The plan below represents the survey of a farm. Use it to answer questions (a) and (b).
(a) Calculate the area of the farmland.
(b) If the farmland is planted with banana at a spacing of 4 m x 4 m, what will be the population of banana plants on the farm?
(c) Study the diagrams labelled I and II below and answer the questions that follow.
(i) Name the tools labelled I and II.
(ii) State two uses of each of the tools labelled I and II.
(iii) State one general way of maintaining the tools labelled I and II.
The diagrams below illustrate pests of crops. Study them and answer the questions that follow.
(a) Name each of the pests labelled I, II and III.
(b) Describe the life cycle of the pest labelled I.
(c) State four damages caused by the pest labelled III on crops.
(d) Enumerate four ways of controlling the pest labelled IV.
The diagram below illustrates the reproductive parts of livestock. Study it carefully and answer the questions that follow.
(a) Name the parts labelled I, II, III, IV, V and VI.
(b) State one function of each of the parts labelled I, II, III, IV, V and VI.
(c) To prevent indiscriminate mating in the herd, a farmer decided to carry out a management practice to alter the functioning of the parts illustrated above.
(i) Name the management practice.
(ii) Name the two main parts of the illustrated diagram that would be of utmost benefit to the farmer in carrying out the management practice named in (c)(i).
(a) State seven ways in which agriculture is important to the economy of West Africa.
(b) Give two advantages of each of the following sources of farm power:
(i) internal combustion engine;
(ii) electricity;
(iii) wind.
(c) State five operations in poultry production which could be carried out through the use of
electrical power.
(a) State six problems of agricultural development in West Africa.
(b) Explain each of the following farm practices:
(i) crop rotation;
(ii) mixed farming.
(c) State three advantages of each of the following farm practices:
(i) crop rotation;
(ii) mixed farming.
