Candidate's Strength
The candidates were able to:
- state the differences between subsistence and commercial farming;
- define agricultural ecology;
- state the sources of pollution of agricultural lands and fish ponds;
- define farm surveying;
- state the disadvantages of electrical power;
- define the term land as used in agriculture;
- explain the term staking in yam cultivation;
- describe the nursery practices in cocoa cultivation;
- give the reasons why ornamental plants are important;
- discuss the process of egg formation in hen;
- mention examples of print and electronic media used in disseminating agricultural extension messages;
- state the advantages of group method of agricultural extension;
- explain the term assembling as a marketing function;
- state the symptoms and control measures of maize streak as well as groundnut rosette.