BECE Agricultural Science 2016 Paper 3 Past Questions

Agriculture is important to the national economy because it provides _______

Which of the following forms of agriculture deals with the keeping of bees?

The movement of Fulani herdsmen and their animals from one place to another for survival is termed _______farming

A dicotyledonous plant possesses

Which of the following crops is a biennial crop?

The part labelled A in the diagram below is called _______.

Which of these is an industrial raw material?

White Fulani Cattle is referred to as a "dual perpose breed" because it is kept

Rabbits are referred to as "non-ruminants" because they

The meat from goat is known as _______.

The possession of gills by fish enables it to _______

The most common weed of pastures in Nigeria is _______.

Weeds are difficult to control in the farm because

Which of the following herbicides will be applied on the farm after the planted seeds have germinated and established?

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A farmer planted cassava at a spacing of 1m × 1m, what will be the plant population on 1 hectare of land?

Wage is a reward granted to _______

WHich of the following factors of production can be used as collateral for securing loan from the banks?

The purpose of erecting farm structures and buildings by a farmer is to

The storage structure represented in the diagram below is a _______.

The housing facility for bees is called

Farm offices are commonly maintained through the following ways except

A farmer sowed 380 seeds of maize on his farmland, out of which 82 did not germinate. Calculate the percentage germination of the maize seeds he planted.

The type of propagation illustrated by the diagram below is known as vegetative propagation by _______.

Farmers prefer asexual propagation to sexual propagation because

The part labelled G on the diagram is known as _______.

The attachment of earthworm to the part labelled F on the fishing tool is aimed at _______

The following are post-planting operations except

The best time to apply fertilizer in a farm is after weeding because it _______

Which of the following statements is true about supplying in crop production? It is the replacement of seeds that

A farmer chose his yam plot, tilled it and selected his yam seedlings in the early hours of the day. If he later treated the selected seedlings, planted and covered the mounds with dry grasses after three days, which of the activities performed by the farmer was a post planting operation?

When Tomatoes planted in a school farm are harvested and stored before they mature, the fruits will _______

Which of the following is true about straw? It

Which of the following farm animals should be allowed to creep feed?

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Farm animals can be infected with diseases through the following means except

Which of the following diseases can be transmitted to poultry by stale feed and water?

A poultry farmer was advised to dispose all his sick old stock and sanitize the poultry house before the arrival of his new purchased stock, what might be the reason for the advice? To _______

Viral diseases of animal are mainly controlled by _______

If a rural fisherman from Delta State on a particular day in July harvested large quantity of fishes from the nearby river with the intention of selling them two weeks after.Which of these preservative methods will best be adopted by him?

If a rural fisherman from Delta State on a particular day in July harvested large quantity of fishes from the nearby river with the intention of selling them two weeks after.which type of fishing tool would have been used to harvest the large quantity of fishes?

Which of these fishes belongs to cartilaginous family?

Forest trees serve as wind break on farmland because it _______dt encroachment

Which of these Nigeria vegetation zones has the least rainfall in a year?

The vegetation zone that is most appropraite for livestock grazing is _______

Farm produce are generally preserved for the following reasons except

A farmer received high price for his farm produce because he used high quality materials to package them unlike the previous years when he was using local materials to package. Therefore, he planned to continue using quality packaging materials for all his produce.
Which of these packaging materials would he use to package his tomatoes?

A farmer received high price for his farm produce because he used high quality materials to package them unlike the previous years when he was using local materials to package. Therefore, he planned to continue using quality packaging materials for all his produce.
Which of these produce will he preserve in a crate?

When the quantity of mango supplied to the market is more than the quantity demanded by consumers, the market price of mango will

When the price of cabbage is high and the demand is low, there will be