Crops can be classified based on: Uses. Life Cycle. Morphology. CLASSIFICATION OF CROPS BASED ON THEIR...
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DEFINITION OF POWER Power is defined as the rate of doing work or the rate of expenditure...
FARMING PRACTICES The following farming practices by farmers have various consequences or effects on the soil. a)...
In agriculture, the farm manager is usually regarded as the entrepreneur whose duties include the organisation, administration,...
Environmental physiology refers to the effects of the environment on the growth and performance of farm animals....
Farm animals refers to as a group of animals which are reared in the farm either for...
Bee keeping (or apiculture, from latin apis, bee) is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in...
Agro-forestry is a collective name for land use system where woody perennial (trees, shrubs and palms) are...
Floriculture is simply defined as the production and management of ornamental plants such as trees, shrubs and...
Drainage is a process whereby excess water in the soil is removed artificially to promote good farming...
Irrigation is defined as the artificial or manmade application of water to soil or land for farming...
1) Soil pH It affects the growth of plants. It also affects the availability of soil nutrients...
There are inter-relationship among living things in a particular environment. These inter-relationship include the following: 1)...
MEANING AND ELEMENTS/FACTORS OF CLIMATE Climate is defined as the average weather condition of a place, measured...
Declension (otherwise known as the inflection of nouns and pronouns) is the change in form of nouns...
Agro-allied industries also called Agrobased industries are industries which depend on agriculture for their raw materials in...
Adjectives are words that modify nouns or noun-equivalents and fellow adjectives. The italicised words below are some...
Agricultural ecology can simply be defined as the study of crop plants and farm animals in relation...
As a result of the problems and inadequacies of the land tenure system, the Federal Government of...
Voice refers to the form which a transitive verb assumes to show whether it acts or is...
PERSON Person is the form of the verb which designates the person speaking (i.e. first person; e.g....
The Future Perfect Tense Form This tense is formed with shall/will + perfect infinitive (without to): shall...
The Present Perfect Continuous Tense Form The present perfect continuous tense is formed by adding the present...
The Future Tense Form The future tense is formed with shall/will + the bare infinitive: shall +...
The Simple Past Tense Form The past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding ed to...
Form The Present continuous tense is made up of the present tense of the auxiliary verb to...
Sequence of Tenses informs us that the tense of a verb in the subordinate clause agrees in...
Verbs have five grammatical properties: Tense. Person. Mood. Number. Voice. These properties (otherwise known as features...
Adverbs are words that describe or modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, sentences, and sentence items, such as...
A conjunctional idiom is an idiom that performs the function of a conjunction. Usually, it appears as...
Broadly speaking, prepositional idioms refer to the idiomatic use of prepositions after verbs, adjectives, verbal-nouns, etc, and...
These function as adverbs and, as such, many of them can be replaced by simple adverbs. Some...
Verb idioms are variously referred to as group verbs, multi-word verbs or phrasal verbs, or action/being referent...
A noun idiom is a unique noun phrase with a unique meaning. It can be replaced by...
The word “noun” is derived from the Latin word. “nomen”, which means name. Nouns are traditionally defined...
Parts of speech are classes of words that perform different functions in the sentence. They are like...
Syntax, a very important branch of grammar, means the ordering or arrangement of words (from Greek syn...
An idiom is a group or sequence of words whose meaning cannot be deciphered logically through our...
When we talk of verbs and verbals in English, we loosely refer to finite and nonfinite verbs...
(Verb-noun, verb-adjective, and verb-adverb) Form The infinitive, derived from the Latin word infinitus, means infinity, unlimited,...
Seven cardinal principles (or changes) governing the conversion of direct speech to the indirect speech are: Verb...
THE SUBJECT AND THE PREDICATE Notably, every sentence may be divided grammatically into two broad parts: Subject...
THE GERUND (a verb-noun: verb in appearance but noun in action) Form The gerund ends in...
A Phrase is a group of words that contains neither a subject nor a predicate. It is...
Direct Speech refers to the actual words that come out of the mouth of the speaker without...
Land tenure is defined as the system of land ownership or acquisition by individual, family, community or...
Commercial activities involves the buying, selling and distribution of goods and services in Nigeria. It involves trading,...
Figures of speech refer to the connotative use of language. When a writer departs from (or moves...
The entire surface of the body is covered by skin. In man, the skin is about 1...
Meaning and characteristics of NonGovernmental Organisations in Agriculture. They are established by private agencies or corporate bodies...
