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AEM512: Rural Youth programme in Agricultural Extension
The essence of this structure is to facilitate proper understanding. The introduction is a brief on the expected contents of the study unit. Objectives are the expected behaviours of the learner (you) by the end of the unit. Study the objectives before proceeding into the unit and try to identify them as you study the main content. You should also re-look at the objectives at the completion of the unit to ascertain your understanding of the main content.
What Will You Learn?
The broad aim of the course is to enable the learners appreciate the various rural youth programmes in agricultural extension. These programmes which are primarily designed for the development of the youth and agriculture need to be understood by every agricultural extension worker. To this end, it is expected that the learner should be able to appreciate the efforts of the federal and state governments in fostering agricultural development through youth involvement.
Teacher Of Course
Includes
At the end of the course, it is expected that students should be able to:
- define youth from the UN, African, religious- African and social
- personal points-of-view
- state an operational definition of youth
- state three educational, social, economic and recreational objectives of rural youth programmes in agricultural extension
- outline the steps you would follow in organising rural youth club
- describe and state three objectives of a named rural youth programme in agricultural extension in Nigeria.
- describe and state three objectives of a named rural youth programme in foreign country.
- discuss four recent youth problem behaviours in Nigeria
- state and explain seven roles of the Federal Government of Nigeria in tackling youth problems.