Agriculture Past Questions And Answers
The following are important management practices in the husbandry of piglets except
- A. castration of male piglets not neded for breeding
- B. administration of drugs containing iron piglets
- C. provision of grass beddings for piglets
- D. cutting of the needle-teeth piglets
Post-harvest equipment include
- A. sheller and dryer
- B. groundnut lifter and thresher
- C. combine and forage harvesters
- D. sheller and combine harvester
Which of the following pairs of farming systems uses bush fallowing?
- A. crop rotation and land rotation
- B. shifting cultivation and land rotation
- C. land rotation and mixed farming
- D. crop rotation and monoculture
A socio-economic factor which affects the availability of land for agricultural use in West Africa is
- A. soil type
- B. population growth
- C. rainfall distribution
- D. working capital
Which of the following sources of farm power is most verstile in West Africa?
- A. Biogas
- B. Animal
- C. Wind
- D. Water
Discuss each of rinderpest and Newcastle diseases under the following headings (i0 host organism (2 marks) (ii) Casual organsim (2 marks) (iii) Mode of transmission (4 marks) (iv) Symptoms (4 marks) (v) Control (4 marks)
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2003 THEORYWhich one of these is not an advantage of Newspaper as agricultural extension teaching methods?
- A. It is restricted to only few literate farmer
- B. The pictures they often carry serves as useful teaching aids
- C. They are less expensive
- D. They can also be used in areas where there is no electricity
Oil palm trees do well in soils with pH level of
- A. 2.5 - 3.5
- B. 3.5 - 4.5
- C. 5.5 - 6.5
- D. 6.5 - 7.5
Newcastle disease is viral diseases that affect which animals?
- A. Poultry birds
- B. Cattle
- C. Goat
- D. Fish
Crop rotation is often used in maintaining soil fertility because
- A. all crops grown, add nutrient to the soil
- B. some of the crops fix nitrogen in the soil
- C. crops grown are ploughed into the soil
- D. the crops are rotated on different farmlands