Week 5

Subject: Vocational Aptitude

Topic: Mechanized farming

Reference: Effective vocational aptitude guide for primary schools book 6

Content

Mechanized farming simply means the use of farm machinery to do farm operation. Mechanized farming has greatly increased the workers productivity of farm because farming operation that was formerly done by man and with farm animals are now easily carried using farm machines and implement.

Farm operation such as ploughing, harvesting, tilling etc are carried our using farm machines. This helps to reduce manual labourers and save time. Mechanized farming is a capital intensive business and such money needed can be gotten as loan from banks. It also requires huge amount of farmland.

Importance of mechanized farming

Reduces amount of manual labour
Increases farm productivity
It reduces farm waste
It enables mass production of food

Farm machineries and implements

Machinery/Implement�� Function

Planter�� used for planting crops
Plougher�� used for ploughing the ground
Tiller�� used for tilling the ground
Harvester�� used for harvesting crops
Ridger�� used for making ridges
Irrigator�� used for irrigating the farmland
Tractor�� to drive farm implements

Presentation:

Step I: Teacher revises previous lesson with pupils

Step II: Teacher introduces and explain new topic to pupils

Step III: Pupils are allowed to ask questions

Step IV: Teacher writes note on the boards for pupils

Evaluation:

What is mechanized farming
List four importance of mechanized farming
List five farm implement

Conclusion: Teacher moves round for inspection, marking and correction of notes where necessary.

Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Primary 6