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