If the yield of cowpea is 750kg per hectare, calculate the yield of cowpea from a 20 hectare farm.

• A. 7,500kg
• B. 15,000kg
• C. 22,500kg
• D. 37,500kg

An area of land where fruit trees are grown is commonly called a/an

• A. plantation
• B. nursery
• C. green house
• D. orchad

Agricultural extension programme would succeed in disseminating new ideas to farmers except if the programme

• A. is based on research tested on local conditions
• B. involves the people for which the programme is planned
• C. involved only the support to highly trained agricultural extension specialist
• D. is not kept flexible to contemporary technology

Layer's ration contains more limestone than grower's ration because limestone

• A. is difficult for the growers to digest
• B. stimulates layer's appetite
• C. reduces the acidity in the gut if growers
• D. supplies sufficient minerals to layers for shell formation

Embryonic membranes do not include

• A. uterus
• B. chorion
• C. allantois
• D. amnion

If the spacing of maize is 0.9m by 0.3m and one seed is sown per stand, what will be the popullation of maize plants on a hectare of farmland?

• A. 74,074
• B. 54,000
• C. 37,037
• D. 27,000

Drainage types include the following except

• A. shadoof
• B. open
• C. channel
• D. surface

The replacement of traditional farming methods with modern methods is a step in agricultural

• A. expansion
• B. education
• C. development
• D. diversification

The easiest method of determining soil texture in the field is by

• A. moulding
• B. sieving
• C. sedimenting
• D. feeling

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