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