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Agriculture for Secondary Schools

Preface

This textbook, Agriculture for Secondary Schools, is written specifically for Form
Three students in the United Republic of Tanzania. It is written in accordance
FOR ONLINE READING ONLY
with the 2023 Agriculture Syllabus for Ordinary Secondary Education (Form I -
IV), issued by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

This book consists of ten chapters; namely, introduction to cereal and pulse
crop production, maize production, sorghum production, paddy production,
common bean production, common pea production, cowpea production and
pigeon pea production. Other chapters are dairy cattle production and beef cattle
production. Each chapter contains texts, illustrations, activities, and exercises.
You are encouraged to do all activities and exercises as well as other assignments
provided by your teacher. Furthermore, you are expected to carry out a project
work on the principles and practices of any crop or livestock production of your
interest, covered at any class level of the ordinary secondary education. Doing so
will enable you to develop the intended competencies.

Additional learning resources are available in the TIE e-library at https://ol.tie.
go.tz or ol.tie.go.tz

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