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1.24. Importance of compost manure

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  • 1. 1.1 SUB-STRAND: SOIL
    • 1.1. Soil Particles - Types of soil particles
    • 1.2. Activity 1
    • 1.3. Activity 2
    • 1.4. Activity 3 - Ability of soil to hold water
    • 1.5. Activity 4
    • 1.6. Physical properties of different types of soil
    • 1.7. Activity 5
    • 1.8. Activity 6
    • 1.9. Game
    • 1.10. Uses of soil in farming
    • 1.11. Practical Activity
    • 1.12. Importance of Soil
    • 1.13. Practical Activity
    • 1.14. Game
    • 1.15. Relationship between ability to hold water and uses of soil
    • 1.16. Let us Learn
    • 1.17. Practical Activity
    • 1.18. Compost Manure
    • 1.19. Game
    • 1.20. Let us Learn
    • 1.21. Practical Activity
    • 1.22. Steps in preparing compost manure
    • 1.23. Practical Activity
    • 1.24. Importance of compost manure
    • 1.25. Practical Activity
  • 2. 1.2 SUB STRAND ; WATER
    • 2.1. Uses of water in farming
    • 2.2. Let us Learn
    • 2.3. Practical Activity
    • 2.4. Water conservation in farming - Drip irrigation
    • 2.5. Let us learn
    • 2.6. Practical Activity
    • 2.7. Practical Activity 2
    • 2.8. Practical Activity 3
    • 2.9. Game
  • 3. Living better with wild animals.
    • 3.1. Damages caused by small wild animals in the farm.
    • 3.2. Practical Activity
    • 3.3. Making a scarecrow using locally available materials
    • 3.4. Small animals that destroy both our crops and our domestic animals
    • 3.5. Keeping off small wild animals from the farm
    • 3.6. Practical Activity
    • 3.7. Practical Activity 2
    • 3.8. Storage of photos of small wild animals
    • 3.9. Practical Activity
    • 3.10. Practical Activity
  • 4. 1.3 SUB STRAND ; GROWING FRUIT SEEDS
    • 4.1. Fruit seed collection -Practical Activity
    • 4.2. Game
    • 4.3. Collecting fruit tree seeds from the local environment
    • 4.4. Fruit seed preparation
    • 4.5. Practical Activity
    • 4.6. Practical Activity 2
    • 4.7. Sowing seeds into a nursery bed - Practical Activity
    • 4.8. Care for seedlings
    • 4.9. Game
    • 4.10. Let us talk
    • 4.11. Practical Activity
    • 4.12. Selling fruit tree seedlings - Practical Activity
    • 4.13. Transplanting - Preparation of seedlings for transplanting
    • 4.14. Steps for preparing seedlings for transplanting
    • 4.15. Let us learn
    • 4.16. Practical Activity
    • 4.17. Transplanting seedling to a seedbed
    • 4.18. Care for young fruit trees
    • 4.19. Practical Activity
    • 4.20. Practical Activity 2
    • 4.21. Game
    • 4.22. Let us learn
    • 4.23. Watering fruit tree seedlings to supplement moisture.
    • 4.24. Game
    • 4.25. Let us learn
    • 4.26. Let us talk
    • 4.27. Practical Activity
    • 4.28. Applying mulch to conserve water
    • 4.29. Let us learn
    • 4.30. Let us talk
    • 4.31. Practical Activity
    • 4.32. Weeding
    • 4.33. How to weed
    • 4.34. Let us learn
    • 4.35. Practical Activity
  • 5. 1.4 CONSERVATION PROJECTS
    • 5.1. Edible crop gardening
    • 5.2. Edible crop gardening
    • 5.3. Practical Activity
    • 5.4. Right stage for harvesting
    • 5.5. Game
    • 5.6. Let us talk
    • 5.7. Practical Activity
    • 5.8. Importance of eating fruits for nutrition
    • 5.9. Practical Activity
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