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