Year : 
2003
Title : 
Agricultural Science
Exam : 
WASSCE/WAEC MAY/JUNE

Paper 1 | Objectives

21 - 30 of 57 Questions

# Question Ans
21.

Which of the following parts is common to both the disc and mouldboard plough?

A. ploughshare

B. landslide

C. coulter

D. beam

D

22.

Which of the following farm implements is not hand operated?

A. garden shears

B. ridgers

C. cutlasses

D. secateurs

B

23.

Primary tillage equipment performs the following functions except

A. turning over and inverting the top soil

B. burying weeds and trash

C. preparing ridges for planting

D. preparing the soil foe secondary tillage

C

24.

Which of the following is a method of conducting a simple farm layout survey?

A. 5:4:3

B. 4:3:3

C. 3:4:5

D. 3:3:4

C

25.

Which of the following activities does not clearly describe the art of mechanization?

A. using milking machins on dairy animals

B. clearing land with a cutlass

C. harvesting maize with a harvester

D. using a tractor to apply herbicides

B

26.

An example of grain legume is

A. pigeon

B. maize

C. sorghum

D. millet

A

27.

Cassava is mainly propagated by

A. seedlings

B. layering

C. budding

D. cuttings

D

28.

Which of the following groups of crops requires a nursery?

A. cotton,sorghum and tomato

B. oil palm,cocoa and tomato

C. cocoa,maize and rice

D. banana,coffee and tomato

B

29.

To which of the following crops does the term 'ginning' apply?

A. kenaf

B. cocoa

C. groundnut

D. cotton

D

30.

The scientific name for guinea grass is

A. panicum maximum

B. imperata cylindrica

C. cynodon dactylon

D. andropogon gayanus

A

21.

Which of the following parts is common to both the disc and mouldboard plough?

A. ploughshare

B. landslide

C. coulter

D. beam

D

22.

Which of the following farm implements is not hand operated?

A. garden shears

B. ridgers

C. cutlasses

D. secateurs

B

23.

Primary tillage equipment performs the following functions except

A. turning over and inverting the top soil

B. burying weeds and trash

C. preparing ridges for planting

D. preparing the soil foe secondary tillage

C

24.

Which of the following is a method of conducting a simple farm layout survey?

A. 5:4:3

B. 4:3:3

C. 3:4:5

D. 3:3:4

C

25.

Which of the following activities does not clearly describe the art of mechanization?

A. using milking machins on dairy animals

B. clearing land with a cutlass

C. harvesting maize with a harvester

D. using a tractor to apply herbicides

B

26.

An example of grain legume is

A. pigeon

B. maize

C. sorghum

D. millet

A

27.

Cassava is mainly propagated by

A. seedlings

B. layering

C. budding

D. cuttings

D

28.

Which of the following groups of crops requires a nursery?

A. cotton,sorghum and tomato

B. oil palm,cocoa and tomato

C. cocoa,maize and rice

D. banana,coffee and tomato

B

29.

To which of the following crops does the term 'ginning' apply?

A. kenaf

B. cocoa

C. groundnut

D. cotton

D

30.

The scientific name for guinea grass is

A. panicum maximum

B. imperata cylindrica

C. cynodon dactylon

D. andropogon gayanus

A