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Determine the number of bottles of a herbicide required to spray 25 hectares of farmland, if one bottle is needed to prepare 100 litres and the diluted product product is applied at a rate of 20 litres per hectare.
A2 bottles
B5 bottles
C8 bottles
D11 bottles
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Question 13
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Which of the following combinations of practices best controls groundnut rosette disease?
Alate planting and spraying of insecticide
Bearly planting and spraying of nematicide
Clate planting and spraying of fungicide
Dearly planting and spraying of insecticide
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Question 14
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Which of the following pesticides effectively control maize stem borers?
Asystematic insecticides
Bcontact poisons
Cnematicides
Dfumigants
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Question 15
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Which of the following insect pests causes defoliation in crops?
Amirid
Bgrasshopper
Cweevil
Daphid
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Question 16
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Floriculture is a subdivision of horticulture which deals with the cultivation of
Afruit crops
Bvegetables
Cornamental plants
Dspices
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Question 17
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The benefits of establishing forests do not include
Aderivation of medicine
Bprovision of food
Cimprovement of micro-climate
Dshading of crops
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Question 18
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Which of the following characteristics is not true of a good pasture crop?
Ahigh palatability
Bhigh nutritive value
Cresistance to trampling
Dpoor digestibility
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Question 19
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Groundnut grows best on a
Awell-drained,light sandy-loam soil
Bwell-drained,clayey friable soil
Cswampy,sandy-clay soil
Dwell-drained,clayey-loam soil
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Question 20
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swollen shoot disease of cocoa is caused by
Avirus
Bfungus
Cbacteria
Dnematode
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Question 21
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A vegetatively propagated citrus plant will produce fruits earlier than the one established from seeds because
Ait would not suffer from gummosis disease
Binsect pests do not attack it
Cit is more advanced at the time of establishment
Dthe flowers are wind pollinated
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Question 22
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Tomato plants are staked for the following reasons except to
Aproduce clean fruits
Breduce pest damage to fruits
Cincrease the yield
Dimprove the taste
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Question 23
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The main reason for removing the barks of cassava tubers before processing the tuber is to
Areduce the water content
Bimprove the protein content of products
Cimprove the shelf life of products
Dreduce the cyanide content of products
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Question 24
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Perboiling in the processing of rice
Aimproves its digestibility
Bincreaese grain mass
Creduces the percentage of breakage
Dfacilitates the polishing of rice
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Question 25
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During photosynthesis, green plants convert carbon dioxide to
Achlorophyll
Bcarbohydrate
Cprotein
Dcarbonic acid
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Question 26
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The term supplying in crop production means
Apruning excess branches of crops
Bspacing out crops during planting
Creplacing ungerminated seeds on seedbeds
Dadding enough fertilizer to the crop
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Question 27
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Which of the following statement about farmstead planning is false?
Aadministartive blocks should not be located close to the entrance of the farmstead
Bwaste disposal unit should be located far away from the main farm area
Call buildings should be well ventilated with good lightings
Danimal pens should not be located too close to the worker's house
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Question 28
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A farm surveying equipment made of steel and used for measuring short distance is called
Aprismatic compass
Bmeasuring tape
Cgunter's chain
Dtheodolite
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Question 29
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An incubator is important in supplying
Aheat for day-old chicks
Bheat for embryo develoment
Clight for cadling eggs
Dfeed to chicks
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Question 30
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The implement used for pulverizing the soil is the
