Agriculture Paper 2, WASSCE (SC), 2019

Candidate's Strengths

 

Majority of the candidates were able to:


- explain the roles of government in relation to pest and disease control as well as marketing of agricultural produce;
- classify crops based on their life cycle;
- enumerate the effects of pollution on agricultural lands and ponds;
- state the methods of dispersal of weeds;
- list the components of a typical soil with their percentage volume;
- state the methods of applying inorganic fertilizer to the soil;
- discuss the cultivation of oil palm;
- enumerate ways in which forest resources are important to the economy of West Africa;
- define apiculture;
- perform calculations on depreciation;
- describe demand schedule and supply curve.