Department Of Innovative Agriculture (IAE)

GOAL:  The National Innovation Diploma in Agriculture is designed to produce a self – reliant, skilled and productive agriculturist.

OBJECTIVES:  A product of NID in Agriculture should be able to:

• Establish agricultural enterprises in fish, crop and animal production and support services;
• Create enterprise opportunities in apiary, sericulture floriculture and micro-livestock e.g. Rabbits, cane rat snailery,quails and pigeons.
• Carry out enterprise ventures in the production of animal feeds.
• Create enterprises in processing, storage and marketing of Agricultural produce.
• Create enterprises in pest and disease control.

Entry Requirements for National Innovation Diploma in Agriculture.

The general entry requirements for the NID programme in agriculture are:

 

• Five credits level passes in WAEC or NECO and NABTEB in not more than two sittings. The subjects must include Biology/Agricultural Science, Chemistry and any three of the following:

Geography, Mathematics, Economics, Technical Drawing, Physics and English language.  At least, a pass in English language and Mathematics is compulsory.

• Candidates who have successfully completed the Board’s recognized pre-National diploma (Science Technology) course may be admitted into the programme. Such students must have passed Biology/Agricultural science, Chemistry, Mathematics, English language and any one of the following subjects:  Economics, Technical Drawing, Physics and Geography at WASC, SSSC, GCE O’Level or NEW and NABTEB before undertaking the course.

STRUCTURE OF PROGRAMME

The National Innovation diploma in Agriculture is a two year programme i.e. four semesters. Three months supervised industrial work experience (SIWES) shall be carried out at the end of each year of the programme. Each semester shall be of 17 weeks duration made up as follows: 15 Contact weeks of teaching, i.e. recitation, practical exercises, quiz, tests, etc and 2 weeks for examination and registration.

 

PROPOSED CURRICULUM TABLE
YEAR I FIRST SEMESTER
S/N	COURSE CODE	COURSE TITLE	CREDIT UNITS
1	STB 111	Morphology and Physiology of living things	2
2	BCH 111	General & Physical chemistry	3
3	MTH 112	Logic & Linear Algebra	2
4	BPH 111	Mechanics & Properties of matter	3
5	IAE 111	Soil science	3
6	IAE 112	Rural Sociology & Agric. Extension	3
7	IAE 113	Basic Land Surveying	3
8	AGT 212	Agro-climatology	1
9	ENT 111	Introduction to Entrepreneurship	2
10	CSC 111	Introduction to Computer	2
11	GNS 111	English Language and Communication Skills I	2
12	IDS 111	Rudiments of Christian Life	1
		TOTAL	27
YEAR I SECOND SEMESTER
S/N	COURSE CODE	COURSE TITLE	CREDIT UNITS
1	IAE 121	Cereals and Legumes Production	3
2	IAE 122	Bee Keeping and Sericulture	3
3	AGT 222	Poultry Production	2
4	IAE 124	Horticultural Crop Production	2
5	IAE 125	Ruminant Animal Production	2
6	IAE 126	Fiber Crop Production	2
7	AGT 122	Crop Protection	2
8	IAE 128	Root and Tuber Crop Production	3
9	GNS 121	English Language and Communication Skill II	2
10	ENT 121	Practice of Entrepreneurship	2
11	IDS 121	Life and Times of Archbishop Benson Idahosa	2
		TOTAL	23
YEAR II FIRST SEMESTER
S/N	COURSE CODE	COURSE TITLE	CREDIT UNITS
1	AGT 231	Statistics and Field Experimentation	2
2	CME 122	Workshop Practice	2
3	IAE 215	Fish Farming	2
4	IAE 214	Swine Production	2
5	AGT 214	Tree Crops	2
6	IAE 216	Industrial Crop Production	2
7	AGT 223	Farm power and mechanization	2
8	IAE 218	Feasibility Studies and Farm Development	2
9	AGT 224	Principles of Genetics and Breeding	1
		TOTAL	17
YEAR II SECOND SEMESTER
S/N	COURSE CODE	COURSE TITLE	CREDIT UNITS
1	IAE 221	Feed Production (Livestock/Fisheries)	3
2	IAE 222	Animal products processing	3
3	IAE 223	Principles of Animal Health	2
4	AGT 225	Crop Processing and Storage	3
5	IAE 225	Pasture and Forage Crops Production	2
6	AGT 229	Farm Management	1
7	IAE 227	Principles of Irrigation and Drainage	3
8	IAE 228	Micro livestock Production	3
9	GNS 221	Library and Research Methods	2
10	IAE 229	Project Work	4
		TOTAL	26