Summary

• Description:

  The PDF document comprises KALA Joint Trials Agriculture Paper 2 2025 Mock Exam with Marking Scheme.

  It is a KCSE Agriculture Paper 2 (Theory) (443/2) trial examination.

  • Duration: 2 Hours
  • Total Marks: 90
  • Number of Questions: 30 (Questions 1–30)
  • Marking Scheme: The marking scheme is in a different document.

  It covers the following topics:

  • Livestock breeds, selection, and management (pig breeds; drift vs pen lambing; flushing; raddling; signs of farrowing)
  • Farm structures and construction (advantages of wood; siting of farm structures; dairy shed hygiene/white washing)
  • Animal health and parasites (intermediate hosts; scours in calves; disease spread; rinderpest; tick control measures)
  • Poultry production and egg quality (qualities of market eggs; battery cage system; incubator practices; causes of stress in poultry)
  • Beekeeping (functions of a queen bee)
  • Farm tools, equipment, and mechanisation (categories of tools; animal-drawn implement parts/functions; tractor water-cooling system maintenance)
  • Livestock production economics (fixed vs variable costs in dairy production)
  • Feed formulation and nutrition (colostrum feeding; creep feed qualities; Pearson’s square/DCP ration formulation; balancing chick mash)
  • Fish farming (parts of a fishpond and management practices)
  • Reproduction and breeding (bull reproductive system parts/functions; diseases controlled through artificial insemination)
  • Tillage and implements (functional differences between disc plough and mouldboard plough)
  • Digestibility and feeding efficiency (factors affecting digestibility of feeds)
  • Livestock handling and marketing (reasons for handling livestock; Kenya Meat Commission carcass grades)
  • Fencing and farm protection (demerits of live fences)
• Category:

  Mock Past Papers
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  AGRICULTURE

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