Which of the following benefits of agriculture is of least importance to the peasant farmer?
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(C)
foreign exchange
2
Farmers who plant improved maize would harvest
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(B)
a high yield of maize
3
Which of the following land tenure system allows the owner greatest freedom to dispose of the land as he wishes?
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(B)
free-hold
4
Which of the following is not a government agricultural programme?
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(D)
West Africa Rice Development
5
The practice of planting one type of annual crop each season is referred to as
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(C)
mono-cropping
6
The most important use of land for agriculture production is
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(A)
grazing paddocks
7
Which of the following biotic factors are usually used to control cassava mealbugs?
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(B)
predators
8
The following are types of sedimentary rocks except
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(A)
granites
9
A reddish coloured soil indicates the presence of
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(A)
copper
10
The three most important physical factors that influence rock weathering are
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(B)
particle size,hardness and degree of cementation
11
Which of the following statement is not true about waterlogged soils?
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(B)
dentrifying bacteria are more active in such soil than nitrifying bacteria
12
Which of the following crops should be planted on a piece of land that has been repeatedly cropped with maize?
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(D)
cowpea
13
sources of nitrogen to the soil include the following except
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(D)
residues of burning activities
14
Which of the following statements about bush burning is false?
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(D)
the heat generated increases the population of soil organisms
15
A farmer applied NPK 15:11:8 at planting. What is the percentage of potassium in the fertilizer?
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(A)
23.53%
16
The following equipment can be used for irrigation except
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(D)
siphon tube
17
Excessive drainage of soil water can be checked by the addition of adequate quantities of
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(D)
compost manure
18
Considering all costs, the cheapest source of energy for domestic use is
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(B)
sunlight
19
The implement used for pulverizing the soil is the
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(C)
horrow
20
An incubator is important in supplying
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(B)
heat for embryo develoment
21
A farm surveying equipment made of steel and used for measuring short distance is called
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(C)
gunter's chain
22
Which of the following statement about farmstead planning is false?
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(A)
administartive blocks should not be located close to the entrance of the farmstead
23
The term supplying in crop production means
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(C)
replacing ungerminated seeds on seedbeds
24
During photosynthesis, green plants convert carbon dioxide to
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(B)
carbohydrate
25
Perboiling in the processing of rice
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(C)
reduces the percentage of breakage
26
The main reason for removing the barks of cassava tubers before processing the tuber is to
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(D)
reduce the cyanide content of products
27
Tomato plants are staked for the following reasons except to
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(D)
improve the taste
28
A vegetatively propagated citrus plant will produce fruits earlier than the one established from seeds because
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(C)
it is more advanced at the time of establishment
29
swollen shoot disease of cocoa is caused by
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(A)
virus
30
Groundnut grows best on a
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(A)
well-drained,light sandy-loam soil
31
Which of the following characteristics is not true of a good pasture crop?
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(D)
poor digestibility
32
The benefits of establishing forests do not include
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(D)
shading of crops
33
Floriculture is a subdivision of horticulture which deals with the cultivation of
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(C)
ornamental plants
34
Which of the following insect pests causes defoliation in crops?
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(B)
grasshopper
35
Which of the following pesticides effectively control maize stem borers?
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(A)
systematic insecticides
36
Which of the following combinations of practices best controls groundnut rosette disease?
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(D)
early planting and spraying of insecticide
37
Determine the number of bottles of a herbicide required to spray 25 hectares of farmland, if one bottle is needed to prepare 100 litres and the diluted product product is applied at a rate of 20 litres per hectare.
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(B)
5 bottles
38
The milk secreting organ in cattle is the
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(B)
udder
39
A developing embryo derives its nutrition from the mother
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(A)
through the blood vessels located in the placenta
40
Birds store food in the
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(A)
crop
41
The following are examples of natural mating methods except
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(D)
block mating
42
The milk collection vessel of the mammary gland is the
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(B)
gland cistern
43
Fertile eggs will be produced by breeders if the
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(B)
cocks are always kept with the hens
44
The rabbit is able to utilize forage because
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(A)
it has an enlarged caecum that digests fibre
45
If feed efficiency for egg production is defined as feed consumed per 10 eggs, what will be the feed efficiency for a layer that laid 230 eggs and consumed 26kg feed?
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(B)
1.13
46
When birds are fed on a ratio deficient in riboflavin,which of the following symptoms will they show?
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(C)
curled-toe paralysis
47
Livestock are said to feed on the range when they eat
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(B)
fresh herbage directly from the pasture
48
Which of the following practices is not a method of improving rangeland?
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(C)
removal of weeds
49
Liverfluke infestation causes disturbance in lipid digestion because it
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(B)
blocks the bile duct and reduces secretion of bile
50
A farmer noticed that one of his cows has high fever, blood-stained diarrhoea and often grinds its teeth. This shows that the cow is infected by
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(A)
rinderpest
51
Temperature is an important factor in fish ponds because it
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(A)
affects the metabolic processes in fish
52
An illegal method of harvesting fish is by the sue of
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(B)
potassium cyanide
53
How can the offspring of a bull continue to be produced long after its death?
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(A)
using the preserved semen for artificial insemination
54
A farm business makes profit when
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(C)
total revenue exceed total cost
55
Agricultural business is difficult to insure in West Africa mainly because
