Agricultural-Science Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Agricultural science studies farming practices, including soil cultivation for growing crops and raising animals for food, wool, and other products.

• Question 151:

  The problems associated with land tenure through inheritance include the following except

  Options:
  A) small land holdings for family members
  B) hatred among family members arising from land sharing
  C) right of individuals to free use and control of inherited land
  D) difficulty to sell part of inherited land
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 152:

  In surveying, the instrument used to measure horizontal, vertical angles and planes is the

  Options:
  A) gunters chain
  B) prismatic compass
  C) ranging poles
  D) theodolite.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 153:

  Financial assistance from government to the farmers is usually in the following forms except

  Options:
  A) loan
  B) tax
  C) credit
  D) susidy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 154:

  A female cattle which has not had a calf or developed into the mature form of a cow is referred to as

  Options:
  A) stag
  B) vealers
  C) yealing
  D) heifer
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 155:

  Farm surveying equipment include the following except

  Options:
  A) Abney level
  B) Compass
  C) Spade
  D) Gunter's chain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 156:

  Cultural practices can be classified into the following except

  Options:
  A) pre-planting operations
  B) planting operations
  C) post-planting operations
  D) in-planting operations
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 157:

  Elastic demand is the type in which a change in price

  Options:
  A) brings about greater change in quantity of goods demanded
  B) of a commodity leads to little or no change in demand
  C) leads to equal change in commodity demanded
  D) may not change the demand of quantity of commodity.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 158:

  The study of insect pests of crops is called

  Options:
  A) entomology
  B) pathology
  C) agronomy
  D) synecology
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 159:

  Rural farmers mostly obtain loans from

  Options:
  A) Government
  B) International Monetary Fund
  C) Merchant Banks
  D) Money Lenders
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 160:

  The kind of tillage method most suitable for maize is

  Options:
  A) zero tillage
  B) minimum tillage
  C) maximum tillage
  D) contour ridges
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  The correct answer is B .