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HORTICULTURE SS1
  • 1. Mechanical harvesting is mostly used in ______
A) School gardens
B) Home gardens
C) Small backyard gardens
D) Large commercial farms
  • 2. Cleaning and grading of crops occur during ______
A) Pre-harvest
B) Post-harvest
C) Planting
D) Harvest
  • 3. Which crop is commonly harvested by pulling?
A) Mango
B) Orange
C) Onion
D) Cocoa
  • 4. Digging fork is mainly used for harvesting ______
A) Flowers
B) Leaves
C) Fruits
D) Root crops
  • 5. One advantage of manual harvesting is ______
A) Allows selection of ripe crops
B) Expensive
C) Requires machines
D) Causes damage
  • 6. Harvesting should be done when crops reach ______
A) Seed stage
B) Maturity
C) Flowering
D) Germination
  • 7. Which of these is a mechanical harvesting machine?
A) Cutlass
B) Hoe
C) Knife
D) Harvester
  • 8. Post-harvest activities include all except ______
A) Packaging
B) Storage
C) Planting
D) Sorting
  • 9. Cassava mosaic disease is caused by
A) fungi
B) nematode
C) bacteria
D) virus
  • 10. Tiny worms that attack plant roots are known as
A) nematodes
B) bacteria
C) insect
D) fungi
  • 11. Crop rotation helps to
A) prevent diseases
B) increase pesticides
C) spread diseases
D) destroy crops
  • 12. Which of the following records shows daily farm activities?
A) Farm diary
B) Book keeping record
C) Hometory record
D) Credit record
  • 13. Farm records help farmers to
A) plan future operations
B) forget past activities
C) A and B
D) avoid harvesting
  • 14. Farm records are important because they
A) improve efficiency
B) Encourage farming
C) reduce productivity
D) A and C
  • 15. The use of natural enemies to control pest is called__
A) Cultural method of pest control
B) Chemical method of pest control
C) Mechanical method of pest control
D) Biological method of pest control
  • 16. One major importance of farm records is that they
A) make farming difficult
B) Farmer's popularity
C) reduce farm size
D) help in loan application
  • 17. Crop rotation, timely planting, proper spacing of crops, hand weeding are examples of ___
A) Cultural method of weed control
B) Biological method of weed control
C) Chemical method of weed control
D) Mechanical method of weed control
  • 18. ___ are unwanted plants that grow among cultivated crops
A) Pruning
B) Staking
C) Weed
D) Thinning
  • 19. Black pod disease is a disease associated with ___
A) Cocoa
B) Cashew
C) A & B
D) Yam
  • 20. the following are ways of preventing crop diseases except__
A) Planting disease resistant varieties
B) crop rotation
C) Proper spacing of crops
D) Application of fungicide and bactericide
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