Farm practice year popularly known as FPY is a one year program for all the 400 level basic Agric students of faculty of Agriculture in most universities in Nigeria.
The first six months of the program is spent on the school farm to gain experience in all areas of agriculture.
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| Students harvesting Manihot esculenta, popularly called Manihot esculenta |
The 2016/2017 session of this program has started 3 weeks ago in Federal University Oye-Ekiti (Ikole campus). It has been full of great experiences of learning new things. Although it can sometimes be stressful.
Below are more pictures from the school farm cultivated by students.
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| The Vigna unguiculata farm also know as Cowpea and popularly called beans. Photo credit: Onaolapo Honey |
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| Spraying of the field with insectide. The active ingredient is lambda cyhalothrin 2.5EC |
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| Inter-croping of maize and beans. (Zea mays and Vigna unguiculata). Maize is known as a vigorous nitrogen consumer and cowpea/beans is a very good nitrogen fixating Crop therefore the Cowpea complement for the nitrogen used by maize. |
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Some of the "FPY" students |
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