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HORTICULTURE SS1
Contributed by: Onosue
  • 1. Mechanical harvesting is mostly used in ______
A) Home gardens
B) School gardens
C) Large commercial farms
D) Small backyard gardens
  • 2. Cleaning and grading of crops occur during ______
A) Planting
B) Pre-harvest
C) Post-harvest
D) Harvest
  • 3. Which crop is commonly harvested by pulling?
A) Mango
B) Orange
C) Onion
D) Cocoa
  • 4. Digging fork is mainly used for harvesting ______
A) Leaves
B) Root crops
C) Flowers
D) Fruits
  • 5. One advantage of manual harvesting is ______
A) Allows selection of ripe crops
B) Expensive
C) Causes damage
D) Requires machines
  • 6. Harvesting should be done when crops reach ______
A) Maturity
B) Seed stage
C) Germination
D) Flowering
  • 7. Which of these is a mechanical harvesting machine?
A) Harvester
B) Knife
C) Hoe
D) Cutlass
  • 8. Post-harvest activities include all except ______
A) Storage
B) Planting
C) Sorting
D) Packaging
  • 9. Cassava mosaic disease is caused by
A) nematode
B) fungi
C) virus
D) bacteria
  • 10. Tiny worms that attack plant roots are known as
A) nematodes
B) bacteria
C) fungi
D) insect
  • 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) Book keeping record
B) Credit record
C) Farm diary
D) Hometory record
  • 13. Farm records help farmers to
A) A and B
B) avoid harvesting
C) plan future operations
D) forget past activities
  • 14. Farm records are important because they
A) Encourage farming
B) A and C
C) improve efficiency
D) reduce productivity
  • 15. The use of natural enemies to control pest is called__
A) Mechanical method of pest control
B) Chemical method of pest control
C) Biological 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) help in loan application
C) Farmer's popularity
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) Mechanical method of weed control
C) Biological method of weed control
D) Chemical 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) A & B
B) Cashew
C) Cocoa
D) Yam
  • 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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