BEN TUTOR AND LEARNING RESOURSES

 Introduction  In livestock rearing, health is one of the factor to consider as it provides high profits in animal production.  Health is a condition in which all the body organs or parts and systems of an animal are normal and are functioning normally. The control of Pests and diseases is very important towards the production of animals. On the other hand unhealthy animals or livestock are uneconomical to keep as their production is low. Why do we keep animals healthy  ? The importance of keeping animals healthy include: Healthy livestocks produce good quality products. This promote a high market value  Healthy animals grow fast and reach maturity stage quickly.  Good health gives animals a Prolonged economic and production life. Healthy animals reduce the cost of production and maximise profits . Healthy animals will not spread Pests, parasites and diseases to other animals.  Signs of good health in livestocks  The reason for observing and recognise the symptoms of ill-health early e

 Field practices  Field practices are routine or operations performed in the agricultural field to enhance proper growth and optimise yields of the various crops grown in a piece of land.  These operations are done at the best time so that the crops benefit from the environment without any adverse effects.  There are several Field practices and routines carried out in the fields. These includes:  Crop rotation, mulching, thinning, Gapping, roguing,pruning, plant training, earthing up,weed control etc. (A) Crop rotation  Crop rotation is the growing of different types of crops or crops of different families on the same piece of land in an orderly sequence. This practice of growing crops in an orderly sequence is made possible by sub divinding the land into plots. Different crops are grown in these plots in a particular season and rotated or grown in the next plot in the next season. This practice is carried out especially in annual crops where crops are grown and get mature and harveste

 Components of air Air is a mixture of many gases. These gases include oxygen, nitrogen, carbon (iv) oxide and noble gases. Air also contains water vapour and dust particles found in the atmosphere. Air is very important as it sustains life on earth. All living organisms need air for respiration. Plants need air for photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is a process by which plants make their own food. It involves the presence of carbon (iv) oxide as one of the component of air. Air is also used for combustion or burning of fuels to give energy.  Nitrogen gas contains about 78.1% of air,oxygen 20.9%,carbon (iv) oxide 0.03% and noble gases about 0.97%. The dust and water vapour are variable.  Nitrogen  Nitrogen occurs in many compounds such as nitrates, nitrites and ammonium compounds. It is also found as a free gas in air. It is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere as it comprises of 78.1 % of the earth's atmosphere. Nitrogen is also a constituent of all living cells where it occurs as

 Entrepreneurship  Entrepreneurship is the process of creating an innovative business with an aim of making profit under conditions of risks. It involves generating an idea,getting the necessary resources, organising them and creating a profitable business.  An Entrepreneur is a person who Identifies a business opportunity and Obtains the resources necessary to initiate business activity.  Importance of  entrepreneurship to the economy  1. Job creation  Entrepreneurs create jobs for themselves and for others, thus reducing the problems of unemployment in the country.  2. Promotion of an entrepreneurial culture.  Entrepreneurial culture is an environment that prepares the community to take advantage of available business opportunities in the society. Entrepreneurs employ other people to work for them.  3.Creation of market for goods and services   Entrepreneurs create markets for goods and services produced locally, eg. Raw materials. This enables the local producers to expand productio

 Introduction  The methods used by teachers to learn about human behaviours in the school can be grouped into two categories. These are Prescientific Scientific  Prescientific methods  These are methods that make use of everyday experience to study human behaviour in the school. They have not been proved or tested for validity. The following are some of the methods belonged to this category.  Use of certain habits  The teacher identify particular habit or practices used by the learners in the school eg.crying,rude,unable to complete assignments, fighting, sleeping in class,being late,truancy etc. The teacher uses the trends observed in these habits to learn about students behaviour from which he/she can generate a corrective action.  Pre-established beliefs Teachers may hold prior beliefs about learners and when they perform poorly in examination. Eg.family history ie aggressive, indiscipline, drug addicts etc Use of common sense  Common sense refers to basic rules of the thumb or prac

  Introduction  Agriculture is the growing of crops and the keeping of livestock . The growing of crops is cultivation while keeping of livestock is pastoralism or herding. This is also refered to as animal husbandry. The feeding of world population depends on agriculture and the type of agriculture practised in any region of the world depends on climate, availability of labour and other resources.  In early days man used to hunt. He moved from place to place in all sorts of weather looking for animals to kill and gathering fruits, roots and other items. As time passed man learnt to domesticated animals,he could keep them for food when weather conditions were not favourable for venturing out. The taming of animals made man to have a more settled way of life because hunting was now limited. Factors that led to growing of crops and Rearing animals in Early Days  There were climatic changes that caused the animals to migrate far from their previous locations.  This made the man not to rea

 Introduction  The shortage of food in a given country is a big problem to citizens. The population experience adverse effects such as hunger ,poor standard of living ,starvation especially in children,poor health etc. The shortage of food is contributed by various Factors especially in the third world countries.  Factors that have contributed to the shortage of food in the third world .  Adverse climatic conditions . The climatic conditions is when there is little or no rain at all. A place where the rainfall is limited experiences the shortage  of food. Where there is no rainfall at all in the country for a period of time, the place is most likely to be desert and no production is done. 2. Poor agricultural policies   Most of the third world countries have emphasised on cash crops such as coffee, tea, rubber, cotton sugarcane etc and abandon the production of food crops such as maize ,rice,beans,wheat etc. 3. Rapid population growth  As the rate of population growth overtake the rate

  Health and health education  Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or informity. It is a state of normal functional equilibrium or homeostasis.  Health education is a process through which people learn about their health and specifically how to improve it. It is an educational programme directed to the general public which attempts to improve, maintain and safeguard the health care of the community.  Objectives of health education  Optimum development of the individual with special reference to physical and emotional Development.  Betterment of the human relationship from the point of view of health. Application of health facts and principles in respect to economic efficiency in the production and consumption of goods and services.  Importance of health education to learners/children.  The child has more capacity to assimilate education and can be moulded into any shape It helps the children to obtain health habits