NAME OF THE CLUB: AGRICULTURE CLUB – 2010

GOAL:

To create awareness and interest among the young and educated generation to take up agriculture as an
occupation.

Objectives:

 To impart skill and knowledge on agriculture to the students.

 To inculcate the dignity of labour among the youths.

 To create awareness among the students on the importance of agriculture.

 To motivate school youths to take up agriculture as an occupation.

 To help generate school agriculture fund by selling vegetables product.

 To develop students’ interest in the agriculture from commercial point of view.

Strategies:

 The programme will explore the possibilities of providing agriculture based education in line with
wholesome education.

 The programme in this school will have farming system of growing vegetables only.

 The agriculture activities in the school will be implemented on experimental basis and will be
supervised by FAT.

 The income generated from the sale of agricultural produce will be recorded in a stock register
and will be handed over to the SDF committee members.

 The members of agriculture club will be taken to field trip to visit some of the centres related to
farming and livestock.

 As an academic activity, quiz on agriculture will be conducted.

 Action Plan – 2010

Date Month Activity

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3 March Introduction of SAP to the club members
10th -do- Ploughing and preparation of beds for sowing vegetables
17th -do- Theory class on importance of school gardening
24th -do- Theory class on importance of school gardening
31st -do- Practical work in the field with vegetable growing
7th April Introduction on application on EM
14th -do- Importance of EM
21st -do- Audio visual of application of EM
th
28 -do- Practical on application of EM
5th May Introduction on mushroom cultivation
12th -do- Mushroom cultivation
19th -do- Practical with mushroom cultivation
26th -do- Practical with mushroom cultivation
9th June Theory class on pests/plant problem/weeds
16th -do- Test on agriculture knowledge
21st July Club members visits club garden and resume gardening
28th -do- Introduction on inter-cropping/mulching/crop rotation
4th August Introduction on poultry farming
11th -do- Introduction of piggery
18th -do- Importance of bee keeping
25th -do- Field trip to bee keeping
1st September Introduction on diary farming
8th -do- Field trip to Bathpalathang
15th -do- Field trip to RNR-RC Center
22nd -do- Introduction on fishery
29th -do- Fishery
6th October Audio visual on vegetable growing
13th -do- Introduction of food fact sheet
20th -do- Theory on how do we keep growing garden
27th -do- Club evaluation