Agriculture Past Questions And Answers
A non-governmental organization involved in agricultural development in West Africa is
- A. Operation Feed the Nation
- B. River Basin Development Authority
- C. Agricultural Development Project
- D. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Which of the following factors affects the onset of flowering in crops?
- A. Atmospheric pressure
- B. Wind
- C. Day length
- D. Rainfall
One major difference between disc plough and disc Harrow is
- A. Disc plough is used to create wider ridges on the field than disc Harrow
- B. A disc plough can have up to 54 discs on it at once whereas a disc harrow can have up to 6 disc
- C. Disc plough is used to tilled the disc harrowed land
- D. The disc part of plough is notched while that of harrow is round
Which type of loan should a farmer obtain to start an oil palm plantation?
- A. short-term loan
- B. long-term loan
- C. non-institutional loan
- D. operational loan
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
The diagram below shows parts of a plough. Study it and answer this question. The part labelled I in the diagram is the
- A. hitch
- B. handle
- C. plough share
- D. mould board
Crop rotation decreases the incidence of pests by
- A. breaking life cycles of pests
- B. attracting pest predators
- C. sterilizing the soil
- D. maintaining soil fertility
An agricultural research organisation categorised farmers in village X according to the rate of adoption of new ideas and came up with the following: Innovators 10, Early adopters 15, Late adopters 70, Never adopters 25
(a) Calculate the percentage of early adopters and state the implication of this percentage on the extension system.
(b) Suggest four ways of encouraging the innovators.
(c) State four possible reasons for the high number of late adopters.
(d) State two merits of the print media as a channel for agricultural extension.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1999 THEORYa. Reasons why farm operations are important on(i) Prunning of cocoa trees(ii) parboiling of paddy rice
b. Ways of eradicating guinea grass in a farmland
c. uses of ornamental plants
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2021 THEORYArtificial colostrum can be prepared from mixing all the following materials except
- A. groundnut oil
- B. antibiotics
- C. milk
- D. egg