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