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
An example of grain legume is
- A. pigeon
- B. maize
- C. sorghum
- D. millet
Which of the following activities does not clearly describe the art of mechanization?
- A. using milking machins on dairy animals
- B. clearing land with a cutlass
- C. harvesting maize with a harvester
- D. using a tractor to apply herbicides
Which of the following is a method of conducting a simple farm layout survey?
- A. 5:4:3
- B. 4:3:3
- C. 3:4:5
- D. 3:3:4
Primary tillage equipment performs the following functions except
- A. turning over and inverting the top soil
- B. burying weeds and trash
- C. preparing ridges for planting
- D. preparing the soil foe secondary tillage
Which of the following farm implements is not hand operated?
- A. garden shears
- B. ridgers
- C. cutlasses
- D. secateurs
Which of the following parts is common to both the disc and mouldboard plough?
- A. ploughshare
- B. landslide
- C. coulter
- D. beam
The main reason why the disc plough is preferred over the mouldboard plough for use in heavy soils is that
- A. the scraper removes any adhering mud
- B. it is lighter and so gets stuck easily
- C. its frame is made of stainles steel
- D. it buries weeds mor effectively
What is the main use of a gunter’s cabin?
- A. taking measurement of distance
- B. determining the depth of soil moisture
- C. calculating the slope of the land
- D. restraining bulls
The farm machinery that does not have the heat engine is
- A. tractor
- B. bulldozer
- C. mower
- D. combin drill
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 is not a principal of crop rotation?
- A. deep-rooted crops should be followed by shallow rooted crops
- B. a period of fallow must be provided in the cours of the rotation
- C. a leguminous crop should be included in the system
- D. crops that can be attacked by the same pest should not follow each other
Nitrogen deficiency in plants can lead to the following except
- A. stunted growth
- B. excessive growth
- C. lower protein content of crop products
- D. general yellowing of leaves
Nitrogen may be lost from the soil through the following processes except
- A. crop removal
- B. soil erosion
- C. leaching
- D. irrigation
What is the percentage water content of a soil sample which weighed 180g when fresh and 120g when oven dried?
- A. 66.7%
- B. 60.0%
- C. 15.0%
- D. 33.3%
A soil with low pH value can be improved by the addition of
- A. ammonium sulphate
- B. calcium carbonate
- C. sodium chloride
- D. sodium nitrate
Which of the following soil properties cannot be easily altered?
- A. structure
- B. consistency
- C. texture
- D. fertility
The rate of soil erosion is not affected by
- A. vegetation cover
- B. leaching
- C. rainfall
- D. topography
Which of the following is not a factor of soil formation?
- A. topography
- B. land conservation
- C. parent material
- D. climate