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Agriculture for Secondary Schools

(d) Choose a suitable piece of land in your school area to grow each of the
crops.
(e) Identify all necessary activities to be performed in raising each of the
crops.
(f) Determine when and how each of the identified activity will be done for
each of the crops.
(g) Develop a cropping calendar for the identified activities (with budget
estimates for each of the crops).

(h) Examine the total costs of producing each of the crops versus the set goals
and targets.
(i) Determine how the resources for raising each of the crops will be obtained.

2. Identify the kinds of records that are important for each of the crops and set
schedules as well as templates for record-keeping. Carry out production of each
of the crops as per the calendars you have prepared in task 1 (g).
3. Manage the post-harvest practices for each of the crops.
4. Compare what you have obtained from each of the crops with the set goals and
yield targets.
5. Compare your production operations, challenges and yields with others carried
out in other places in and outside Tanzania.

6. Make reflections on all tasks done in this activity.
7. Using the experience gained from this activity, plan for and implement the next
production cycle of the same or different horticultural, oil and starchy root/tuber
crops.

Production of perennial crops

Perennial crops include crop plants that have life span exceeding two years. You can
realise that some of the crops you have already learnt can also fall under the category
of perennial crops. Examples of perennial crops include coffee, cacao, tea, cashew,
banana, coconut, oil palms, sisal, macadamia, almond, fruit trees, grass pastures,
leguminous tree forages and cultivated forest trees. Most of perennial crops serve
as source of raw materials for the industries or agro-related industries. Perennial
crops may provide an opportunity for employment and source of income for those
involved in production and industries. Perennial crops also provide food for human

and livestock. Figures 1.90 to 1.97 show some of perennial crops which are grown
in various areas of Tanzania.

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