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

• Define agriculture, list branches of agriculture and state differences between commercial agriculture and subsistence agriculture;
• Explain farm surveying and state reasons why farm surveying is important;
• enumerate problems facing agricultural development in West Africa;
• Define soil, list its components and state the percentage of soil components by volume; define soil erosion;
• List factors that influence nutrient availability in the soil;
• Explain the roles of factors such as climate, living organisms and topography in soil formation;
• Define the crop rotation terms and crop improvement;
• state reasons why weeds are difficult to control;
• mention effects of diseases on crop production;
• Apply their knowledge of Mendelian laws in calculating the percentage of plants that are:Tall Coloured; Tall White; Dwarf Coloured and Dwarf White;
• Name breeds of rabbits;
• List ecto-parasites of poultry;
• List methods of identification in cattle production;
• state ways of preserving harvested fish;
• Define demand and price elasticity of demand;
• list agents of agricultural marketing.