A footbath on a poultry farm contains
- A. herbicides
- B. antiseptics
- C. antibiotics
- D. disinfectants
The common name for Andropogon gayanus is
- A. Elephant grass
- B. Northern gamba grass
- C. Guinea grass
- D. Giant star gass
Fowls is are debeaked in order to
- A. reduce feed intake
- B. make them grow faster
- C. reduce cannibatlism
- D. vitamin A
Pigs wallow in muddy pools of water primarily to
- A. ensure adequate exercise
- B. obtain forage materials
- C. dislodge ectoparasite from their body
- D. lower their body temperature
The main objective of flushing in animal production is to
- A. promote muscle development
- B. make parturition easier
- C. promote multiple births
- D. make the animal lose weight
Control average gestation period in rabbits is
- A. 21 days
- B. 26 days
- C. 31 days
- D. 36 day
The correct sequence of the passage of feed through the digestive system of a ruminant is
- A. reticulum → omasum → abomasum → rumen
- B. rumen → omasum → abomasum → reticulum
- C. omasum → abomasum → rumen → reticulum
- D. rumen → reticulum → omasum → abomasum
Control of maize stem borer is most effective when
- A. affected crops are uprooted and burnt
- B. rodenticides are applied
- C. nematicides are applied
- D. fertilizers are applied before planting
The average gestation period in rabbits is
- A. 21 days
- B. 26 days
- C. 31 days
- D. 36 days
Control of maize stem borer is most effective when
- A. affected crops are uprooted and burnt
- B. rodenticides are applied
- C. nematicides are applied
- D. ferilizers are applied before planting
Weeds which produce large hollow seeds would most likely be dispersed by
- A. wind
- B. water
- C. insect
- D. explosion
Cultural control of crop diseases involves the following practices except
- A. practising crop rotation
- B. planting disease resistant varieties
- C. using insecticides
- D. fallowing of farmland
An example of fungal disease of stored grain is
- A. mould
- B. streak
- C. mosaic
- D. damping off
Causal organismss of diseases in crop production do not include
- A. viruses
- B. bacteria
- C. fungi
- D. protozoa
Calculate the amount of maize seeds required by a farmer to cultivate 5 hectares of farmland at the recommended seed rate of 25kg/hectare
- A. 50kg
- B. 75kg
- C. 100kg
- D. 125kg
The offspring which will result from a cross between heterozygous and homozygous dominant plants will be
- A. 100% heterozygous
- B. 70% heterozygous
- C. 50%heterozygous
- D. 20%heterozygous
A farm produce which does not require fermentation during processing is
- A. cocoa beans
- B. coffee beans
- C. cassava tubers
- D. rice grains
Which of the following statements about budding is not true? The resulting crops
- A. can withstand adverse climatic conditions
- B. flower and bear fruit early
- C. develop broader leaves for photosynthesis
- D. are more disease resistant
The following plants are forage grasses except
- A. Pennisetun purpureum
- B. Panicum maximum
- C. Axonopus compressus
- D. Calopogonium mucunoides
Theobroma cacao grows best in the
- A. sudan savannah zone
- B. humid rain forest zone
- C. mangrove swamp forest zone
- D. northern guinea savannah zone
A bag of fertilizer has a ratio of 10:0 written on it. This means that the fertilizer is a
- A. lime fertilizer
- B. nitrogenous fertilizer
- C. phosphate fertilizer
- D. potassium fertilizer