CLASSIFICATION OF CROPS
Crops can be classified based on: Uses. Life Cycle. Morphology. CLASSIFICATION OF CROPS BASED…
Month: December 2021
SOURCES OF FARM POWER
DEFINITION OF POWER Power is defined as the rate of doing work or the rate…
EFFECTS OF SOME FARMING PRACTICES ON THE SOIL
FARMING PRACTICES The following farming practices by farmers have various consequences or effects on the…
FUNCTIONS AND PROBLEMS OF FARM MANAGER
In agriculture, the farm manager is usually regarded as the entrepreneur whose duties include the…
ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY
Environmental physiology refers to the effects of the environment on the growth and performance of…
TYPES AND CLASSIFICATION OF FARM ANIMALS
Farm animals refers to as a group of animals which are reared in the farm…
APICULTURE OR BEE-KEEPING
Bee keeping (or apiculture, from latin apis, bee) is the maintenance of honey bee colonies,…
AGRO-FORESTRY PRACTICES IN NIGERIA
Agro-forestry is a collective name for land use system where woody perennial (trees, shrubs and…
FLORICULTURE
Floriculture is simply defined as the production and management of ornamental plants such as trees,…
DRAINAGE
Drainage is a process whereby excess water in the soil is removed artificially to promote…
IRRIGATION
Irrigation is defined as the artificial or manmade application of water to soil or land…
EDAPHIC FACTORS AFFECTING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
1) Soil pH It affects the growth of plants. It also affects the availability of…
INTER-RELATIONSHIP AMONG LIVING THINGS
There are inter-relationship among living things in a particular environment. These inter-relationship include the following:…
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECTING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
MEANING AND ELEMENTS/FACTORS OF CLIMATE Climate is defined as the average weather condition of a…
DECLENSION
Declension (otherwise known as the inflection of nouns and pronouns) is the change in form…
AGRO-ALLIED OR AGRO-BASED INDUSTRIES
Agro-allied industries also called Agrobased industries are industries which depend on agriculture for their raw…
ADJECTIVES
Adjectives are words that modify nouns or noun-equivalents and fellow adjectives. The italicised words below…
AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY
Agricultural ecology can simply be defined as the study of crop plants and farm animals…
GOVERNMENT LAWS ON LAND USE IN NIGERIA
As a result of the problems and inadequacies of the land tenure system, the Federal…
VOICE
Voice refers to the form which a transitive verb assumes to show whether it acts…
PERSON, MOOD AND NUMBER AS GRAMMATICAL PROPERTIES OF VERBS
PERSON Person is the form of the verb which designates the person speaking (i.e. first…
THE FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
The Future Perfect Tense Form This tense is formed with shall/will + perfect infinitive (without…
THE PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE
The Present Perfect Continuous Tense Form The present perfect continuous tense is formed by adding…
THE FUTURE TENSE AND FUTURE CONTINUOUS TENSE
The Future Tense Form The future tense is formed with shall/will + the bare infinitive:…
THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE AND PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
The Simple Past Tense Form The past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding…
THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE
Form The Present continuous tense is made up of the present tense of the auxiliary…
SEQUENCE OF TENSES
Sequence of Tenses informs us that the tense of a verb in the subordinate clause…
GRAMMATICAL PROPERTIES OF VERBS
Verbs have five grammatical properties: Tense. Person. Mood. Number. Voice. These properties (otherwise known…
ADVERBS
Adverbs are words that describe or modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, sentences, and sentence items,…
CONJUNCTIONAL IDIOMS
A conjunctional idiom is an idiom that performs the function of a conjunction. Usually, it…
PREPOSITIONAL IDIOMS
Broadly speaking, prepositional idioms refer to the idiomatic use of prepositions after verbs, adjectives, verbal-nouns,…
ADVERB IDIOMS
These function as adverbs and, as such, many of them can be replaced by simple…