Environmental Adult Education and Environmentally-Friendly Farming: How Necessary?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31150/ajshr.v3i12.1831Keywords:
Farming, Environmentally-Friendly methods of Farming, Environmental Adult EducationAbstract
The work seeks to examine how necessary Environmental Adult Education could promote environmentally-friendly farming in the study area. The concept of farming and environmentally-friendly methods of crop farming were examined, Farming methods that degrade the environment; Nature, features and potentials of environmentally-friendly methods of crop farming were also examined. The work discovered the adults employed environmentally-unfriendly methods crop farming such as slash/burn practice and felling of all the trees on their farm land before planting among other things. It also discovered the adults used the unfriendly methods because they did not have the knowledge of environmentally-friendly methods of crop farming hence they adopted the unfriendly methods. The work discovered that the adults need to be educated to acquire the knowledge of environmental adult education to enable them have the understanding of the environment and their relationship with the environment It was therefore suggested among other things that staff of Rivers State Agricultural Development Programmes (RSADP) should be given environmental adult education to enable them have the knowledge to pass to the crop farmers in their areas of jurisdiction; in order to promote environmentally-friendly methods of crop farming among their clienteles.
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