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Farm Structures and Buildings

The document describes various farm structures and buildings, including their types and specific purposes. Farm structures, such as barns and silos, facilitate farm operations, while farm buildings include poultry houses and storage facilities. The document categorizes farm structures into production, processing, storage, maintenance, utility, and protective structures based on their uses.

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Farm Structures and Buildings

The document describes various farm structures and buildings, including their types and specific purposes. Farm structures, such as barns and silos, facilitate farm operations, while farm buildings include poultry houses and storage facilities. The document categorizes farm structures into production, processing, storage, maintenance, utility, and protective structures based on their uses.

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TOPIC: Farm structures and buildings

CONTENT: Description of farm structures and buildings;


(i) Farm structures- barns, silos, rhombus, paddock, fish ponds, etc
(ii) Farm buildings- poultry houses, pen, store, offices, utility building,
security post etc

Sub – Topic 1: Farm structures

Farm structures
Farm structure is facility constructed on the farmland to ease farm operations e.g
silos, nursery, feed mill etc.
Farm structures are very simple buildings designed to serve specific purposes on the farm
so that farm operations are more easily carried out eg barns, cribs, silos, etc,
Examples of farm structures:
i. Silos vi. Silage pit xi. Nursery
ii. Rhumbus vii. Feed mill xii. Paddock
iii. Cribs viii. Compost pit/manure pit xiii. Cages
iv. Barns ix. Drying shed xiv. Pond
v. Bins x. Abattoir xv. Hutches

Types of farm structures and their uses

Farm structures are classified based on their uses


1. Production structures: These are structures for rearing animals and nursing young
crop plants/seedlings e.g. poultry battery cages, grazing paddocks, poultry range
shelters, fish pods, rabbit hutches, potting sheds for seedlings (nurseries),
2. Processing structures: These are structures that facilitate the conversion of
harvested farm produce into usable and marketable forms.
Examples are processing sheds for processing machines such as grinding machine
sheller, oil palm press, feed mill machines, silage pit compost pit, drying
shed/pavement/barns; slaughter slab; smoking chamber etc
3. Storage structures: These are structures constructed for the storage and
preservation of farm produce e.g silos, cribs, rhumbus, barns, irrigation dams,
compost pits, feed mills, tanks, cold stores etc.
4. Maintenance structures: These are structures where repairs and servicing of farm
equipment take place. These include mechanics workshop; carpenter’s workshop
etc.
5. Utility structures: These are structures used to serve various purposes on the farm.
Examples are dams, irrigation canals, drainage canals, well and water tanks,
pumping house, waste disposal pits,.
6. Protective structures: These are structures made to protect crops and livestock
from possible attack by pests and diseases. Examples are fences, spray devices,
animal dips etc.

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