Majority of the candidates could not:

• give the characteristics of agricultural systems in West Africa;
• explain the ways in which land tenure systems affect agricultural production;
• explain primary and secondary tillage implements;
• state the precautions a farmer should take when spraying chemicals;
• list the ways in which nitrogen is lost from the soil;
• state the importance of the Nitrogen cycle;
• explain the processes leading to the formation of nitrate from organic matter in the Nitrogen cycle;
• describe the mode of formation of sedimentary rocks;
• list the features of natural pastures;
• calculate the population of the legume at one seed per stand and the expected plant population;
• give the ways in which stylosanthes gracilis is important in agricultural production;
• explain terms such as steaming up, culling; candling, weaning, tattooing and creep feeding;
• discuss the effects of temperature on brooding of chicks, reproduction in livestock, milk production and egg production;
• explain the law of diminishing returns;
• discuss how factors such as price, weather, technology, subsidy and government policy affect the supply of agricultural produce;
• state how the law of diminishing returns affect agricultural production.