Agriculture Past Questions And Answers
1181
Quarantine regulations are established so as to
- A. allow the importation of diseased plant and animal materials
- B. prevent the introduction foreign diseases into country
- C. assist farmers to grow foreign crops
- D. facilitates the rapid spread of foreign diseases
1182
Methods of preserving fish including the following except
- A. drying
- B. smoking
- C. salting
- D. soaking
1183
Which of the following parts of plants are normally used for vegetative propagation?
- A. Fruit, leaf and root.
- B. Stem, root and leaf.
- C. Fruit, leaf and flower
- D. Leaf, flower and stem.
1184
Which of the following crops does not require nursery?
- A. lycopersicon esculentum
- B. abelmuscus esculentus
- C. theobroma cacao
- D. hevea braziliensis
1185
Elastic demand is the type in which a change in price
- A. brings about greater change in quantity of goods demanded
- B. of a commodity leads to little or no change in demand
- C. leads to equal change in commodity demanded
- D. may not change the demand of quantity of commodity.
1186
Rice bran is usually obtained from the paddy after
- A. winnowing and boiling
- B. threshing and winnowing
- C. parboiling and threshing
- D. milling and polishing
1187
The land tenure system which involves the outright purchase of land is
- A. leasehold
- B. communal
- C. freehold
- D. inheritance
1188
Which of the following statements is not correct about agriculture in most West African countries?
- A. employment
- B. fuel
- C. food
- D. income
1189
Which of the following diseases of crops is not caused by a fungus?
- A. panama disease of banana
- B. smut of rice
- C. mould of stored grain
- D. streak of maize
1190
Piglet anaemia can be controlled by using
- A. sulphur drugs
- B. iron drugs
- C. anthelmintics
- D. antibiotics