Agricultural Science Questions and Answers
A comprehensive list of Agricultural science questions with answers to help you prepare for JAMB, WAEC, NECO, Post UTME exams.
A comprehensive list of Agricultural science questions with answers to help you prepare for JAMB, WAEC, NECO, Post UTME exams.
The main objectives of agriculture is
Income generation
Provision of employment
Food production
Provision of shelter
Correct answer is C
The main objective of agriculture is to produce food for the general human population.
20.14%
25.00%
33.33%
60.00%
Correct answer is C
Mass of fresh soil = 180g
Mass of over dried soil = 120g
Mass of water = 180g - 120g = 60g
% of Water = 60g/18og x 100
= 1/3 x 100 = 33.33%
Never adopters
Late adopters
Early adopters
Innovators
Correct answer is C
Early adopters are less quick to accepting innovations which might be largely due to some of the aforementioned factors. If percentage of these set is as low as 10% then such innovation has not been uniformly accepted maybe due to hitch during demonstration or the idea is too complex to understand.
______ introduce new ideas of farming seen in other places to their dwelling.
Innovators
Early adopters
Late adopters
Never adopters
Correct answer is A
Innovators introduce new ideas of farming seen in other places to their dwelling. Due to inexperience or error they might suffer losses and can be encouraged by giving expert advice, granting credit facilities, providing and subsidizing farm inputs, granting insurance cover, providing market for sale of produce.
The following are categories of farmers based on adoption of innovation except
Innovators
Early adopters
Late adopters
Never innovators
Correct answer is D
Never innovators does not belong to the categories of farmers based on adoption of innovation.