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Form Two Agriculture Question Paper

Form Two Agriculture

Course:Agriculture

Exam Year:2008

FRIENDS SCHOOL KAMUSINGA
KIMILILI

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF AGRICULTURE

FORM 2 TERM 1 CAT 1 2008
DATE: 29/1/2007
TIME: 1½ HOURS

NAME:……………………………………………………ADM NO:………….CLASS:…………..

• Answer all the questions
• Write your answers in the spaces provided on the question paper.

1. (a) State the correct uses of the following Hand tools; (4 marks)
i. Wood chisel

ii. Cold chisel

iii. Marking gauge

iv. Spirit level

b. Name a tool that would be needed in order to use a wood chisel. (1 mark)

c. It is said that Hand tools and equipment should be given proper care and maintenance. Give four reasons to support this statement. (4 marks)

2. (a) Which tractor mounted implement is suitable for cultivating a field with roots and obstacles? (1 mark)

(b) How would hardpans be caused by cultivation? (2 marks)

(c) Give six reasons why it is necessary to cultivate land before planting crops. (6 marks

(d) How would an ox-mouldboard plough be maintained? (4 marks)

3. (a) Briefly differentiate between the following? (3 marks)
i. Soil texture and soil structure.

ii. Counter and back-wheel

iii. Disc plough and disc harrow

b. State five factors that prevent the use of machinery while performing farm operations. (5 marks)

c. State five advantages of practicing crop rotation programmes on the farm. (5 marks)

d. A farmer has four plots. P1, P2, P3 and P4 as shown below. Each of the plots has an agronomic problem as indicated

P1 P2 P3

P4

The farmer intends to grow irish potatoes, peas, maize and Rhodes grass.

(i) Plan a rotation programme for the first year of the rotation system; (4 marks)
Crop Plot
Rhodes grass
Irish potatoes
Peas
Maize

(ii) State a reason for each crop for being placed in the plot shown above. (4 marks)
Rhodes grass

Irish potatoes

Peas

Maize

4. (a) State four reasons why grafting is considered to be an aspect of crop improvement.(4 marks)

(b) Name the vegetative part of each of the following crops which is propagated (4 marks)
(i) Pyrethrum
(ii) Oranges
(iii) Pineapples
(iv) Bananas

(c) State any four advantages of vegetative propagation in crop propagation. (4 marks)

5. Outline the procedure of testing soil pH of soil sample in a laboratory. (8 marks)

6. Describe how you would make a round handle for a jembe measuring 85cm long and 3cm thick from a branch of a tree. (5 marks)

7. (a) State the advantages of adding manures to soils on agricultural fields. (5 marks)

(b) How does the ay phosphatic fertilizers dissolve in water benefit a farmer who applies them. (1 mark)

(c) A student planted 70 grains of maize in a warm moist soil at a uniform depth. After one week, 63, seeds had germinated
(i) What was the germination percentage? (2 marks)

(ii) Give any four possible reasons why some seeds did not germinate. (4 marks)

8. (a) State five factors which increase the rate of leaching. (5 marks)

(b) State four reasons why minimum tillage is encouraged in crop production. (4 marks)

9. List five pieces of information that should be kept in the feeding record of a pig enterprise feeding record of a pig enterprise. (5marks)

10. Draw and label a disc plough and state the functions of the labeled parts. (6 marks)

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