Form 2 Agriculture TIE Book (PDF Download)
Agriculture is a compulsory subject for Form I-IV students in General Education pathway who choose to join Agriculture stream. It is also an elective subject to students on other streams.
PROBLEMS OF AGRICULTURE
1. Pest and diseases (These attacks both crops and animals leading to low yields).
2. Poor transport and communication.
Most of the feeder roads in rural areas are seasonally hence affecting transportation of our agricultural products to the market during the rainy season.
3. Natural disasters e.g. long drought and floods cause destruction of crop and animals leading to loses. This has been greatly caused by climate changes.
4 Poverty: Most of the rural farmers are poor therefore cannot afford the expensive agricultural unit like fertilizers, wood seeds and pesticides.
5. Inadequate knowledge and skills: Most farmers lack enough knowledge which has greatly affected their level of production. E.g. most of them cannot read or write hence cannot take instructions on pesticides.
6. Poor crop varieties and animal breeds: Crop and animals being raised are of low production leading to loses.
7. Poor technology/tools used; The majority of the farmers are using poor tools that cannot support large scale products.
TANZANIA INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
The Tanzania Institute of Education (TIE) is a Parastatal Organization under the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MOEVT) charged with the responsibility of ensuring the quality of education in Tanzania at the pre-school, primary, secondary and teacher training levels.
The Institute is charged with the responsibility of interpreting government policies on education to befitting curriculum programs and instructional materials in order to facilitate provision of quality education at pre- primary, basic, secondary and teacher education levels.
