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Which of the following practices promote agricultural development?
A growing disease-resistant crops
B planting late-maturing crop varieties
C banning importation of pesticides
D encouraging communal land tenure system
The main reason for establishing game reserves is to prevent wildlife from
A being poached
B being hunted periodcally
C attacking tourists
D becoming extinct
Which of the following is not a role of government in agricultural production?
A provision of labour
B provision of subsidies
C building of storage facilities
D provision of loans and credits
The most common grazing system in West Africa is
A continuous grazing
B strip grazing
C rotational grazing
D zero grazing
The development of agriculture in West Africa is not generally affected by
A ignorance
B religious beliefs
C poor marketing
D population size
Which of the following land tenure system for individual ownership?
A land pledge system
B freehold system
C leasehold system
D tenancy at the will of government
The method of disseminating new farming techniques to farmers include the following except
A result demonstration
B use of radio
C use of television
D organising symposia
Farm gate price is the price at which
A produce are sold to the government
B produce are sold in the market
C producers sell to the middlemen
D marketing boards sell to the consumers
How would an individual proposing to start a farm obtain estimates of yield, prices and cost needed in preparing a budget?
A from his past experience
B by trial and error
C from agricultural officers or local farmers
D from books written about overseas farms
The law of diminishing returns helps in
A determining the proportion of production factors to combine
B determining the qualities of fixed resources to use in production
C indicating economic wages to pay farm workers
D indicating the quantity of fixed factors to employ
Demand is said to be elastic when a percentage change in price
A results in an infinite change in demand
B results in an increase in quantity demanded
C results in an exact change in demand
D is less than one
The most important input contributed by farm family is
A money
B implements
C labour
D fertilizer
The mechanical introduction of semen into the vagina of a female animal is termed
A back-crossing
B pen mating
C artificial insemination
D inbreeding
Which of the following statement about a good fish pond is true?
A it must have loa ph
B the water must be turbid
C it must have low concentration of dissolved salts
D the level of dissolved oxygen must be low
The major cause of spoilage in fresh fish is
A high humidity
B gungal attack
C low moisture content
D bacterial attack
Poultry showing difficulty in breathing and loss of appetite are under the attack of
A coccidiosis
B aspergillosis
C foot and mouth disease
D brucellosis
Disease of animals that can also be transferred to humans are
A nutritional
B physiological
C zoonotic
D parasitic
The following are common grasses in the rangeland except
A panicum maximum
B calopogonium mucunoides
C cynodon dactylon
D imperate cylindrical
If a soyabean meal contains 45% crude protein, what quantity of it should be provided to laying flock to supply 5.00 kg of protein?
A 11.11 kg
B 9.09 kg
C 2.75 kg
D 2.25 kg
The ingredient which is not a major source of minerals in animal feeds is
A oyster shell
B fish meal
C bone meal
D palm kernal meal
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