2025 FORM 3 KLB AGRICULTURE SCHEMES OF WORK – TERM 2

The schemes of work cover:

• FARM STRUCTURES
  • Types of construction materials.
  • Farm buildings.
  • Livestock structures.
  • Livestock structures. Zero grazing unit and calf pen.
  • Poultry house, piggery unit & rabbit hutch. Fences.
  • Seedbeds, nursery structures, seed boxes & vegetative propagation units.
• AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS II
  • Meaning of land tenure. Communal land tenure.
  • Individual land tenure Land fragmentation.
  • Land reforms.
  • Development of settlement schemes in Kenya.
• SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
  • Soil erosion. Effects of soil erosion & control measure.
  • Mass wasting (solifluction)
  • Methods of soil and water conservation.
  • Types of terraces.
  • Harvesting water. Identification of common weeds.
• WEEDS AND WEED CONTROL
  • Effects of weeds.
  • Chemical weed control.
  • Selectivity and effectiveness of herbicides. Herbicides and the environment.
  • Mechanical weed control.
  • Cultural biological & legislative methods of weed control.
• CROP PESTS AND DISEASES
  • Effects of crop pests. Classification of pests. Field insect pests.
  • Piercing and sucking pests.
  • Other field pests.
  • Storage pests. Crop pest control.
  • Pesticides.
  • Biological pest control. Effects of diseases.
  • Fungal diseases.
  • Viral diseases.
  • Bacterial diseases. Nutritional disorders.
  • Control of crop diseases.
• CROP PRODUCTION VI FIELD PRACTICES II
  • MAIZE Ecological requirements. Describe land preparation Field operations.
  • Pest control & Disease control.
  • Harvesting, storage and marketing of maize.
  • FINGER MILLET Ecological requirements and preparation for planting materials.
  • Field operations, pest and disease control.
  • SORGHUM Ecological requirements and preparation for planting materials.
  • BEANS Ecological requirements and preparation for planting materials. Field operations, pest and disease control & harvesting of beans.
  • RICE Ecological requirements and preparation for planting materials.
  • Field operations, pest and disease control & harvesting of rice.