Which of the following benefits of agriculture is of least importance to the peasant farmer?

A. materials for shelter

B. employment

C. foreign exchange

D. income

Farmers who plant improved maize would harvest

A. pest-infested maize grains

B. a high yield of maize

C. plants with long stalks

D. maize cobs with scattered grains

Which of the following land tenure system allows the owner greatest freedom to dispose of the land as he wishes?

A. communal

B. free-hold

C. lease-hold

D. share-cropping

Which of the following is not a government agricultural programme?

A. Operation Feed the Nation

B. Agricultural Development Projects

C. Farm Settliment Schemes

D. West Africa Rice Development

The practice of planting one type of annual crop each season is referred to as

A. monoculture

B. continuous cropping

C. mono-cropping

D. horticulture

The most important use of land for agriculture production is

A. grazing paddocks

B. botanical gardens

C. game reserves

D. farmstead construction

Which of the following biotic factors are usually used to control cassava mealbugs?

A. parasites

B. predators

C. pests

D. pathogens

The following are types of sedimentary rocks except

A. granites

B. loimestone

C. sandstone

D. dolomite

A reddish coloured soil indicates the presence of

A. copper

B. sodium

C. iron

D. manganese

The three most important physical factors that influence rock weathering are

A. colour,particle size and hardness of rock

B. particle size,hardness and degree of cementation

C. hardness,degrss of cementation and colour

D. particle size, temperature and colour

Which of the following statement is not true about waterlogged soils?

A. such soils are heavily leached

B. dentrifying bacteria are more active in such soil than nitrifying bacteria

C. nitrosomonas yield bet in such soils

D. soil temperature is usually low

Which of the following crops should be planted on a piece of land that has been repeatedly cropped with maize?

A. guinea corn

B. millet

C. rice

D. cowpea