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Candidates Strength
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Majority of the candidates showed an appreciable improvement in their ability to:
- discuss the importance of agriculture under the following headings: foreign exchange, raw materials and food;
- mention international non-governmental agricultural organizations and their main objectives;
- state advantages of sources of farm power such as human, water, electricity, solar
and internal combustion engine;
- give reasons why a farmer should survey a farmland;
- list equipment used in farm surveying;
- state the effects of farm practices on the soil (inorganic fertilizer application,
continuous cropping, flooding and bush burning);
- state ways in which soil water is important to crops;
- list ways by which water is lost from the soil;
- explain animal production terms such as: dipping, culling and quarantine;
- list methods of identifying farm animals;
- define the term diet as used in animal nutrition;
- state factors to consider in formulating diet for a farm animal;
- state merits of co-operative societies in the marketing of agricultural produce;
- explain group and mass methods of agricultural extension and state their merits and demerits.
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