Majority of the candidates showed an appreciable improvement in their ability to:

• Explain the term agricultural development
• List non-agricultural uses of land
• State ways in which science and technology have contributed to agricultural development through farm structures and animal nutrition
• Give functions of survey equipment (i.e measuring tape, theodolite and ranging pole)
• Define a farmstead
• State objectives of non-governmental organizations involved in agricultural development (i.e. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and West Africa Rice Development Agency (WARDA)
• Give function of parts of the seed drill (i.e seed box, roller, coupling point, seed tube and furrow opener)
• Explain types of soil water (i.e gravitational, capillary and hygroscopic water);
• Give functions of nitrogen in crops
• List symptoms of nitrogen deficiency in crops
• Define inorganic fertilizer
• List methods of fertilizer application
• State ways in which the carbon cycle is important in agriculture
• Name the causal organism of blackpod disease of cocoa
• State symptoms of blackpod disease of cocoa
• State mode of transmission of blackpod disease of cocoa
• List features of weed seeds dispersed by animal, wind and water
• Name the viral disease of cassava
• State the mode of transmission of the viral disease of cassava
• State methods of controlling the viral disease of cassava
• Mention benefits a farmer can derive from using cowpea as an intercrop
• State signs of maturity in maize
• Explain terms used in animal nutrition (i.e balanced ration, supplementary feed, malnutrition and feed stuffs)
• State routine maintenance practices carried out on a fish ponds
• State functions of water in farm animals
• State objectives of animal improvement programmes in West Africa
• Define a profit  and loss account
• Explain terms used in agricultural enterprise (i.e. asset, networth, revenue and liability)
• Define labour in agricultural production
• Distinction between farm record and farm account
• Inventory record and production record
• Explain agricultural extension teaching methods such as group discussion, office calls and use of projected materials