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Week: 10

Class: Junior Secondary School 2

Term: 1st Term

Age: 13 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods

Date:

Subject: Agriculture

Topic:-       Cultural Practices

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to

  1. Describe the post-harvesting operations

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES: Identification, explanation, questions and answers, demonstration, videos from source

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Videos, loud speaker, textbook, pictures

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES

PERIOD 1-2

PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

STEP 1

INTRODUCTION

The teacher revises the previous lesson on post-planting operations

Students pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

The teacher explains the meaning of post-harvesting operations

Students pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

She then discusses each of the post-harvesting operations

Students pay attention and participate

STEP 4

NOTE TAKING

The teacher writes a summarized note on the board

The students copy the note in their books

 

NOTE

POST-HARVESTING OPERATIONS

These are activities that take place after the harvesting the crops.

They are

  1. Processing: this is the conversion of freshly harvested produce into new forms for consumption, storage or experimental purposes
  2. Storage: this is the preservation of agricultural produce for future use. The storage materials used are silos, cribs, barns, fences, rhombus etc

Purpose of storage

  1. availability for the next planting season
  2. to protect seed from spoilage
  3. to prevent pilfering and stealing
  4. Distribution of crops: this is the supplying of crops to the end-user.
  5. Marketing of crops: This is the process of ensuring that the crops produced move from producers to the consumers. For consumers to buy quality products, it must be graded. Crops can be graded as A, B and C or grade 1, 2 and 3.

Some marketing agents of crops

  1. co-operative societies
  2. producers or farmers
  3. retailers or petty traders

 

EVALUATION:    1. Define the term “Post-harvesting operations”

  1. Discuss all the post-harvesting operations

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively