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HORTICULTURE SS1 - Quiz
  • 1. Mechanical harvesting is mostly used in ______
A) Home gardens
B) Large commercial farms
C) School gardens
D) Small backyard gardens
  • 2. Cleaning and grading of crops occur during ______
A) Planting
B) Pre-harvest
C) Post-harvest
D) Harvest
  • 3. Which crop is commonly harvested by pulling?
A) Mango
B) Cocoa
C) Orange
D) Onion
  • 4. Digging fork is mainly used for harvesting ______
A) Flowers
B) Root crops
C) Fruits
D) Leaves
  • 5. One advantage of manual harvesting is ______
A) Expensive
B) Causes damage
C) Requires machines
D) Allows selection of ripe crops
  • 6. Harvesting should be done when crops reach ______
A) Maturity
B) Flowering
C) Germination
D) Seed stage
  • 7. Which of these is a mechanical harvesting machine?
A) Harvester
B) Hoe
C) Cutlass
D) Knife
  • 8. Post-harvest activities include all except ______
A) Sorting
B) Planting
C) Storage
D) Packaging
  • 9. Cassava mosaic disease is caused by
A) virus
B) bacteria
C) nematode
D) fungi
  • 10. Tiny worms that attack plant roots are known as
A) nematodes
B) insect
C) fungi
D) bacteria
  • 11. Crop rotation helps to
A) spread diseases
B) destroy crops
C) prevent diseases
D) increase pesticides
  • 12. Which of the following records shows daily farm activities?
A) Farm diary
B) Book keeping record
C) Credit record
D) Hometory record
  • 13. Farm records help farmers to
A) plan future operations
B) A and B
C) avoid harvesting
D) forget past activities
  • 14. Farm records are important because they
A) A and C
B) Encourage farming
C) improve efficiency
D) reduce productivity
  • 15. The use of natural enemies to control pest is called__
A) Chemical method of pest control
B) Cultural method of pest control
C) Mechanical method of pest control
D) Biological method of pest control
  • 16. One major importance of farm records is that they
A) reduce farm size
B) Farmer's popularity
C) make farming difficult
D) help in loan application
  • 17. Crop rotation, timely planting, proper spacing of crops, hand weeding are examples of ___
A) Chemical method of weed control
B) Biological method of weed control
C) Cultural method of weed control
D) Mechanical method of weed control
  • 18. ___ are unwanted plants that grow among cultivated crops
A) Thinning
B) Staking
C) Weed
D) Pruning
  • 19. Black pod disease is a disease associated with ___
A) Yam
B) A & B
C) Cashew
D) Cocoa
  • 20. the following are ways of preventing crop diseases except__
A) Proper spacing of crops
B) Planting disease resistant varieties
C) Application of fungicide and bactericide
D) crop rotation
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