The course introduces most agricultural principles and practices mostly at the foundational level. Weather conditions and their influence on the distributions of crops and animals in different altitudes and agro-zones, the influence of rainfall, temperature, wind and sunshine on crop growth and development, soil formation and soil profile, introduction on the range of different crops and animal types and systems available for subsistence and commercial production, nursery & brooder types, common chemicals used for weeds, insect pests and disease control, common pests and diseases, different types of fertilizers, farm machines and implements and farm tools, and basic agricultural practices such as bush clearing and preparation of land, marking, lining, drainage construction, seed preparation and germination, nursery management, plating of seedlings, fertilizing, composting, crop rotation, intercropping, agro-forestry, subsistence vs. commercial farming; and harvesting and processing of