Correct Answer: B. wholesalers and retailers

Correct Answer: A. sufficient food production

Explanation

One of the major reasons for investing in the agricultural sector is for sufficient food production that can cater for a population. A farmer's main goal is to produce a good crop and/or healthy animals in order to make a living and to feed the population. Farmers are responsible for all crops and livestock that are needed for us to survive.

Correct Answer: B. economic development

Explanation

In short, production possibility curve is a curve which shows all possible combinations of two goods that can be produced by making full use of given resources and technology in an economy. A production possibility curve measures the maximum output of two goods using a fixed amount of input. The input is any combination of the four factors ofproduction. ... Each point on the curve shows how much of each good will be produced when resources shift from making more of one good and less of the other.

Correct Answer: D. Inflation

Correct Answer: C. high cost of transporting finished goods

Correct Answer: D. Arrange the data in either ascending or descending order and find what item divides the set in two equal parts.

Explanation

To find the median, first order the numbers from smallest to largest. Then find the middle number. For example, the middle for this set of numbers is 5, because 5 is right in the middle: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9.

Correct Answer: C. roads

Explanation

Land, sometimes referred to as dry land, is the solid surface of Earth that is not permanently covered by water and is immovable

Correct Answer: B. devaluation

Correct Answer: C. public limited company

Explanation

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business enterprise where the government or state has significant control through full, majority, or significant minority ownership. Defining characteristics of SOEs are their distinct legal form and operation in commercial affairs and activities. When a state owned stocks are traded in the stock exchange, they become a public limited company.

Explanation

(a) Subsistence farming: This form focuses on growing food to feed one's family.

Commercial farming: This is concerned with the production of food crops and livestock on a large scale with the aim of making profits

(b) i. It is done on a small scale.

ii. Simple tools like hoe and cutlass are used

iii. Relies solely on the weather.

iv. Little or no pesticides are used.

v. It relies on family labour.

vi. Food crops are mainly Cultivated for home consumption and not for sale.

vii. Mixed farming and mixed cropping are practised

viii. Individual farmers are owners of the fam.

(c)Positive effects:

1. It is a source of foreign exchange.
2. It serves as employment.
3. It is a source of raw material for local industries
4. Government generates revenue in the form of royalties.
5. Contributes to infrastructural development
6. Contributes towards community development.
7. Source of energy as e.g. Coal.-
8. Avenue for transfer of technology.

ii. Negative effects:

• It leads to loss of farms land
• It leads to pollution of water bodies.
• It leads to the loss of lives when people fall into abandoned pits.
• It increases expenditure for the government in land reclamation.
• Able-bodied young men venture into it and abandon farming
• it destroys animals and tree species
• Contributes to corruption.
• It has led to the neglect of other sectors.
• Depletion t non-renewable resources