birds and rodents, side effects of control methods, and general economic importance of pests.

Husbandry of Selected Crops

Covers production aspects including botanical and common names, varieties, climatic and soil requirements, land preparation, propagation, planting details, nursery requirements, cultural practices (supplying, thinning, manuring, weeding), pest/disease control, harvesting, processing, and storage for representative crops from various groupings.

Maintenance Practices and Precautionary Measures

Explains reasons for maintaining farm machinery and specific maintenance practices like checking water and oil levels regularly, and lists parts and functions of ploughs, harrows, and ridgers.

Subsistence vs. Commercial Agriculture

Explains the meaning, characteristics, differences, advantages, disadvantages, and problems of subsistence and commercial agriculture.

Weeds

Defines weeds, lists various types with botanical names, outlines their effects on crops and economy, describes characteristic features, and details methods of controlling weeds (cultural, biological, chemical, physical, mechanical).

Settings and Location for Planting Ornamental Plants

Identifies locations and settings requiring ornamental plants, and determines appropriate plant types for each location, such as avenues or in front of buildings.

Animal Reproduction

Explains the meaning of reproduction, the role of sex hormones, the reproductive systems of male and female farm animals, the process of reproduction in mammals and poultry, and egg formation in poultry.

Principles of Demand

States the meaning and law of demand, lists factors affecting demand for agricultural goods and services, and explains movements along and shifts in the demand curve.

Factors Affecting Land Availability

Identifies physical (soil type, topography, degradation, pollution), economic (industrial pressure, mining, recreation), and socio-cultural (land tenure, religious use) factors affecting land availability for agriculture.

Agro-Allied Industries and Relationships

Lists agro-based industries and their raw materials (e.g., pulp wood, cocoa, palm oil), and explains the relationship between agriculture and industries.

Role of Non-Governmental Organizations

Covers the meaning and importance of NGOs and their roles in agricultural associations and development.

Agricultural Mechanization

Covers the meaning of agricultural mechanization, mechanized agricultural operations, and the advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of agricultural mechanization.

Methods of Cultivating Ornamental Plants

Mentions and assesses methods of propagating ornamental plants, including by seed and various vegetative propagation techniques.

Environmental Physiology

Explains the meaning of environmental physiology and states the effects of changes in climatic factors (temperature, relative humidity, light) on growth, reproduction, milk production, and egg production.

Principles of Supply

States the meaning and law of supply, explains movements along and shifts in the supply curve, and lists factors affecting the supply of agricultural produce.

Livestock Management

Defines livestock management, states its requirements (housing, feeding, hygiene, finishing), and explains the importance of these practices for ruminants and non-ruminants from birth to market weight.

Prospects of Agricultural Mechanization

Explores possible ways to improve agricultural mechanization, such as developing less expensive machines and establishing agricultural engineering schools for personnel training and simple machine fabrication.

Maintenance of Ornamental Plants

Lists and discusses reasons for carrying out maintenance operations for ornamental plants, such as watering, mulching, and pruning.

Environmental Factors in Crop and Animal Production

Explains climatic (rainfall, temperature, light, wind, humidity), biotic (predators, parasites, microorganisms, pests, pathogens, weeds, interrelationships), and edaphic (soil pH, texture, structure, type) factors affecting crop and animal distribution and production.

Agricultural Laws and Reforms

Lists land tenure systems in West Africa, explains government land use laws (Decree), and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of land decrees and reforms.

Implications of Demand and Supply for Agricultural Production

Discusses the meaning of price support, price stabilization and control, and subsidy programs and their effects on agricultural production.

Rock Formation

Defines rock, identifies types of rocks (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic), and describes the processes of rock formation.

Animal Nutrition

Explains the meaning of animal nutrition, classifies feeds, mentions sources and functions of food nutrients, states types of rations/diets and their uses (balanced, production, maintenance), and describes causes, symptoms, and corrections of malnutrition in farm animals.

Farm Power

Defines farm power, identifies its sources, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of different sources of farm power.

Farm Surveying and Planning

Covers the meaning, common equipment, uses, maintenance, and importance of farm surveying. Also includes farm planning, farmstead meaning, importance, factors to consider in design, and layout.

Rangeland and Pasture

Covers the meaning and importance of rangeland/pasture to livestock, its characteristics, common grasses and legumes, factors affecting herbage production (rainfall, grass/legume composition, grazing), and methods of improvement (controlled stocking, rotational grazing, fertilizers, legumes, reseeding, weed control, burning, pest/disease control).

Soil Formation and Profile Development

Defines soil, lists factors of soil formation (parent rock, organisms, climate, topography, time), describes processes of soil formation (physical and chemical weathering), and soil profile development.

Problems Faced by Farm Managers

States common problems encountered by farm managers in the production process, such as inadequate farm inputs and insufficient information about input sources.

Agricultural Finance

Defines and discusses the importance of agricultural finance, sources of farm finance, classes of farm credit (by length of time, source, liquidity), problems faced by farmers and institutions in procuring/granting credit, and the capital market (meaning, institutions, sources of funds, roles in agricultural business).

