SS 3 AGRIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) HomeWAEC/NECO Exam Past QuestionsSS 3 AGRIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) 0% 0 votes, 0 avg 6 SSCE/NECO/GCE (AGRIC. SCIENCE) AGRIC. SCIENCE PAST QUESTIONS SSCE (APP) These are Agric Science Past Questions. Questions will be picked at random from the question bank. You can use the NEXT button to move to the next question, use the PREV button to move to the previous question, the CLEAR button to clear any answer of your choice and you have the FINISH button to end the exam if you choose to. Any question not answered before the end of the exam time, will be marked as wrong and the exam will end by itself. so try to attempt all questions on time. Goodluck! 1 / 50 The functions of a farm manager include the following except financing agricultural projects decision making coordination of farm activities supervision of farm labourers 2 / 50 Newcastle disease attacks ruminant poultry pigs horses 3 / 50 Which of the following soil water is tightly held to the surface of soil particles? capillary gravitational water hygroscopic water superfluous water 4 / 50 Irrigation water is passed underneath the soil through canals pipes sprinklers drips 5 / 50 Liming is used to correct soil’s acidity porosity caution exchange capacity neutrality 6 / 50 The primary role of agriculture is the provision of foreign exchange earnings raw materials for industries food for man and his animals employment and income for farmers. 7 / 50 Agriculture helps to solve all the following problems except high population growth rate unemployment inadequate shelter materials malnutrition 8 / 50 The process of removing a young animal from its mother is referred to as wearing isolation culling breeding 9 / 50 Pennisetum purpurem is the botanical name for carpet grass elephanat grass bahama grass gamba grass 10 / 50 Which of the following is a function of the hopper of a gain sheller? separating chaff from the grains rubbing cobs against one another receiving maize cobs to be shelled drying shelled maize grains 11 / 50 Government laws and reforms are aimed at increasing agricultural production encouraging importation of agricultural produces. discouraging investment in agriculture controlling farm profits 12 / 50 When a change in price brings no change in demand, the situation is described as fairly inelastic perfectly elastic fairly elastic perfectly inelastic 13 / 50 The practice of cutting only matured forest trees and allowing other young ones to grow is known as deforestation selective exploitation regeneration afforestation 14 / 50 The primary purpose of establishing wild life reserve is to prevent wild animals from predating conserve animals for hunting prevent extinction of wild animals provide constant supply of meat for export 15 / 50 Mastitis is a disease which affects the dewlap hump udder scrotum 16 / 50 A physical factor affecting crop production is man microorganism temperature vegetation 17 / 50 The major advantage of human power over all other sources of power is man’s intelligence to control work ability to work on any climatic condition strength when at work normal power output of 75 waits per day 18 / 50 Which of the following is not a principle of crop rotation? deep-rooted crops should be followed by shallow rooted crops crops that can be attacked by the same pest should not follow each other a period of fallow must be provided in the course of the rotation a leguminous crop should be included in the system 19 / 50 An adult female goat is a/an doe gilt heifer ewe 20 / 50 Pasture crops are best used in preparing hay just after seed maturation just before flowing after they have started to dry up when they are two weeks old 21 / 50 The maturity period of groundnut in months is 4 – 5 2 – 3 1 – 2 6 – 7 22 / 50 One factor which differentiates a subsistence from a commercial farmer is that the former produces for the benefit of his community for the benefit of his family raw materials for agro-based industries only one type of crop 23 / 50 The recommended agricultural practice in farm settlement scheme is poultry farming mixed farming cash crop production continuous cropping 24 / 50 The best method of introducing a new pesticide to rural farmers is through farmer’s co-operatives demonstration circular letters field trips 25 / 50 Given a normal situation, what effect will an increase in the supply of cowpea have on its market price? The price is unaffected increase decreases is unpredictable 26 / 50 Which of the following parts is common to both the disc and mould board plough? land slide plough share beam coulter 27 / 50 The part of the digestive tract of birds which secrete gastric juice is the proventriculus oesophagus crop gizzard 28 / 50 When soils are poorly drained they dry up easily the air content of the soil is reduced the rate of decomposition is accelerated they form hardpans 29 / 50 Which of the following statements is not true about weeds weeds may harbor crop diseases weeds reduce the nutritional value of a pasture all weeds are grasses some weeds are parasitic on crop plants 30 / 50 The most versatile source of farm power in West Africa is biogas animal water wind 31 / 50 The major advantage of inbreed in animals is that it reduces the numbers of mates needed in a hard eliminates undesirable traits increases multiple births increases hybrid vigour 32 / 50 Artificial scarcity of agricultural produce is often caused by the following marketing agents except middlemen co-operatives farmers wholesalers 33 / 50 Which of the following plant diseases is not caused by fungi? maize streak cassava leaf-spot maize rust rice blast 34 / 50 Rabbits are kept in cages called hutches crushes paddocks pens 35 / 50 The most in appropriate means of disseminating new ideas and techniques to the peasant farmer is by use of cinema radio internet television 36 / 50 Detailed survey for the site of a fish pond is necessary for the site of a fish pond is necessary for the following except site inspection location and depth of the spillway height of the dam determination of the depth of the pond 37 / 50 Which of the following soil characteristics is constant? mineral matter content moisture content texture structure 38 / 50 Which of the following occupation is not associated with agriculture? saw-milling production of honey fertilizer production production of polythens 39 / 50 Leguminous cover crops do not reduce the soil microbial population bind the soil particles together through their roots increase the nitrogen content of soils aid in improving the soil organic matter content 40 / 50 An accessory sex gland in a bull is pancreatic gland prostate gland thyroid gland pituitary gland 41 / 50 The rate of soil erosion is not affected by topographys leaching vegetation cover rainfall 42 / 50 An example of grain legume is maize millet pigeon pea sorghum 43 / 50 Smut diseases are often found on cowpea cassava maize grapes 44 / 50 Energy in fossil materials maybe harnessed as electricity energy fuel energy water energy wind energy 45 / 50 A variety of oil palm is amelonado trinitario tenera criollo 46 / 50 On a curve for the law of diminishing returns, maximum output is obtained at the apex of the curve middle of the curve end of the curve beginning of the curve 47 / 50 Parturition in the deo (rabbit) is referred to as kidding lambing farrowing kinding 48 / 50 Subsistence agriculture mainly involves food production using family labour food production on large scale farm mechanization of all farm operations high capital input on the farm enterprise 49 / 50 Which of the following sources of farm power will assist in the tillage of more land per unit time? animal wind machine man 50 / 50 Smut diseases of cereals is caused by nematode fungus protozoon bacterium Your score is LinkedIn Facebook VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Practice also: SS 3 DATA PROCESSING PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 COMMERCE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 CIVIC EDUCATION PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO)