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Instructions
1) This paper consists of 28 Questions.
2) Answers all the questions in the spaces provided.
3) Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing.
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8. Give four reasons of carrying out land preparation before planting a crop. (2 Marks)
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9. Name any two types of organic manures. (2 Marks)
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10. a) Differentiate between a straight fertilizer and a compound fertilizer. (1 Mark)
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b) A piece of land requires 200kg of P2O5 per hectare. The available fertilizer is SSP which
contains 20% P2O5. Calculate the amount of SSP fertilizer a farmer requires for the piece
of land. Show your working. (3 Marks)
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15. State four factors that determine the amount of water consumed by an animal. (4 Marks)
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16. Give two physical differences between the Jersey and Friesian cattle breeds. (2 Marks)
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18. The diagram below shows the digestive system of a ruminant animal. Study it and answer the
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a) Name the parts labeled; (2 Marks)
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b) Give one function for each of the parts labeled B and C above. (2 Marks)
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20. The diagrams below illustrate farm tools. Study them and answer the questions that follow.
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a) Identify the tools labeled E, F, G and H. (2 Marks)
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b) Give one use for each of the tools above. (2 Marks)
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c) State three maintenance practices of tool labeled G. (1 ½ Marks)
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21. a) Outline four effects of internal parasites in livestock production. (4 Marks)
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b) Name two vectors of livestock diseases. (1 Mark)
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c) State six general methods of disease control in livestock. (6 Marks)
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22. a) Give four reasons of keeping livestock healthy. (4 Marks)
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24. a) State the meaning of the term scarcity as used in Agricultural Economics. (1 Mark)
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b) Give one use of keeping marketing records in a farm. (1 Mark)
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25. State five ways in which a farmer can improve soil structure in the farm. (5 Marks)
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26. State any four post-harvest practices carried out on a crop produce before storage. (2 Marks)
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AGRICULTURE FORM TWO –
MARKING SCHEME
SECTION A
1. Determinants of depth of crop planting
- Type of soil
- Type of germination
- Soil moisture content
- Size of seed (2 x 1 = 2 Marks)
2. i) Levelling
- Facilitates uniform seed germination (1 Mark)
ii) Rolling
- Practice of compacting the soil which is fine or loose to prevent loss of seeds and soil.
(1 Mark)
3. Advantages of drip irrigation
- Can be practiced in both flat and hilly land
- Applies chemicals with water
- Allows fertigation
- Restricts weed growth
- Less water is used (4 x ½ = 2 Marks)
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- Biological weathering (3 x ½ = 1 ½ Marks)
8. – Kill pests
- Kill weeds
- Improve aeration, water infiltration
- Break soil clods
- Allow root development
- To make subsequent operations possible e.g. planting, rolling, leveling, fertilizer
application, ridging. (4 x ½ = 2 Marks)
9. – Compost manure
- Farmyard manure
- Green manure (2 x 1 = 2 Marks)
10. a) Straight fertilizer – Has only one major nutrient while compound fertilizer has two or
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more major nutrients. (1 Mark)
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Amount of SSP = 200Kg P2O5 x 100 = 1000Kg
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14. i) Cabbage pests – Cabbage, saw fly, aphids, diamond back moth, nematodes, cut worms.
(2 x ½ = 1Mark)
ii) Cabbage diseases – Black rot, Damping off seedlings (2 x ½ = 1 Mark)
17. a) Digestibility – Amount of feed retained in animal’s body after taking care of losses
through dung, urine. (1 x 1 = 1 Mark)
c) - Protein concentrates
- Carbohydrates concentrates (2 x 1 = 2 Marks)
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18. a) A – Rumen / Paunch
B – Reticulum / Honey Comb
C – Omasum / Many Plies / Book
D – Abomasum (4 x ½ = 2 Marks)
b) Functions of B
- Proteins breakdown into A.A, NH3, peptides
- Synthesis of A.A. from NH3.
- Absorption of A.A. and NH3.
- Chunning and mixing of food with water.
- Breakdown of cellulose by micro organisms / bacteria into volatile F.A. and CO2.
- Synthesis of vitamins B complex, D, K. (1 Mark)
Functions of C
- Absorption of water
- Breaks coarse food particles into fine particles (1 Mark)
c) - Ruminants are polygastric / has four stomach chambers, non-ruminants have one
stomach chamber / monogastric
- Ruminants chew cud, non-ruminants don’t chew cud.
- Ruminants lack salivary amylase, non-ruminants have salivary amylase / ptylin
- Ruminants have micro-organisms in the rumen, non-ruminants have no micro-
organisms.
- Ruminants have alkaline saliva, non-ruminants have neutral saliva.
- Ruminants breakdown cellulose, non-ruminants don’t breakdown cellulose
- Ruminants regurgitate food, non-ruminants don’t regurgitate food.
(5 x 1 = 5 Marks)
19. Maintenance ration is the daily feed allowance per animal in correct amount and proportion
meant to maintain the animals life without increasing or decreasing in weight. (1 Mark)
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20. a) E – Straight slot screw driver ( ½ )
F – Halter ( ½ )
G – Watering can ( ½ )
H – Pruning shears ( ½ )
c) Maintenance of G
- Clean after use
- Proper storage
- Repair broken parts e.g. handle, rose
- Unblock the rose when blocked (3 x ½ = 1 ½ Marks
b) Vectors – Tsetseflies
- Ticks (2 x ½ = 1 Mark)
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- Proper housing
- Slaughtering / Killing
- Control vectors
- Treat sick animals
- Deworming / Drenching
- Use of prophylactic drugs
- Foot trimming (6 Marks)
b) - Environment
- Age
- Animal species
- Body conformation
- Animal breed
- Overcrowding
- Sex
- Change of weather
- Body conditions e.g. fatigue, pregnancy, etc
- Animal movement
- Animal breed (5 x ½ = 2 ½ Marks)
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- Nymph moults into adult
- Adult feeds on host
- Adults mate on the host and females drop to the ground to lay eggs
(6 x ½ = 3 Marks)
b) - Rotational razing
- Fencing of pastureland
- Ploughing of pasture field
- Liming of pasture field
- Pye-greasing spraying with acaricides / dipping in acaricide solutions
- Hand picking / deticking
- Self licking
- Burning of pasture fields (5 x 1 = 5 Marks)
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- Dusting / Seed dressing
- Packaging
- Sorting and grading
- Threshing / Shelling
- Cleaning (4 x ½ = 2 Marks)
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