To which of the following crops does the term ‘ginning’ apply?
- A. kenaf
- B. cocoa
- C. groundnut
- D. cotton
Which of the following groups of crops requires a nursery?
- A. cotton,sorghum and tomato
- B. oil palm, cocoa and tomato
- C. cocoa, maize and rice
- D. banana, coffee and tomato
Cassava is mainly propagated by
- A. seedlings
- B. layering
- C. budding
- D. cuttings
What is the main use of a gunter’s chain?
- A. taking measurement of distance
- B. determining the depth of soil moisture
- C. calculating the slope of the land
- D. restraining bulls
The most efficient irrigation method on large scale farms involve the use of
- A. overhead irrigation facilities
- B. flooding system
- C. underground porous pipes
- D. shadoof system
Which of the following sources of farm power is most flexible and adaptable to farm operations?
- A. animal power
- B. wind power
- C. human power
- D. solar power
Farm surveying can be defined as the
- A. leveling of land during road construction
- B. sighting of structures through a theodolite
- C. making measurements on land from which maps are drawn
- D. estimation of the type and properties of soil on a farm
Which of the following is not a source of farm power?
- A. wind
- B. bull
- C. tractor
- D. plough
Marketing processes do not include
- A. production
- B. assembling
- C. distribution
- D. processing
Given a normal situation, what effect will an increase in the supply of cowpea have on its market price? The price
- A. increases
- B. decreases
- C. is unaffected
- D. is unpredictable
Artificial scarcity of agricultural produce is often caused by the following marketing agents except
- A. farmers
- B. wholesalers
- C. middlemen
- D. co-operatives
The quantity of rice that a consumer is willing and able to buy during a given period is simply the consumer’s
- A. demand for rice
- B. elastic limit
- C. supply of rice
- D. preference for rice
Capital in agriculture includes the following item except
- A. tree crops
- B. livestock
- C. labour
- D. machinery
Agricultural uses of land include
- A. silviculture
- B. mining
- C. housing
- D. transportation
Government agricultural policies include the following except
- A. increasing the production of food crops and animals
- B. increasing the efficiency of production of export crops
- C. supplying raw materials for use in local industries
- D. increasing the number of peasant farmers
The recommended agricultural practice in farm settlement scheme is
- A. poultry farming
- B. continuous cropping
- C. mixed farming
- D. cash crop production
In subsistence agriculture,
- A. yields are usually high
- B. surplus produced is small
- C. savings are made
- D. farm sizes are large
The primary role of agriculture is the provision of
- A. foreign exchange earnings
- B. raw materials for industries
- C. food for man and his animals
- D. employment and income for farmers
From the curve above, at what point is it advisable for the farmer to stop further addition of input?
- A. I
- B. II
- C. III
- D. IV
Study the diagram above and answer question
The farm tool associated with the diagram above is
- A. Knife
- B. Secateurs
- C. Shears
- D. Cutlass