Syllabus content and objectives
Official JAMB Agricultural Science outline · Section D: Agricultural Economics and Extension
Content
a. Demand and supply
Objective
Relate demand to supply in agricultural production and interpret graphical representations of demand and supply.
Content
b. Production function: input/input, output/output and input/output relationships; stages of production, diminishing returns, scale of preference and choice
Objective
Relate input to output and deduce economic concepts from graphical representations.
Content
c. Characteristics of agricultural production: small farm holdings, biological limits, climate susceptibility, seasonality and price elasticity of demand and supply
Objective
Distinguish common features of agricultural production and produce; compute elasticity of demand and supply.
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