Summary

• Description:

  The PDF document comprises KALA Joint Trials 2024 Agriculture Paper 2 Exam with Answers and Marking Scheme. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  It was a KCSE Agriculture Paper 2 (443/2) Joint Mock examination administered in July 2024.

  • Duration: 2 Hours
  • Total Marks: 90
  • Number of Questions: 25
  • Paper Structure: Three Sections – Section A (Questions 1–18), Section B (Questions 19–21), and Section C (Questions 22–24).

  The paper was structured as follows:

  • Section A (30 marks): Short structured questions covering livestock production, farm machinery, animal nutrition, and farm structures.
  • Section B (20 marks): Diagram-based questions requiring identification, labeling, and explanation of agricultural structures and systems.
  • Section C (40 marks): Essay-type questions where candidates answered any two questions.

  It covered the following topics:

  • Notifiable livestock diseases in cattle
  • Livestock breeds and breed characteristics (e.g., Essex and Wessex saddleback)
  • Digestive system of ruminants and functions of stomach compartments
  • Farm power and machinery including tractor fuel systems and carburetors
  • Internal parasites in livestock such as roundworms and their symptoms
  • Bee keeping and hive management including separation of brood and honey combs
  • Crop storage structures and features of good crop stores
  • Construction tools used in building farm structures
  • Livestock vaccination methods and disease control
  • Livestock breeding objectives and cattle breeding practices
  • Poultry management including control of lice and egg eating
  • Zoonotic diseases and examples affecting humans and livestock
  • Dairy cattle management and artificial calf rearing
  • Farm structures designed to control livestock diseases
  • Methods of harnessing tractor power in farm operations
  • Reasons why ewes may disown lambs
  • Livestock feeding calculations based on body weight
  • Identification and maintenance of tractor-drawn implements
  • Farm building structures such as roof trusses and their components
  • Reproductive system of a cow and functions of reproductive organs
  • Diseases transmitted through natural mating in livestock
  • Nutritional deficiency diseases in livestock and their symptoms
  • Calf scours including causes, symptoms, and control measures
  • Functions of water in animal nutrition
  • Lifecycle of livestock parasites such as the three-host tick
  • Selection of breeding stock in livestock production
  • Identification of poor layers in poultry production
  • Characteristics of Friesian cattle breed
  • Factors influencing the quality of honey in bee production
• Category:

  Mock Past Papers
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  AGRICULTURE

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