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AGT 122 Crop Protection

ND1 levelComputing & ICT24 topics

AGT 122 covers 24 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Principles and importance of crop protection
  2. Crop protection methods
  3. Integrated pest management
  4. Crop diseases and causal agents
  5. Symptoms, effects and spread of plant diseases
  6. Disease control methods
  7. Characteristics and life cycle of insects
  8. Insect damage to crops
  9. Common insect pests and host plants
  10. Methods of insect pest control
  11. Pesticide mode of action and safety precautions
  12. Weeds in crop production
  13. Weed classification
  14. Effects of weeds on crops
  15. Vegetables of economic importance in Nigeria
  16. Local and exotic vegetables
  17. Improved vegetable varieties
  18. Nutritional value of vegetables
  19. Growth requirements of vegetables
  20. Cultural practices in vegetable production
  21. Vegetable pests and diseases
  22. Harvesting and post-harvest handling of vegetables
  23. Vegetables for processing
  24. Vegetable forcing

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Principles and importance of crop protection

Crop protection is the science of preventing, controlling, and managing plant pests, diseases, and weeds to safeguard crop yield and quality. Mastering its core principles—integrated pest management, risk assessment, and sustainable practices—is essential for exam success because they underpin all practical and policy decisions in crop protection.

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