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