The design of Agriculture lessons under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) has been described as elaborate and could be used to encourage young children to love farming.
After being engaged in the first lessons in their formative ages, the learners have been found to easily understand and engage in farming and even participate in highly technical work at family level.
This is an observation that is common among most parents and teachers, who have admitted that the CBC learner interaction with agriculture practically exposes them to crop and animal husbandry to build their farming skills.
One parent in Embu County Hanna Mwangi confessed to even learning some of the words applied in farming from her Grade 6 child who appears to have keenly internalized agriculture lessons.
She said teachers should now be motivated to exploit the practical nature of the subject to inculcate passion in the young learners.
“Teachers should identify ways of making Agriculture more interesting by creating gardens where the CBC learners could practically interact with agriculture through growing of various crops,” she suggests, tipping CBC to cement the place of Agriculture in Kenya’s economy.
By Robert Nyagah
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