Student’s Name :_________________________________________________________________

AGRICULTURE

PAPER II
(60 marks)

INSTRUCTIONS Time Allowed: 1h 30min

1. This paper contains 5 pages. Please Question Tick if Do not write in

number answered these columns
check.
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2. Answer all questions in spaces provided.
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3. Write your Name on all pages. 4

4. In the table provided on this page, tick 5

against the question number you have
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answered.
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5. At the end of the examination, hand in
your paper to the invigilator

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 (60 marks)

1. You are provided with specimen P and Q

a. Which type of feedstuff do specimen P belong?
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b. State two reasons why it is necessary to feed lambs less than two weeks old
specimen Q and not specimen P.
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c. Mention two exotic breeds of cattle that are mainly kept for production of
specimen Q.
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d. Explain how enterprises that produce specimen P and Q can be complimentary
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e. Mention any one importance of giving specimen P to ewes two days before
mating
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f. Mention two products which can be produced by specimen Q
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g. Mention one agro-based industry that can produce the products in 1 f. above.
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2. Table 1 shows growth rate of bean seedlings. Use it to answer questions that
follow

DAYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Seedlings 17 25 30 36 50 64 82 96
Growth from
Rate plump
(mm) seeds
Seedlings 14 16 22 25 30 33 49 56
from
shrunken
seeds

a. Draw a line graph with two curves, one on seedlings from plump seed,
the other from seedling from shrunken seeds (9 marks)
b. From the graph
i) Give the mean shoot length of each set of seedlings after 5 days of
germination
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 ii) Describe the growth rate of seedlings from plump and shrunken
seeds within the first day of germination
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iii) Explain why there is a difference in the curves on the graph after day
4
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iv) State any three conditions which should have been held constant
during the experiment
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v) State one conclusion you would make from the results to why it is
necessary to select seeds before planting.
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3. A farmer growing 4 hectares of beans kept the following records
- Cost of 10 hoes at K300
- Cost of bean seeds at K5,000
- Cost of hiring a lorry to carry seeds at k2,000
- Cost of spraying Marathion at K1,500
- Cost of buying CP sprayer at K5,000
- Permanent labour, 8 people at K2,000 each per month
worked for four months
- Casual labour K6,000
- The yield of shelled beans at K2,200 kg/hectare
- The price of shelled beans at K60 per kg.
- Sale of bean haulms to compost manure making farmer
K3,000

a. Calculate the gross margin

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b. Find the profit
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4. Table 2 below shows a wrong randomised block design of an experiment on
maize variety trial conducted by students at a certain secondary school. Use it
to answer questions that follow:

Block 1 Block II Block III

Plot 1 NSCM 41 MH 16 NSCM 41
Plot 2 Local maize MH 12 Local maize
Plot 3 MH 16 Local maize MH 12
Plot 4 MH 12 MH 16 MH 16

a. i. Mention two mistakes in the experimental design

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ii. Using the information in the table, layout the field plan for the
randomised block design
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b. Apart from randomisation, explain two other ways which students could
have made the results more reliable
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c. Explain two main methods which the students could have used to correct
the data in the experiment
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d. Explain two ways in which the results in the experiment can be analysed
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5. a. The table below shows the marketing cost for one goat. Use it to answer
questions that folIow

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Marketing channel level Charges Marketing price
1.Farmer level K1,000
Thyolo ---
2. middle man
- transport K500
- Profit K1,200
3. Butcher
- storage K400
- transport K250
- profit K1,500

i. Calculate the price received by the butcher

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6. Calculate the seed rate of a grass that has the following specifications
- Seed size = 200,000 seeds/kg
- Purity percentage = 80
- Germination percentage = 40
- Expected plant population = 800,000 plants/ha

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