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Agriculture for Secondary Schools

Drug as crop and livestock produce and
a substance used to treat an illness, products through the utilisation of
relieve a symptom or modify a factors of production, i.e., land, labour,
chemical process in the body for a entrepreneurship and capital goods
specific purpose
Feed
Dyke an act of giving food especially to
a wall or bank built in all sides of a livestock. It also mean an act of
pond that is used to hold back water. animals taking food. It may also mean
It is constructed by suitable materials, the food given to livestock
e.g., the soil which is usually available
from pond excavation Feeder
a container for giving food to animals
Egg
the hard-shelled reproductive body Feedstuff
produced by a poultry. It also mean an any material used as a feed especially
animal reproductive body consisting of for livestock
an ovum together with its nutritive and Fingerling
protective envelopes produced by a a young fish that is about the size of
female animal and having the capacity a human finger. Fingerlings are about
to develop into a new individual 3 - 4 weeks old and are about 3 - 4 cm
capable of independent existence if it in length
combines with sperm from a male
Fixed costs
Ensiling
to put forage into a silo in order to costs that are constant whatever the
preserve it as silage amount of output is produced; they
are incurred on regular basis
Enteritis
an inflammation of small intestines Flock
mostly in young animals which is group of animals of the same kind.
characterised with abdominal pain and The term is commonly used for
poultry
mucous diarrhoea
Footbath
Evisceration a prepared shallow pool at entries of
removal of the internal organs and farm and barns which is filled with
legs before it is washed and inspected disinfectant solution for disinfecting

Farming business feet, equipment and vehicles to prevent
the farming and farming-related entry of diseases to an animal farm
commercial activities; it involves Forage
production, processing and marketing edible parts of plants other than
of agricultural commodities such separated grain, mainly plant leaves

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