Mosaic disease affects
- A. cotton and cocoa
- B. groundnut and tomato
- C. cassava and tobacco
- D. mango and orange
Which of the following will not be a reason for afforestation?
- A. population pressure
- B. soil fertility conservation
- C. wildlife conservation
- D. prevention of natural hazard
Which of the following is not a leguminous forage crop?
- A. centrosema pubescens
- B. panicum maximum
- C. stylosanthes gracilis
- D. pueraria phaseoloides
To which of the following survey equipment is a piece of red cloth tied when it is being used?
- A. cross staff
- B. plumb bob
- C. gunter's chain
- D. arrow
Which of the following agronomic practices is not applicable to rice production?
- A. threshing
- B. transplanting
- C. staking
- D. puddling
A plant not normally used as green manure is
- A. mucuna utilis
- B. sida acuta
- C. centrosema pubescens
- D. pueraria phaseoloides
Which of the following sequence of pre-planting operation is correct?
- A. bush clearing, farm layout, burning and stumping
- B. stumping, bush clearing, farm layout and burning
- C. burning, farm layout, clearing and stumping
- D. bush clearing, burning, stumping and farm layout
Which of the following methods is used in conducting a simple farm lay-out survey?
- A. 5:3:4
- B. 4:3:3
- C. 3:4:5
- D. 3:3:4
Which of the following is not a survey equipment?
- A. cross staff
- B. prismatic compass
- C. offset poles
- D. telescope
Post-harvest equipment include
- A. sheller and dryer
- B. groundnut lifter and thresher
- C. combine and forage harvesters
- D. sheller and combine harvester
The function of the scraper on a disc plough is to
- A. scrape the top soil
- B. remove adhering soil from the disc
- C. open the furrow
- D. balance the plough
A spade is mainly used for
- A. weeding
- B. pruning
- C. planting
- D. digging
Which of the following sources of farm power generates highest amount of energy?
- A. human power
- B. wind power
- C. animal power
- D. mechanical power
A good drought bull should not have
- A. a deep barrel
- B. a slopy rump
- C. long legs
- D. strong hooves
Irrigation water is passed underneath the soil through
- A. sprinklers
- B. canals
- C. drips
- D. pipes
Which of the following farming practices encourages soil degradation?
- A. fertilizer application
- B. bush burning
- C. cover cropping
- D. fungicide application
A fertilizer bag had the following inscription 27:10:10. This means that it contained
- A. 27kg of nirogen, 10kg of phosphate, 10kg of potash
- B. 27kg of phosphate, 10kg of potash, 10kg of nitrogen
- C. 27kg of potash, 10kg of nitrogen, 10kg of phosphate
- D. 27kg of sulphate, 10kg of potash, 10kg of phosphate
The plant nutrient essential for the formation of tubers is
- A. molybdenum
- B. phosphorus
- C. potassium
- D. sodium
Although clayey soils are rich in nutrients, they are not good for most agricultural crop production because they
- A. do not release their nutrients
- B. are too compact and poorly aerated
- C. lose their nutrients too readily after rains
- D. contain too much iron,aluminium and boron
Soil erosion caused by water can be controlled by
- A. overgrazing and bush burning
- B. ploughing and harrowing
- C. land clearing and stumping
- D. afforestation and erection of bunds
The two main elements of climate which affect soil formation are
- A. rainfall and temperature
- B. rainfall and air
- C. temperature and light
- D. wind and relative hunidity