 | Better Farming Series 19 - Market Gardening (FAO - INADES, 1977, 56 p.) |
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Suggested question paper
UNDERLINE THE RIGHT ANSWER
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Pimento and gumbo are leaf vegetables |
Yes or No |
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The market gardener should buy selected seeds every year |
Yes or No |
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The vegetable garden should be as far as possible from the house |
Yes or No |
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Thinning out weakens the vegetables |
Yes or No |
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A good market gardener should add well-decomposed manure to the soil of his vegetable garden |
Yes or No |
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Well-packed vegetables do not sell well |
Yes or No |
FILL IN THE MISSING WORDS
When somebody grows ................ mainly for his family to
eat, this is called ...............
Vegetables add to the diet many
.......... and above all many ........
If the field is on a slope, lay out
the.........across the slope.
To prevent a disease attacking all the plants
in the vegetable garden, the farmer must .........and ............ all the
diseased plants.
Snails ............the stems and leaves of vegetables: they
must be .........often.
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
What is the purpose of crop rotation?
Why must the soil be well tilled before sowing?
What is a
nursery bed? Name two vegetables which have to be sown first in nursery beds.
Why is frequent cultivating necessary?
Why is it necessary to mulch the soil and to make shelters for the vegetables in the vegetable garden?
Describe how to disinfect the soil of a vegetable bed.
What should you do when you see snails and insects on the vegetables in your vegetable garden?
By what means can you improve the fertility of the soil in your vegetable garden?
Have you tried to make compost for enriching the soil of your vegetable garden? Describe how you did it.
Make drawings to explain
better.
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