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HORTICULTURE SS1
Contributed by: Onosue
  • 1. Mechanical harvesting is mostly used in ______
A) Small backyard gardens
B) Large commercial farms
C) Home gardens
D) School gardens
  • 2. Cleaning and grading of crops occur during ______
A) Pre-harvest
B) Planting
C) 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) Flowers
C) Root crops
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) Seed stage
B) Flowering
C) Germination
D) Maturity
  • 7. Which of these is a mechanical harvesting machine?
A) Knife
B) Hoe
C) Harvester
D) Cutlass
  • 8. Post-harvest activities include all except ______
A) Storage
B) Sorting
C) Packaging
D) Planting
  • 9. Cassava mosaic disease is caused by
A) bacteria
B) virus
C) nematode
D) fungi
  • 10. Tiny worms that attack plant roots are known as
A) nematodes
B) bacteria
C) insect
D) fungi
  • 11. Crop rotation helps to
A) spread diseases
B) increase pesticides
C) destroy crops
D) prevent diseases
  • 12. Which of the following records shows daily farm activities?
A) Farm diary
B) Book keeping record
C) Hometory record
D) Credit record
  • 13. Farm records help farmers to
A) A and B
B) plan future operations
C) avoid harvesting
D) forget past activities
  • 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) Biological method of pest control
B) Cultural method of pest control
C) Mechanical method of pest control
D) Chemical method of pest control
  • 16. One major importance of farm records is that they
A) Farmer's popularity
B) make farming difficult
C) help in loan application
D) reduce farm size
  • 17. Crop rotation, timely planting, proper spacing of crops, hand weeding are examples of ___
A) Biological method of weed control
B) Mechanical 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) Staking
B) Pruning
C) Thinning
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) Application of fungicide and bactericide
B) Planting disease resistant varieties
C) Proper spacing of crops
D) crop rotation
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