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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) Post-harvest
B) Planting
C) Harvest
D) Pre-harvest
  • 3. Which crop is commonly harvested by pulling?
A) Cocoa
B) Orange
C) Mango
D) Onion
  • 4. Digging fork is mainly used for harvesting ______
A) Root crops
B) Flowers
C) Fruits
D) Leaves
  • 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) Flowering
C) Germination
D) Maturity
  • 7. Which of these is a mechanical harvesting machine?
A) Knife
B) Cutlass
C) Harvester
D) Hoe
  • 8. Post-harvest activities include all except ______
A) Planting
B) Sorting
C) Storage
D) Packaging
  • 9. Cassava mosaic disease is caused by
A) virus
B) fungi
C) bacteria
D) nematode
  • 10. Tiny worms that attack plant roots are known as
A) bacteria
B) insect
C) fungi
D) nematodes
  • 11. Crop rotation helps to
A) increase pesticides
B) destroy crops
C) spread diseases
D) prevent diseases
  • 12. Which of the following records shows daily farm activities?
A) Farm diary
B) Credit record
C) Hometory record
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) reduce productivity
C) A and C
D) Encourage farming
  • 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) reduce farm size
B) Farmer's popularity
C) help in loan application
D) make farming difficult
  • 17. Crop rotation, timely planting, proper spacing of crops, hand weeding are examples of ___
A) Chemical method of weed control
B) Biological method of weed control
C) Cultural method of weed control
D) Mechanical method of weed control
  • 18. ___ are unwanted plants that grow among cultivated crops
A) Pruning
B) Staking
C) Thinning
D) Weed
  • 19. Black pod disease is a disease associated with ___
A) Cashew
B) Yam
C) A & B
D) Cocoa
  • 20. the following are ways of preventing crop diseases except__
A) crop rotation
B) Application of fungicide and bactericide
C) Planting disease resistant varieties
D) Proper spacing of crops
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