Syllabus content and objectives
Official WAEC Agricultural Science outline · Practical Agricultural Science
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1. Farm tools and equipment
Objective
Candidates should be able to identify, describe, use and maintain garden tools e.g. hoe, cutlass, garden trowel, hand fork, shovel, spade, rake, sickle, secateurs, shears, long handle hoe, pruner, budding knife, emasculator
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2. Tractor and animal drawn implement
Objective
Candidates should be able to identify, describe, use and maintain tractor and animal-drawn implements e.g. ploughs, harrows, ridgers, planters, cultivators, and identify their major parts and functions
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3. Harvesting, processing and storage equipment
Objective
Candidates should be able to identify, describe and state uses of equipment e.g. dehuskers, shellers, winnowers, dryers, processors, graters, refrigerators, cutlasses, scythe, groundnut lifters
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4. Farm tractor
Objective
Candidates should be able to identify the major components of the farm tractor and describe its servicing and maintenance
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5. Uses and maintenance of horticultural tools and implements
Objective
Candidates should be able to identify, use and maintain shears, dibber, pruning knife, secateurs, budding knife, measuring tapes, hand fork, hand trowel, hoe and fork
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6. Livestock and fishing equipment
Objective
Candidates should be able to identify, describe, use and care for equipment e.g. waterers, feeders, milking machines, nets, hook and line, branding machine, egg candler
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7. Farm surveying equipment
Objective
Candidates should be able to identify, use and care for equipment e.g. measuring tape, pins or arrows, ranging poles, plum bob, offset staff, compass, gunter's chains, pegs, theodolite
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