Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises BOKAKE Cluster Examinations Agriculture Paper 1 2025 Mock Exam with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  It is an End of Term Two Agriculture Paper 1 (443/1) examination.

  • Duration: 2 Hours
  • Total Marks: 90
  • Number of Questions: 23 (Questions 1–23)
  • Paper Structure: Three sections (A, B and C). Answer all questions in Sections A and B. In Section C, answer any two questions.
  • Marking Scheme: The marking scheme is in a different document.

  It covers the following topics:

  • Methods of farming and factors of production in agriculture
  • Crop production practices: optimum plant population, maize row planting, cabbage pests, and blossom end-rot in tomatoes
  • Agroforestry: meaning, qualities of good green manuring plants, and characteristics of ideal agroforestry tree species
  • Land issues: title deed information, land reform implementation, and challenges of nomadic pastoralism in Kenya
  • Soil and water: micro-catchments, soil erosion factors, soil types/texture and related experiments, and sources of underground water
  • Water management: drainage importance, irrigation selection factors, and types of farm water pumps
  • Pest and weed control: integrated pest management, physical pest control methods, herbicide spraying safety precautions, and weed identification/control
  • Farm business and economics: variable vs fixed costs in poultry production, GDP and per capita income calculations, and how agriculture boosts GDP
  • Tea establishment: plucking table formation methods
  • Crop propagation: identifying propagation methods from diagrams and factors promoting root formation
  • Pasture and livestock management: advantages of rotational grazing
  • Cooperatives: principles governing formation of cooperatives
  • Soil fertility: ways soil loses fertility and field production of Napier (elephant) grass (seedbed preparation and utilization)
• Category:

  Mock Past Papers
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  AGRICULTURE

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