Types, Composition, and Properties of Soil

Recognizes different soil types, covers chemical and biological composition (macro/micro nutrients, water holding capacity, porosity, organisms, air), soil pH, and physical properties (texture, structure).

Animal Improvement

Explains the meaning and aims of animal improvement, describes various methods (introduction, selection, breeding), and discusses the effects of these methods. Also covers artificial insemination, including its meaning, methods of semen collection, advantages, and disadvantages.

Animal Health Management

Defines diseases, identifies causal organisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa), factors predisposing animals to diseases, animal reactions to diseases (susceptibility, resistance), and covers selected livestock diseases (viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoal) including causal organisms, symptoms, transmission, effects, prevention, and control. Also covers parasites (meaning, types, transmission, life cycle, economic importance, control) and general disease/parasite prevention methods (quarantine, immunization, hygiene, breeding for resistance).

Farm Records and Accounts

States the importance and types of farm records (inventory, production, income/expenditure, supplementary), covers designing farm records, and describes farm accounts (expenditure, income, profit and loss, balance sheet).

Plant Nutrients and Nutrient Cycles

Distinguishes macro and micro nutrients, lists macro nutrients, states their functions and deficiency symptoms. Also covers factors affecting nutrient availability, methods of replenishing nutrients, and the nitrogen, carbon, water, and phosphorus cycles.

Irrigation

Defines irrigation, describes types (overhead, surface, underground), and discusses its advantages, disadvantages, importance, and associated problems.

Aquaculture

Defines aquaculture and its types (fish, shrimp, crab farming), explains the meaning and importance of fish farming, outlines conditions for siting a fish pond, covers establishment and maintenance of fish ponds, fishery regulations, and fishing methods and tools.

Marketing of Agricultural Produce

States the meaning and importance of agricultural marketing, lists marketing agents and channels, their advantages and disadvantages, and functions. Covers marketing of export crops, guidelines for exporting in West Africa, cooperative bodies, the importance of exporting, and problems of marketing agricultural produce.

Agricultural Insurance

Defines agricultural insurance, states its importance, names types of insurance policies for agricultural production (specific enterprise, vehicle, fire, life assurance), explains insurance premiums, and discusses problems of agricultural insurance (uncertainties of weather, natural disasters).

Drainage

Defines drainage, states its importance, describes types of drainage systems (surface, subsurface/underground), and discusses advantages and disadvantages.

Apiculture (Bee Keeping)

Defines apiculture/bee keeping, lists types of bees (indigenous, exotic), states the importance of bee keeping, covers preparing equipment for bee keeping and producing quality honey, describes various methods (traditional, modern hives/tools), and discusses precautionary measures.

Agricultural Extension

States the meaning and importance of agricultural extension, lists agricultural extension programmes in Nigeria and West Africa, describes methods of disseminating information to farmers (individual, group contact), and lists problems faced by agricultural extension agents (e.g., illiteracy among farmers).

Agricultural Pollution

Defines agricultural pollution, outlines its causes/sources (excessive chemical use, oil spillage, livestock waste), its effects on land and fishponds, and ways to minimize pollution.

Pasture and Forage Crops

Explains the meaning and uses of pasture and forage crops, types of pasture, common grasses and legumes, factors affecting distribution, establishment, and management practices of pasture.

Crop Improvement

Enumerate the aims, methods/processes (introduction, selection, breeding), Mendels laws of inheritance, and advantages and disadvantages of crop improvement.

Soil Formation and Profile Development

Types, Composition, and Properties of Soil

Plant Nutrients and Nutrient Cycles

Agricultural Pollution

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING MECHANISM

Simple Farm Tools
Farm Machinery and Implements
Maintenance Practices and Precautionary Measures
Agricultural Mechanization
Prospects of Agricultural Mechanization
Farm Power
Farm Surveying and Planning

CROP PRODUCTION

Classification of Crops
Husbandry of Selected Crops
Cereals
Pulses (Grain Legumes)
Roots and Tubers
Vegetables
Fruits
Beverages
Spices
Oils
Fibres
Latex
Other Crops
Pasture and Forage Crops
Crop Improvement

Forest Management

ORNAMENTAL PLANTS

Meaning and Importance of Ornamental Plants
Common Types of Ornamental Plants
Settings and Location for Planting Ornamental Plants
Methods of Cultivating Ornamental Plants
Maintenance of Ornamental Plants

CROP PROTECTION

Diseases of Crops
Pests of Crops
Weeds

ANIMAL PRODUCTION

Types and Classification of Farm Animals
Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals
Animal Reproduction
Environmental Physiology
Livestock Management
Animal Nutrition
Rangeland and Pasture
Animal Improvement
Animal Health Management
Aquaculture
Apiculture (Bee Keeping)

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND EXTENSION

Basic Economic Principles
Factors of Production
Principles of Demand
Principles of Supply
Implications of Demand and Supply for Agricultural Production
Functions of a Farm Manager
Problems Faced by Farm Managers
Agricultural Finance
Farm Records and Accounts
Marketing of Agricultural Produce
Agricultural Insurance
Agricultural Extension