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Abstract

ABSTRACT



Geography is, in the broadest sense, an education for life and for living. Learning through geography whether gained through formal learning or experimentally through travel, fieldwork and expenditions which helps to be more socially and environmentally sensitive, informed and responsible citizens and employees. It is a unique discipline bridging the social sciences (human geography) with the natural sciences (physical geography). Human geography concerns the understanding of the dynamics of physical geography concerns, the understanding of the dynamics of physical landscapes and environment. Understanding these dynamics is accomplished with the aid of field work of the environment.

Fieldwork is widely regarded as an essential component of geography education and geographers regard it as a vital instrument for understanding our world through direct experience for gathering basic data about this world and as a fundamental method for enacting geographical education.

Demonstration of fieldwork in the geographical environment of shonga, Kwara State capital was examined and referenced to some of the human and physical features such as;

▷ Geomorphology features,

▷ Climatic and vegetation characteristics,

▷ Hydrological characteristics,

▷ Geomorphology(rock and soil forms), and

▷ Social and cultural activities.

Table of Content

TABLE OF CONTENT



Acknowledgement

Table of Content



Abstract



CHAPTER ONE



1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 SCOPE OF STUDY

1.2 PURPOSE OF STUDY

1.2.1 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES



CHAPTER TWO



2.0 METHODOLOGY



CHAPTER THREE



3.0 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES:



3.1 HYDROLOGY

3.1 1 INFILTRATION (hydrology)

3.1.2 PROCESS OF INFILTRATION

3.1.3 MEASUREMENT OF INFILTRATION

3.1.4 TYPES OF INFILTRATION

3.1.5 GROUND WATER

3.1.6 ADVANTAGES OF GROUND WATER OVER OTHER SOURCE

3.1.7 MEASUREMENT OF GROUND WATER MOVEMENT

3.1.8 DISCHARGE (Hydrology)

3.1.9 RIVER DISCHARGE

3.1.10 DIFFERENT METHODS OF MEASURING DISCHARGE



3.2 CLIMATE AND VEGETATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

3.2.1 CLIMATE

3.2.2 VEGETATION

3.2.3 METHOD OF SAMPLING VEGETATION RESOURCE

3.3 THE FRAME WORK FOR LAND EVALUATION

3.3.1 ASSESSMENT OF LAND AND SOIL DEGRADATION

3.3.2 CONCEPTS, DEFINITION, AND PRINCIPLES

3.3.3 THE MANY FUNCTIONS OF LAND

3.3.4 LAND QUALITIES RELATED TO PRODUCTIVITY FROM CROPS OR

OTHER PLANT GROWTH

3.3.5 ATMOSPHERIC QUALITIES

3.3.6 LAND COVER QUALITIES

3.3.7 LAND SURFACE AND TERRAIN QUALITIES

3.3.8 SOIL QUALITIES

3.3.9 SUBSTRATUM OR UNDERGROUND QUALITIES

3.4 GEOMORPHOLOGY (ROCK AND SOIL FORMATION)

3.4.1 ROCK FORMATION

3.4.2 SOIL FORMATION



CHAPTER FOUR



4.0 HUMAN GEOGRAPHICAL ACTIVITIES:



4.1 AGRO-PROCESSING IN NIGERIA

4.1.1 SHONGA FARMS HOLDING LIMITED



4.2 DAIRY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN THE TROPICS

4.2.1 DAIRY FARMING

4.2.2 MILKING OPERATION

4.2.3 DAIRY FARM MANAGEMENT

4.2.4 PASTURE AT MID CALF HEIGHT PASTURE TO ABOVE ANKLE HEIGHT

4.2.5 MARKET



4.3 BANANA PLANTATION

4.3.1 ELEMENTS OF A BANANA PLANTATION

4.3.2 FARMING TECHNIQUES ON BANANA PLANTATION

4.3.3 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF BANANA PLANTATION

4.3.4 BANANA CULTIVATION PROCEDURES



4.4 PROBLEMS OF AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIA AND SOLUTION



CONCLUSION

REFERENCE

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

Change has been present throughout the long development of geography in which have been a number of different phrases or trends in the discipline. Throughout all this change over centuries, however, a few things have remained constant; for one the subject matter of geography hasn’t really changed since the time of the ancient Greeks (i.e human and physical geography), geographers have been concerned with the study of the earth’s landscapes, people, places and environment. It is quite simply about the world in which we live.

Something else that has not changed is the fact that geography has always been a discipline of observation. Observation is the basic way of understanding the fundamental components of geography which geographers have been observing for centuries. However, observation has formally been incorporated into geography through fieldwork.