ZIMSEC O-Level Agriculture
5.3.5Crop production
Crop production in ZIMSEC O-Level Agriculture: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives
What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.
- 5.3.5.1Form 1: identify the branches of horticulture and explain their importance.
- 5.3.5.2Form 1: state the reasons for land preparation, prepare seedbeds, and establish, manage and market vegetable crops (one each of leaf, root, legume, bulb, tuber and fruit crops) at recommended spacing.
- 5.3.5.3Form 2: explain site selection, land preparation and planting patterns for an orchard, prepare planting holes and plant fruit trees, calculate fertiliser amounts for orchard crops, design an irrigation schedule, explain pruning, prepare fire guards, identify signs of maturity and market fruit.
- 5.3.5.4Form 3: state the reasons for land preparation, describe its steps, primary and secondary tillage, and conservation or minimum tillage techniques.
- 5.3.5.5Form 3: grow one cereal (maize, sorghum or wheat) and one legume (groundnuts, field beans or soya beans) using suitable cultivars and seed rates, carry out management practices, harvest, store and market the crops.
Lessons
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Conservation agriculture and Pfumvudza/Intwasa
30 min
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Establishing an orchard and producing fruit
40 min
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Growing groundnuts, soya beans and field beans
40 min
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Horticulture and vegetable production
40 min
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Land preparation and tillage
35 min
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Maize production from seedbed to store
40 min
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Small grains and wheat: sorghum, millets and wheat
35 min
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