SUBJECT:AGRICULTURAL
SCIENCE
WEEK: TWO
CLASS:
GRADE
7
TOPIC:
MEANING, IMPORTANCE AND TYPES OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED)
SUBTOPIC: IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE TO THE FARMER AND SOCIETY:
i. Agriculture
supplies food to man and feed for his animals.
ii. Agriculture provides feedstuffs
for animals.
iii. Agriculture provides people with
employment and income.
iv. Agriculture helps man to
appreciate God on what God created.
v. Agriculture provides resources for
drugs to man. Plant like Neem, Quinine, Pyrethrium etc, have been grown by man
and utilized to cure varying illnesses, some of which are also used as
preventive drugs.
vi. Agriculture helps to beautify our
environment through the cultivation of flowering plants and fruit trees grown
around which equally helps to protect the environment.
vii. Agriculture provides sources of
fuel for domestic and industrial purposes.
viii. Agriculture helps to maintain
biodiversity in many Farm Game Reserves, and Agricultural Stations which
preserve plant species and animal breeds.
ix. Agriculture provide the
shelter in which we live and the clothes that we wear.
x. Cooking
oil is obtained from the oil palm tree, shea butter tree, melon and groundnuts.
IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE TO THE NATION:
i.
Employer of Labor: About seventy out of every hundred Nigerians are farmers.
ii. A
source of income and foreign exchange earnings.
iii.
Provision of raw materials to support industries.
iv.
Source of Food.
The Federal and State
Governments have also assisted farmers in very many ways:
These
include:
(i)
Helping farmers to clear new land for farming with bulldozers.
(ii)
Supply of fertilizers to farmers at low prices.
(iii)
Supply of farm implements.
(iv)
Building of Farm Input Centres or Agricultural Input Service Units (AISU).
(v) Construction
of farm roads.
(vi)
Giving of loans to the ordinary farmers for expanding their farm operations.
(vii)
The Land Use Decree of 1978 provided a good opportunity for farmers to acquire
sufficient land for their farms.
ASSIGNMENT
1.
Explain the importance of agriculture to the farmer.
2. Discuss the importance of
agriculture to the nation.
3.
Explain the importance of agriculture to the society.
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