Explanation

(a) (i)  Benefits of keeping bees;

• Honey production/food    
• Employment/job creation     
• Prevention of extinction of bees    
• For research / education   
• Kept for protection/security/defense 
• Kept as hobby/leisure
• Bee sting is medicinal   
• Source of foreign exchange
• Bees are pollinating agents of crops   -   
• Source of raw materials/propolis/wax/royal jelly
• Income generation/high marketability   
• Biodiversity/maintenance of ecosystem  

(ii) Steps involved in establishing an apiary;

• Site selection/identification of a suitable location=      
• Clearing of the site/create a stand
• Installation of beehive/set up a beehive  
• Bait the beehive/stock the beehive with bees
• Inspection for colonization/rebaiting/restocking
• Set up warning signs

(b)  (i)  Ways of enhancing the productivity of a pig farm;

• Ensure proper sanitation   
• Minimize food wastage
• Give good quality feed/balanced  
• Pest control
• Ensure proper record keeping      
• Rear good quality breeds
• Provision of adequate water     
• Brooding of piglets
• Regular deworming     
• Provision of good housing
• Provision of wallowing facility    
• Vaccination
• Training of farm workers    
• Control of pests
• Good breeding programme/control of inbreeding
• Culling of diseased/unproductive/aggressive animals
• Sell at an appropriate age/adopt good marketing strategy
• Control disease/prevent disease outbreak/biosecurity/isolation of sick 
• animals
• Administration of drugs

(ii) Management practices carried out on piglets from birth to weaning;       

• Isolation of sick piglets      
• Giving of iron injection
• Clipping of needle teeth      
• Use of guard rails
• Allowing access to plenty of water    
• Ensuring good sanitation     
• Prevention of crushing/creep feeding  
• Provision of veterinary care
• Provision of nutritious/balanced diet   
• Fostering of orphaned piglets
• Proper identification of animals    
• Provision of straw as bedding at early age
• Cutting of umbilical cord and apply a tincture of iodine
• Castration of males not required for breeding
• Clearing of mucous from the nostril
• Allowing access to colostrum/regular breastfeeding

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