Why farm produce should be processed

 

 

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE FIRST TERM E NOTES FOR BASIC FOUR

1st Term Agricultural Science

Primary 4

 

Subject : AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

 

Topic : Why farm produce should be processed

 

Class : BASIC FOUR / PRIMARY 4 / GRADE 4

 

 

 TERM : FIRST  TERM  

 

 

WEEK : WEEK 10

 

 

LEARNING MATERIALS

• Whiteboard/Chalkboard
• Explanatory posters/pictures
• Explanatory videos

 

Instructional Materials :

• Lagos State Scheme of Work.
• Online Materials.
• Textbooks
• Workbooks
• Different types of soil

 

 

Previous Knowledge :

The pupils have been taught

 

Preparation of compost/manure

 

in their previous lesson

 

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

At the end of this lesson, Pupils should be able to

1.Say the meaning of farm produce.

2. Mention the  Importance of food processing

 

 

Content :

MEANING OF FARM PROCESSING

Farm produce are crops and other agricultural products sold by farmers.

Processing is the process of changing or converting farm produce from one state to another.

Farm produce processing is the process of turning raw food farm produce into eatable or edible food and other products.

The processes can be the following:

• Sun drying
• Peeling
• Milling
• Soaking
• Shelling
• Grinding
• Sieving
• Parboiling

PROCESS OF PROCESSING CASSAVA INTO GARRI

The farmer will harvest the cassava from his/her farmland.

The cassava tubers will peeled

Then the cassava will be wash and taken to a machine for grinding.

After grinding it.

It will be taken to another machine for removal of water.

After the removal of water

It will fried using heat (fire)

Then we will have garri

IMPORTANCE OF FOOD PROCESSING

• It improves usage of food.
• Improves food value
• Removal of poisonous agents from the food.
• Helps in storage of food
• Provide employment
• Provide source of income
• It enables us to get different kinds of food from a farm produce.
• It makes transporting of produce easy.
• Importance of food processing

METHOD OF FARM PRODUCE PRESERVATION CONT.

Presentation

The topic is presented step by step

 

Step 1:

The class teacher revises the previous topics

 

Step 2.

He introduces the new topic

 

Step 3:

The class teacher allows the pupils to give their own examples and he corrects them when the needs arise

 

 

Evaluation:

1.Define farm produce

2. List three Importance of food processing

3. Mention four methods of farm produce

 

Conclusion : The teacher summarizes the lesson. He or she gives out a short board summary of the topic as note .

He or she goes round to mark and does the necessary corrections.