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Week 1 & 2
Topic: pest and diseases
Subtitle: pest and diseases of crop plants
Learning Objectives: At the end of this lesson, pupils should be able to:
1. Define pests and diseases.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS:
The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of charts and pictures showing the different types of house.
Resources and Materials:
Building Background/connection to prior knowledge: pupils are familiar with the topic in their previous classes.
Content
Pests are animals that damage agricultural produce by feeding on them. Common pests of crops are insects, birds, bats, rodents and monkeys. Diseases are abnormalities in the growth of crops. Common diseases of crops include Maize smut, groundnut rosette, cassava mosaic, tomato rot, yam rot, cassava leaf blight and rice smut.
Pests and diseases have these adverse effects on the growth and development of crop plants:
COMMON PEST
The pests that affect them are
Insect pests
The insects that damage cereal crops include stem borers, weevils and army worms. The stem borer damages the crops by boring holes into, and chewing the stems of maize, sugarcane, sorghum and rice. It also damages the cobs of maize.
Rodents
The common rodents that damage cereal crops are rats and grass cutters. They also damage the young seedlings of cereal crops.
Birds
Common birds that damage cereal crops include weaver birds, quells and bush fowls. Weaver birds eat up mature grains of cereals, such as rice, maize and guinea corn. They also tear off parts of the leaves of the crops for making their nests. This reduces the yield of crops. Bush fowls feed on mature grains of cereal crops.
Methods of controlling pests
Strategies& Activities:
Assessment & Evaluation:
(WRAP-UP CONCLUSION)
Teacher goes over the topic once again to enhance better understanding.
ASSIGNMENT
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