Importance of Agriculture As A Means Of Foreign Exchange | Advantages and Disadvantages of Exporting Cash Crops for Foreign Exchange Primary 4 (Basic 4) Term 1 Week 6 Agriculture

AGRICULTURE

PREVOCATIONAL STUDIES 

FIRST TERM 

WEEK 6

PRIMARY 4

THEME – AGRICULTURE 

 PREVIOUS LESSON – Importance of Agriculture As A Source of Materials For Clothing And Medicines Primary 4 (Basic 4) Term 1 Week 5 Agriculture

TOPIC – IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE 

LEARNING AREA 

1. Introduction

2. Agriculture As A Means of Foreign Exchange

3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Foreign Exchange

4. Revision and Weekly Assessment (Test)

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives –

1. identify and list agricultural produces that can be exported.

2. state the importance of foreign exchange.

3. evaluate the disadvantages of foreign exchange.

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

The pupils can identify cash crops like cashew nut, groundnut, palm oil, etc.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of chart showing list of cash crops.

METHOD OF TEACHING

Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Scheme of Work

9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

Course Book

All Relevant Material

Online Information

CONTENT OF THE LESSON

LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION 

Agricultural modernization prepares conditions for farmers to boosting their productivity, increasing agricultural surplus to accumulate capital, and increasing foreign exchange via exports, mostly especially cash crops. 

Cash crops are agricultural crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the international market or for export to earn foreign exchange. Cash crops are grown on a large scale and sometimes compete with land use and resource requirements of the local community.

Major cash crops are influenced by global market prices, farmer’s revenues are depending on them. Examples of cash crops in Nigeria that farmers can earn foreign exchange via exports are, 

1. Oil palm

2. Cotton

3. Cocoa

4. Cassava

5. Rubber

6. Yam

7. Cashew nuts

8. Tobacco

9. Ginger

10. Groundnut

11. Soya beans

12. Rice

13. Sugarcane

14. Kolanut

15. Timber

LESSON 2 – ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF EXPORTING CASH CROPS TO EARN FOREIGN EXCHANGE

ADVANTAGES OF EXPORTING CASH CROPS TO EARN FOREIGN EXCHANGE

1. It encourage mass production.

2. It creates many job opportunities.

3. It boosts local economies.

4. It enables export of surplus produce.

5. It promotes innovative farming techniques.

6. It improves standard of living.

DISADVANTAGES OF EXPORTING CASH CROPS TO EARN FOREIGN EXCHANGE 

1. It leads to mono products.

2. It leads to scarcity of other agricultural products.

3. It leads to unhealthy competition among the exporters.

REVISION AND WEEKLY ASSESSMENT (TEST) 

PRESENTATION

To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:

1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson based on what he/she taught or what the pupils have learned.

2. Teacher organizes pupils in groups or pairs depending on the size of the class and available instructional materials.

3. Teacher displays chart showing familiar cash crops in Nigeria.

4. Teacher lets the pupils as a group identify and discuss the importance of each crop.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils identify and discuss the importance of groundnut, palm oil, cashew, etc.

5. Teacher uses the chart and the pupil’s relevant responses to introduce the lesson and leads a class discussion on agriculture as a means of foreign exchange.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils pay attention to the introduction and participate actively in the class discussion on agriculture as a means of foreign exchange.

5. Teacher uses chart to lead a class discussion the advantages and disadvantages of exporting cash crops foreign exchange.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils participate actively in the class discussion on advantages and disadvantages of exporting cash crops foreign exchange.

6. Teacher summarizes the lesson on the board using appropriate lesson evaluation.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils participate actively in the summary by responding correctly to the questions and write as instructed.

CONCLUSION

To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

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LESSON EVALUATION 

Teacher asks the pupils to –

1. list 10 agricultural produces that can be exported.

2. state 5 importance of exporting cash crops for foreign exchange.

3. evaluate the 3 disadvantages of exporting cash crops for foreign exchange.